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The Age of Reason

by Jean-Paul Sartre · 1945

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The first fully Existentialist fiction by the creator of a philosophical movement that captured the world's imagination. Sartre's dramatic power & intellectual originality combined to produce a key literary achievement. This is the first novel of a trilogy originally published in France as Les chemins de la liberte, 1. L'age de raison.

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medium · 300 pages

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