The Age of Reason
A Novel
$36.02
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
7 July 1992
Summary
The first novel of Sartre’s monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer – even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress’s pregnancy – his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679738954 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679738959 |
| Author: | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Pocket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 1992 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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“Entertaining…the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied.”– Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
“Entertaining…the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied.”– Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
About The Author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, novelist, playwright, and polemicist, Jean-Paul Sartre is thought to have been the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. He is the author of The Age of Reason, The Words, and the play No Exit among other works.
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