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A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her terror of death, and as her body fails, she clings to ...Show more
Hard Times - Force of Circumstance - The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir, 1952-1962 by Simone de Beauvoir; Richard Howard (Translator); Toril Moi (Introduction by); Charles Dickens; Richard Howard; Charles Way (Adapted by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle with aging. Beauvoir recounts her difficult long-distance romance with novelist Nelson Algren and her involvement with Claude Lanzmann (the future directo ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by DE BEAUVOIR SIMONE KIRKUP JAMES
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Perennial Classics (Paperback)
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...Show more
Misunderstanding in Moscow by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Fiction
Previously unpublished in the UK, this is Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life. A captivating novella by one of the most important thinkers, writers and feminists of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir.Nicole and Andre, a r ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Fiction
This recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart.The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks with the co ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by de Beauvoir, Simone, Levy, Deborah, Elkin, Lauren, Beauvoir, Sylvie le Bon de
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Category: Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- beautiful flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks w ...Show more
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and ...Show more
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penn ...Show more
The Second Sex (Vintage Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"First published in 1949, The Second Sex is a landmark in the history of feminism. Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir s groundbreaking study of women has had the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a scholarlywork of anthropology and sociol ...Show more
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that 'On ...Show more
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Ser.
Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.