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    The Woman Destroyed

    Simone De Beauvoir

    Three stories deal with a husband’s adultry, a son’s adoption of his wife’s worldly attitudes, and a lonely, wealthy woman home alone on New Year’s Eve.

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    The Woman Destroyed

    Simone de Beauvoir

    First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women’s vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to…

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    The Second Sex

    Simone de Beauvoir

    ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman’. This book is suitable for those who believe in the equality of the sexes.

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    A Very Easy Death

    Simone De Beauvoir

    In this work Simone De Beauvoir records her mother’s death from cancer. It shows the agonies of a very easy death , the clinical humiliations of a proud woman, and…

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    Simone de Beauvoir

    Karen Green (University of Melbourne)

    Tracing her intellectual development from her university years, when she was trained in a Cartesian and neo-Kantian philosophical tradition, to her final decade, during which she was recognised as having…

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    Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me - a Memoir

    Deirdre Bair

    Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.

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    Misunderstanding in Moscow

    Simone de Beauvoir, Terry Keefe (trans.)

    A captivating novella by one of the most important thinkers, writers and feminists of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir.

    Nicole and Andre, a retired French couple, take a summer…

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    The Ethics of Ambiguity

    Simone De Beauvoir

    Translation of: Pour une morale de l'ambigueitae.

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    A Very Easy Death

    Simone de Beauvoir

    Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother’s death.

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    What Is Existentialism?

    Simone de Beauvoir

    Translation of: Qu'est-ce que l'existentialisme?

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    The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

    Elizabeth Fallaize

    First published in 1988, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir concentrates specifically on the novels of the famous 20th Century French writer, Simone de Beauvoir.

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    She Came to Stay

    Simone de Beauvoir

    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…

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    Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics

    Megan Burke

    Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the life, work and ground-breaking ideas of author, philosopher, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir, and will be of value to…

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    Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics

    Megan Burke

    Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the life, work and ground-breaking ideas of author, philosopher, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir, and will be of value to…

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    The Inseparables

    Simone de Beauvoir

    The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex.

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    Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    Simone de Beauvoir

    A memoir that offers a picture of the author’s growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out…

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    Simone de Beauvoir

    Ursula Tidd

    This work guides the reader through the main areas of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, including: existentialism and ethics; gender studies and feminism; literature and autobiography; and sexuality, the body and…

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    Simone de Beauvoir

    Ursula Tidd

    This work guides the reader through the main areas of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, including: existentialism and ethics; gender studies and feminism; literature and autobiography; and sexuality, the body and…

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    Simone de Beauvoir

    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

    New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the incredible life of Simone de Beauvoir, the great French philosopher, in this true story of her life.

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    Simone de Beauvoir

    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

    Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Simone de Beauvoir tells the inspiring true story of the great French philosopher and mother of feminism.

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    Simone de Beauvoir

    Mary Evans

    Demonstrates the importance to feminism of de Beauvoir’s ideas. This book shows how de Beauvoir’s work resists simplistic readings and cannot be reduced to opposition between masculine and feminine, rational…

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    Simone de Beauvoir

    Mary S Evans

    This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir’s life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir’s work, Mary Evans presents a…

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    The Mandarins

    Simone de Beauvoir

    A Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this examination of post-War French intellectual life, and a chronicle of love and philosophy.

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    Simone De Beauvoir Revisited

    Catharine S. Brosman

    Series Editors: Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas at Austin; Robert Lecker, McGill University; David OConnell, Georgia State University; David William Foster, Arizona State University; Janet PA©rez, Texas Tech University.TWAYNES UNITED…

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    A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

    L Hengehold

    The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic…

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    The Legacy of Simone De Beauvoir

    This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of her most influential book, ‘The Second Sex’.

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    The Legacy of Simone De Beauvoir

    Treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought. This work locates her work in the intellectual and political upheavals that marked Paris in the 1930s and…

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    Autobiografias de Simone de Beauvoir

    Calado Eliana

    Entre 1958 e 1972, a escritora francesa Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) lancou quatro autobiografias, nas quais narrou sua trajetoria, do nascimento a velhice. O presente livro dedica-se a…

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    The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir

    While earlier research considered Simone de Beauvoir in the perspectives of Existentialism or Feminism, this work emphasizes her reflective and descriptive approach and the full range of issues she addresses…

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    Existentialism, Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir

    J. Mahon,Jo Campling

    Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays…

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    Simone de Beauvoir – A Humanist Thinker

    This book is a novel contribution to contemporary research on Simone de Beauvoir, and a defense of the importance of the humanities. It reveals previously unexplored dimensions of Beauvoir’s work…

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    The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir

    While earlier research considered Simone de Beauvoir in the perspectives of Existentialism or Feminism, this work emphasizes her reflective and descriptive approach and the full range of issues she addresses…

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    Existentialism, Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir

    J. Mahon

    This work defends Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialist feminism against the many reproaches which have been levelled against it over several decades, not least the criticism that it is steeped in…

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    Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader

    A classic collection of critical texts on de Beauvoir’s work, as feminist, novelist and philosopher. It provides a much-needed reassessment of her place in twentieth-century culture as well as the…

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    Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader

    A classic collection of critical texts on de Beauvoir’s work, as feminist, novelist and philosopher. It provides a much-needed reassessment of her place in twentieth-century culture as well as the…

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    Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

    Sonia Kruks

    This, the first full-length study of Simone de Beauvoir’s political thinking, both examines Beauvoir in her own politico-intellectual context and demonstrates her originality and continuing significance. Insisting upon the ambiguity…

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    Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity

    Sonia Kruks

    This, the first full-length study of Simone de Beauvoir’s political thinking, both examines Beauvoir in her own politico-intellectual context and demonstrates her originality and continuing significance. Insisting upon the ambiguity…

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    Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction

    Edward Fullbrook,Kate Fullbrook

    aeo This is a very accessible introduction to one of the key figures in contemporary feminist thought. aeo The approach to Simone de Beauvoir is distinctive because it examines her…

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    Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony

    Ursula Tidd (University of Salford)

    This is a full-length study exploring Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays. Ursula…

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    Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times)

    Lisa Appignanesi

    Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own…

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    Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment

    Anne Whitmarsh

    Originally published in 1981, this was the first full-scale study of Simone de Beauvoir, surveying the whole range of her activity. A good deal of the book is devoted to…

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    Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony

    Ursula Tidd (University of Salford)

    This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical…

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    The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

    A convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir.

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    The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

    A convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir.

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    Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy and Feminism

    Nancy Bauer

    In the introduction to The Second Sex , Simone de Beauvoir notes that a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a…

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    Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy and Feminism

    Nancy Bauer

    In the introduction to The Second Sex , Simone de Beauvoir notes that a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a…

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    The Body in the Work of Simone De Beauvoir

    Sarah Fishwick

    This study provides a comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s writings on corporeality. By means of a ‘constructivist’ exploration of the vision of bodily being which is elaborated by Beauvoir…

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    Les Bouches Inutiles

    Simone de Beauvoir

    This play describes the decision by the male rulers of a besieged city to kill its ‘useless mouths’, the women, children and elderly, in order to ensure their own survival…

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