num_pages: 300
description: Set in France during the days immediately before World War II, this is the story of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy obsessed with the idea of freedom. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton.
language: English
title: The Age of Reason
titlecomplete: The Age of Reason
characters: Mathieu Delarue
genres: Fiction, France, Philosophy, French Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Unfinished
ratings_count: 14392
places: Paris
series: Les Chemins de la Liberté
publisher: Penguin Books