Oran, Algeria during 1940's
Dr. Rieux - narrator, fighting plague
Dr. Rieux's wife - away in sanatarium
Tarrou - philosopher caught in quarantine, assists Rieux
Grand - Elder civil servant, wannabe writer
Rambert - journalist trying to escape city to be with lover in Paris
Cottard - paranoid resident with criminal past, failed suicide at beginning
Father Paneloux - preaches epidemic is punishment from God
rats, rats, rats - absurdism - mind set of those not yet affected - changes in philosophy - return to life after plague
Tales of Harper, short stories and poems
about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle
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