The Reprieve

A Novel

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The second novel of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, The Reprieve is set in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. A masterly historical re-creation, it depicts at once the negotiations between the British government under Neville Chamberlain and Nazi Germany and the lives of the French people as the world braces itself for war.
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. View titles by Jean-Paul Sartre

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The second novel of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, The Reprieve is set in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. A masterly historical re-creation, it depicts at once the negotiations between the British government under Neville Chamberlain and Nazi Germany and the lives of the French people as the world braces itself for war.

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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. View titles by Jean-Paul Sartre