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Society & Class

Examinations of class, power, and the structures we live within.

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The Red and the Black
Victor Hugo
Ambitious young Julien Sorel, the son of a carpenter in Restoration France, rises through society by means of his intelligence and hypocrisy, only to destroy himself through passion. One of the first great psychological novels.
France 1830
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The Plague
Albert Camus
A bubonic plague descends on the Algerian city of Oran, and the townspeople struggle with confinement, fear, and death. Read as an allegory for the Nazi occupation, it is Camus's fullest statement of solidarity in the face of absurdity.
France 1947
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