Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

by Simone de Beauvoir (Author), James Kirkup (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.53

  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 on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $19.49