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.

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…