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A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Ser.
"A Very Easy Death "has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death "shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence" ("The Sunday Telegraph"). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this i ...Show more
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
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
All Men Are Mortal by Simone De Beauvoir
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
All over the world, people are claiming their rights. Are these claims prompted by similar values and aspirations? And even if human rights are universal, what are the consequences of claiming them in different historical, cultural and material realities? The diversity of African countries considered in ...Show more
All Men are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: Fiction
He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.
Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27 by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: Philosophy and Religion
For the first time in translation and fully annotated, this is the revelatory diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist. Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27-before Beauvoir met Jea ...Show more
Feminist Writings by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Beauvoir Ser.
The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Span ...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)
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
LA BATARD by Violette Leduc; Derek Coltman (Translator); Simone de Beauvoir (Foreword by); Rene de Ceccatty (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: French Literature Ser.
An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B#65533;tarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women.When fi ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by DE BEAUVOIR SIMONE KIRKUP JAMES
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
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: Biography | 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
Category: Classic 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