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Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

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Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism and Humanism
by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Words
by Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book)
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley