Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics)

by Simone de Beauvoir

Paperback, 384 pages

English language

Published Aug. 2, 2005 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-082519-5

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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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