The Reprieve

The Reprieve

infobox Book |
name = The Reprieve
title_orig = Le Sursis
translator = Eric Sutton


image_caption = Cover of the 1992 English edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Reprieve", Vintage Press edition.
author = Jean-Paul Sartre
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = The Roads to Freedom
genre = Novel
publisher = Gallimard, Knopf, Vintage
release_date = 1945
english_release_date = 1947
pages = 464
isbn = ISBN 0-679-74078-3 (Vintage)
preceded_by = The Age of Reason
followed_by = Troubled Sleep

"The Reprieve" ("Le sursis" in the original French) is a 1947 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.

It is the second part in the trilogy "Les chemins de la liberté" ("The Roads to Freedom"). It concerns life in France during the eight days before the signing of the Munich Agreement and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938.


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