The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre - 1966 Penguin

"This novel by one of France's greatest post-war writers covers two days in the life of Mathieu Delaruee, a teacher of philosophy, and in the lives of his acquaintances and friends. Mathieu is trying to raise money for the abortion of a woman with whom he has been living for seven years, and at the same time he is obsessed with a desire for personal freedom. Individual tragedies and happiness are etched against the Paris summer of 1938, with its night clubs, galleries, students, and cafe society. But behind it all there is a threat, only half-realized at the time, of the coming catastrophe of the Second World War..." - The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated by Eric Sutton. Printed 1966, Penguin Books, Hammondsworth, Middlesex, England Softcover. Approx. 4.5x7in. 299pp. Pages age-yellowed. Otherwise in good vintage condition.