The words

Jean-Paul Sartre

Original title: Words

earliest edition we have, 1964 Penguin, 1991 158 pages

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The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success"[citation needed]. In November of the same year, 1964, he refused the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded for his work, described as "rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, [it] has exerted...

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Editions we hold

Slova. Zatvorniki Al'tony hardcover · 2002 · Izd-vo AST · 299 pages
Les Mots / 3 Audio Compact Discs in French audiobook · 2000 · French & European Pubns · 9780685017289
Words (Penguin Modern Classics) edition · 2000 · Penguin Books Ltd · 160 pages · 9780141183466
Sözcükler edition · 1997 · Can Yayınları · 188 pages
Les mots paperback · 1996 · Gallimard · 213 pages
Words edition · 1991 · Penguin · 158 pages
Les Mots paperback · 1990 · French & European Pubns · 9780828837491
Die Wörter edition · 1989 · Rowohlt · 168 pages
The words edition · 1981 · Vintage Books · 255 pages
Les mots edition · 1981 · Methuen · 259 pages
Words paperback · 1979 · Fawcett Books · 9780449307410
Les Mots paperback · 1964 · Gallimard · 213 pages · 9782070257737

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