CAMUS, Albert - The Plague - (Hardcover in Wrapper) - <

A great looking book in a great looking wrapper - small neat ownership on ffep - published by Hamish Hamilton in 1968 

 The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, where individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition. Camus included a dim-witted character misreading The Trial as a mystery novel as an oblique homage. The novel has been read as a metaphorical treatment of the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II.

Whatever that means.