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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By James , Beauvoir , Simone de;Kirkup

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins;HarperPerennial
ISBN
0060825197, 9780060825195, 9780062566171
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
714 kB (731575 bytes)
Series
Harper Perennial modern classics
Edition
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition
Pages
365 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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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