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The PlagueBook

by Albert Camus

Who uses, recommends or left The Plague, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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British philosopher and writer; co-host with David Edmonds of the podcast Philosophy Bites; author of Philosophy: The Basics (1992) and A Little History of Philosophy (2011).
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Finally, it may seem a cliché to pick this book, but Albert Camus’s The Plague has justifiably become a bestseller this year.

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American literary scholar and writer; professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, writing on 18th-century literature, etiquette and culture; Guggenheim Fellow from 2005 to 2006.
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Albert Camus’s The Plague probably remains the best-known novel on the topic of epidemic disease.

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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