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Five stories, among them a Republican prisoner in the Spanish Civil War spending the night before his execution, and a bourgeois boy who grows up to be a fascist.
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The Age of Reason
Over two days in Paris in the summer of 1938, Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher who prizes his freedom above everything, tries to raise the money for his mistress's abortion.
A Happy Death
Patrice Mersault, an Algiers shipping clerk, kills a rich, crippled man and takes his money, then sets out to buy the time to be happy.
Exile and the Kingdom
Six stories of exile, among them a French schoolteacher on an Algerian plateau told to deliver an Arab prisoner to the police, and a wife who slips out of her bed at night into the desert.
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Four plays, among them No Exit, in which three dead strangers are shown into a windowless drawing room in hell, and Dirty Hands, about a young communist ordered to kill a party leader.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Ten stories, among them a writer dying of gangrene in an African camp who looks back at the life he wasted, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, about a hunting safari.
The Story of Zahra
Zahra, a young woman scarred by her childhood in Beirut, comes home from Africa as the civil war begins, and starts an affair with a sniper.
Samskara
When Naranappa, a Brahmin who broke every rule, dies in a south Indian village, the other Brahmins can't decide who should perform his last rites, and Praneshacharya, the most learned of them, faces his own crisis.
The Train Was on Time
In 1943 Andreas, a young German soldier on a troop train heading back to the Eastern Front, is certain he will die within days, and counts down the time.
The Woman in the Dunes
A man trapped by a sandstorm in a coastal village is forced to live with a woman at the bottom of a sand pit, shoveling endlessly to keep them both alive.
The Immoralist
Michel, a young scholar who married without love, nearly dies of tuberculosis on his honeymoon in North Africa, and recovers with a fierce new hunger for life and for the boys around him.
The Knot of Vipers
Louis, a rich, embittered old lawyer near Bordeaux, writes a long letter to his wife, to be found after his death, explaining his hatred for the family that is waiting for his money.
The Twyborn Affair
Before the First World War, Eudoxia Vatzatzis lives as the young companion of an elderly Greek on the French Riviera, the first of the lives of Eddie Twyborn, a Sydney judge's son.