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June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. This book tells what men thought and felt and did as France fell.

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A story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. It chronicles Antoine's struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning.

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Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live.

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A useful, concise introduction to Sartre's thinking, Politics and Literature investigates concepts and highlights conflicts, interrogations and debates that remain topical and relevant to this day.

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Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the threat of the coming of the Second World War.

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It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none of them ready to fight.

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First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and only collection of short fiction.

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Hugo, a young Communist Party member, is assigned the task of working for a "deviationist" Party leader, and shooting him. But has he camouflaged a political assassination as a "crime passionel" On his release from prison, he tries to explain to a former comrade exactly what his motives were.

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From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, this volume brings together a collection of Sartrean gems.

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An English translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Roads to Freedom", that explores the interrelations of politics, responsibility; friendship and freedom - themes central to Sartrean existentialism.

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A collection of plays including "Lucifer and the Lord", "Huis Clos", and "The Respectable Prostitute".

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English translations of four plays which dramatize the theme of man's responsibility for his own actions, by the leader of French existentialism.

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The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.

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Philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist, and activist, Jean-Paul Sartre was also-and perhaps above all-a great essayist.

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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. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers, this volume focuses on Jean-Paul Sartre.