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Simone De Beauvoir
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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A Very Easy Death
- Feb-1985
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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 Tele...
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Woman Destroyed
- Aug-1987
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One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald T...
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Witness to My Life
- Apr-1992
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A collection of letters written by Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir offers a candid, provocative study of Sartre's literary, philosophical, and political evolution and of the social and cultural institutions of prewar Europe....
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All Men Are Mortal
- May-1992
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Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort.
He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he... -
The Coming of Age
- Jun-1996
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As the definitive study of the universal problem of growing old, The Coming of Age is a brilliant achievement (Marc Slonin, New York Times). What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they d...
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Transatlantic Love Affair
- Sep-1998
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A collection of letters by the feminist author of
The Second Sex and addressed to her lover, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Walk on the Wild Side, details her life in Paris and the political situation in Europe in the late 1940s... -
The Mandarins
- Jul-1999
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"Salty, frank, and realistic." ― San Francisco Chronicle
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 o... -
She Came to Stay
- Jul-1999
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"One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid-century." ― New York Times
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 s... -
The Ethics of Ambiguity
- Jul-2000
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From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom.
In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Amb... -
Inseparable
- Sep-2021
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A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the myste...
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