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A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Classics | 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
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
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Category: Classics | 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
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
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Literary | 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
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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Previously unpublished in the UK, this is Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life.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 by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel -- a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them. 'It is impossible to talk about faithfulness and unfa ...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 Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir
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Category: Philosophy
From the groundbreaking author of TheSecond Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir sThe Ethics of Ambiguitysimultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Fiction
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: Fiction
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