Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light shelf wear. Crease front cover, top corner. Very small tear back cover, at middle. Trade PB. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight and square; text unmarked. Spine creased; pieces of surface missing from cover where price labels removed; corners bumped, edges chipped. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover shows minor wear; name and date inside front cover; underlining and notes on some pages that does not obscure text, light tanning. Other plays: Dirty Hands, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute read more
Description: Good. 0394700163 Vintage 1955 edition (w/ copyright 1976 update noted). Binding square and tight, no spine creasing. No creases. Pages clean and unmarked w/ age-tanning. Shelf/edge wear mostly in form of soiling of cover edges. Ships Immediately from CA. read more
Description: Very Good. 0394700163 Very good condition paperback, Vintage Books edition, 1955, mild shelf wear, 2 spine creases, text is clean and unmarked. Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394700168ISBN:0394700163
Description: Good + No Jacket. 4"X7" This paperback book has a white and color illustrated cover with blue and black lettering on the front and grey and black lettering on spine of the cover. 281 pages. read more
"To be fair, we only read No Exit. No one ever reads The Flies in high school English, though.
No Exit drove me, and I am sure, countless other 15-year-olds to discover that everything they believed could be boiled down to some kind of accessible existentialism. I never read any Nietzsche and I didn't get into any Camus until two years later, but the idea that we are all responsible for what we do- not a God who, if he existed, has abandoned us- and not taking responsibility is the worst sin anyone can commit? This spoke to a very deep and angsty part of me. I didn't know it at the time, but this play did so much for shaping my belief system and giving a language to what I felt. On some level, I am still a snotty 15 year old who feels like a fairly shallow reading of a pretty fantastic play can summarize this feeling that I have had for most of my life while still not requiring me to look any further. It's kind of all I needed."
"A wonderful, brief, entertaining play that's brilliantly misanthropic and hysterical all at the same time. Sartre coins the phrase, "Hell is other people" and this phrase, while also summing up a philosophy, ironically sums up the plot, as well.
Meet Garcin. He's dead. And in hell. And he's joined soon by Inez and Estelle. Both are also dead. And in hell. Garcin asks the valet (because hell has some services apparently) when the torturer will arrive. And thus the long joke of the drama begins: we don't need a torturer because we have each other!
The characters are wonderfully fleshed out and interesting. Although the drama is extremely brief, the characters feel real and developed, and as the drama progresses, the reader learns more about the reasons why each character is in hell and a little more of their personal story."
"I first read this play in high school, and I might not have read it since.
Years later, I still enjoy Sartre's portrayal of people in a hell that consists only "other people" and their refusal to leave their crowded little room. Each of them needs something from one of the others, forming a vicious triangle of love and hate that never will be satisfied. When given the chance to leave the room - into a blinding light of unknown consequence - their need and fear root them.
It's a great play about a miserable situation, and is worth re-reading."
"I read several of the plays in this book, and enjoyed them all. No Exit is definitely thought-provoking, and was discussed with my book club. Its interesting to get an existential interpretation of Hell. I'd say its worth a read, plus its short.
Respectful Prostitute. I found this play interesting and frustrating. A story about racial tensions, class divisions, and "patriotism", this play will both arouse pity and annoyance towards the characters. Its kind of like the play Chicago where you hate the corruption that is revealed, but you know that stuff really goes on...
The Flies. This is not Euripides' Orestes! About the avenging of Agammemnon's death by Orestes, this play raises good questions about guilt and human freedom (in a Neitzschean sort of way). Definitely a good read if you've read the original Orestes."
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