Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

"A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way." --New York TimesA superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth centurySimone 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.Beauvoir 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.

• | Author: Simone De Beauvoir
• | Publisher: Harper Perennial
• | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2005
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0060825197
• | ISBN-13: 9780060825195