After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War, an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for reading and writing. A brilliant work of self-analysis, Words provides an essential background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
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After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War, an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for reading and writing. A brilliant work of self-analysis, Words provides an essential background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
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Very Good. Fawcett Books. No publication date in book. Circa 1976. Copyright 1964. 160 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Paperback. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Small chip at bottom of back cover. Spine has just one light crease. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Fawcett World Library-A Fawcett Premier Book. Originally published in French under the title "Les Mots". Translated by Bernard Frechtman.