num_pages: 158
description: 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his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War, an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for reading and writing. A brilliant work of self-analysis, Words provides an essential background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Words
titlecomplete: Words
genres: Classics, Autobiography, France, Philosophy, Biography, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 8757
publisher: Penguin Classics