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A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Biography
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
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by DE BEAUVOIR SIMONE KIRKUP JAMES
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Category: Biography | 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
Misunderstanding in Moscow by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Classics
Previously unpublished in the UK, this is Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life.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
She Came to Stay (US Ed) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Classics
Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Fran oise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavi re catc ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Classics
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: Classics
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: Classics
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 Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-War French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. An epic romance, a philosophical argument and an honest and searing portra ...Show more
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir; H.M. Parshley (Translator)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form 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 'One is not born, but ...Show more
The Second Sex (Vintage Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Critical Thinking
"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
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own des ...Show more
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