Albert Camus' 'The Plague' is well worth a read these days

'So they've got alarmed  - at last.' The telegram ran: Proclaim a state of plague Stop close the town.

An extract from The Plague by Albert Camus.

Readers not familiar with old-fashioned telegrams, please note that the word Stop was inserted after each sentence - I think.

Recommended reading in the days that are in it.

Camus wrote the book in 1947.

From the jacket of the book:

'The town's people of Oran are in the grip of a virulent plague.

'It's a story of courage and determination against the arbitrariness and seeming absurdity of human existence.'