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Memoirs of a dutiful daughter, Simone de Beauvoir ; translated from the French by James Kirkup - pbk
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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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  • eng
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  • non fiction
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  • First Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition.
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  • This translation originally published: World Publishing Co., 1959
  • Translation of: Mémoirs d'une jeune fille rangée
  • Includes index
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  • 365 pages, 21 cm.
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  • 9780060825195
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