The StrangerA young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character ... |
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... beside your mother's coffin , as no doubt you would wish to do . Just one more thing ; I gathered from your mother's friends that she wished to be buried with the rites of the Church . I've made arrangements for this ; but I thought I ...
... beside your mother's coffin , as no doubt you would wish to do . Just one more thing ; I gathered from your mother's friends that she wished to be buried with the rites of the Church . I've made arrangements for this ; but I thought I ...
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... Besides the nurse on duty , he told me , he and I would be the only mourners at the funeral . It was a rule of the Home that inmates shouldn't attend funerals , though there was no objection to letting some of them sit up beside the ...
... Besides the nurse on duty , he told me , he and I would be the only mourners at the funeral . It was a rule of the Home that inmates shouldn't attend funerals , though there was no objection to letting some of them sit up beside the ...
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... beside me was still yelling away , telling her husband that she'd left a basket for him in the prison office . She gave a list of the things she'd brought and told him to mind and check them carefully , as some had cost quite a lot ...
... beside me was still yelling away , telling her husband that she'd left a basket for him in the prison office . She gave a list of the things she'd brought and told him to mind and check them carefully , as some had cost quite a lot ...
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