TY - BOOK AU - Sartre,Jean Paul TI - The age of reason SN - 0140015213 AV - PQ2637.A82 A713 1992 PY - 1972/// CY - Harmondsworth PB - Penguin Books KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - France KW - Fiction N1 - Translation of: L'âge de raison N2 - The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense ER -