Jean Paul Sartre: The Wall [2018] paperback Condition:New As the body count mounts

As the body count mounts and events spiral exponentially out of control

who yearn for a wiser and more meaningful world

from Paddington

a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestation

Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman

Jean Paul Sartre: The Wall [2018] paperback Condition:New As the body count mountsFirst published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is told he will be spared if he can betray the whereabouts of a fellow Republican. This leads him to question his cause and his loyalty, as the mental torment that