Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. New Directions Paperbook. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor creasing on spine. No creases on covers. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. New Directions Paperbook. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 5th
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, corner bump, front upper right corner of the book has been bent forward(both covers, all pages), pages age toned a bit, and other light shopwear. Includes the title story and "The Room, " "Erostratus, " "Intimacy" and "The Childhood of a Leader. " read more
Description: Good. B000QB6OJO Paperback with moderate shelf-wear, creases, rubbing, fraying, tears, smudges, stains, fading, chipping and bumping to the cover, edges, corners, and spine. Binding is tight and square. Inside pages are free from underlining, note taking, and/or highlighting. Some pages show light moisture contact but the book is perfectly readable. Book is in stock and ready to ship same or next business day. Select Expedited shipping and receive your book within 3-5 business days. Buy with ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good+, pages are clean, the fore corners of appx.15 are creased as are the wraps; wraps have a small amount of sticker damage. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. New Directions Paperbook. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Twenty-Fifth Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: N.D.
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Good with no dust jacket. 0811201902. Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall; 144 pages; Trade Size Paperback, No Dust Jacket, Book Shows Little Wear. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. 144 p. New Directions Paperbook. five stories included in this collection-"The Wall, " "The Room, " "Erostratus, " "Intimacy" and "The Childhood of a Leader" read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1969-06-01
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
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Edition: FIRST EDITION.
Binding: 8vo. Red cloth spine with gilt titles and black and white
Publisher: A New Directions Book., New York.
Date Published: 1948.
Description: Near very good. Spine slightly faded with few spots of discoloration. Light wear to corners. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Franklin Library, Franklin Center PA
Date Published: 1981
Description: Fine. A Fine hardback Limited Edition in Full blue leather binding with raised bands spine, gilt lettering spine, gilt decoration spine and covers, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark. 8vo. 195 pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1969-01-17
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Good. All books in Acceptable-Good condition. Books may NOT include Online Access Codes (InfoTrac, MyEconLab). Books MAY contain highliting/bent pages. We ship M-F. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780811201902ISBN:0811201902
Description: Very Good. Would be like new but for small nick at bottom spine, all pages clean-no notes/highlights/marks-covers otherwise in great shape. read more
"I tried to read 'the age of reason' long time ago. I give up because its so hard to digest. this book contains his short stories, maybe I will survive this, hehe
*update* he has good techniques, he blends naturally into another character, never can I find him acting like he knows everything, like any other novelist. I read the stories and find it stressing and gloomy. This is a high class art, maybe too classy for me, it didn't attract my emotion. Its like when you like your mom's omelette better then the chef's cooked at five starred restaurant. ;D
*update* it seems like a man, with obscure words just like he was on the phase of daydreaming. At first I thought of him as a depressed cynical man, but miraculously, that all satire becomes a lovely story when I finished reading. Truth to say, this is a very worth to read book, a masterpiece."
"If all five short stories, included in this book, have such level of mastery and strength as titular story this would be one of the most splendid examples of literature. But, sadly, this collection of short stories is rather inconsistent. "The Wall" itself ia a haunting travel into inner life and experience of a man condemned to death, brilliant in its depiction of the smallest impulses of human psyche in this extreme (of course, borderline in existentialist meaning) situation and striking in its furious attempts to understand (or maybe to approximate) the meaning of nonexistence. It's simply a masterpiece of philosophical literature. This story hasn't lingering philosophical meditations of "Nausea", but with all its strictly "belletristic" characteristics it catches true essence of Sartre's existentialist philosophy even better. Then comes "The Room" which is a kind of morbid and dark tale of insanity, understanding and love. It is very interesting and by no means bad, but it lacks the depth of "The Wall". If that was the end of this short stories' collection my rating would be obviously five out of five. But this book has three more stories. "Erostratus" is not very convincing story of a preoccupied with sexual deviations of violent nature misanthrope intended to kill six random people, "Intimacy" is simply meaningless and awful history of sexual life of a frigid (not exactly - she can obtain sexual pleasure but only through masturbation) woman with her impotent husband and her doubts of whether must she leave her husband for her macho-like lover or not (yes, it can be mistaken for some kind of a strange chick-lit, and this sums it all up). The final short story ("The Childhood of a Leader") is better than these two, but the depiction of protagonist's thoughts as child is unpersuasive and even primitive. It has good moments and nontrivial thoughts thrown in but not enough to the point of being masterpiece. All in all, this book is a rather mixed bag but the fact that "The Room" obviously deserves a read and titular story is a work of genius secures this book's place in the "outstanding work of fiction" category."
"Wow the first two stories are amazing. i got hung up on the 4th (of 5) stories, "Intimacy." It annoyed me so much i couldn't read it. I really couldn't stand it, it reminded me of Anais Nin or something, bleah. But the first 2 stories are unforgettable, maybe two of the best stories I have ever read."
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