No Exit ~ Life/Situations: Essays Written and Spoken ~ Sartre on Theatre ~ The Age of Reason

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 and was graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieur in 1929 with a doctorate in philosophy. While teaching in Paris during WWII, Sartre played a role in the French Resistance. His first play, The Flies, was produced in France, despite its message of defiance during the German occupation. In 1964, Sartre declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a small collection of Sartre's works that is often needed for college literature classes. There are plays, essays and one of his novels.