# Words

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- Authors: [Sartre](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-paul-sartre)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2000-07-27

## 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his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date.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.

## Editions

### Words

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-346-6
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2000-07-27
- Language: en_GB