The Reprieve Author:Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most original novelists and thinkers of our age. THE REPRIEVE is his highly dramatic panorama of the eight tragic days in September, 1938, when Europe mobilized for war - of a French official returning from Morocco with a mistress from a jazz band, of neurotic boys and crippled soldiers, of a homosexual and his pre... more »gnant wife - all caught up in the shattering suspense of an unwanted war.« less