The woman destroyed;

BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE

Collins

In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.

The Woman Destroyed

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Fontana Paperbacks

Written by the author of "The Mandarins" and "The Second Sex". The theme of this novel is the superficiality of smart upper-class Parisian life with its Americanized internationalism and its cult of the costly object.

Les Belles Images (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

A Harper Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-war French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. An epic romance, a philosophical argument and an honest and searing portrayal of what it means to be a woman, this is Simone de Beauvoir's most famous and profound novel. De Beauvoir sketches the volatile intellectual and political climate of post-war France with amazing deftness and insight, peopling her story with fictionalisations of the most important figures of the era, such as Camus, Sartre and Nelson Algren. Her novel examines the painful split between public and private life that characterised the female experience in the mid-20th century, and addresses the most difficult questions of gender and choice. It is an astonishing work of intellectual athleticism, yet also a moving romance, a love story of passion and depth. Long out of print, this masterpiece is now reissued as part of the Harper Perennial Modern Classics series so that a whole new generation can discover de Beauvoir's magic.

The Mandarins

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

The autobiography of literary doyenne Simone de Beauvoir.

Biographies & Memoirs

De, Beauvoir Simone

Arts & Literature

Harper&Row

Force of Circumstance Volume 2

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use

All Said and Done

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harmondsworth Penguin

Old age;

HarperCollins Distribution Services

The celebrated feminist and existentialist looks back on her later years, reevaluates incidents in her past, and shares her outlook on life

All said and done

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Deutsch and Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Wartime Diary (Beauvoir Series)

Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scandalous texts that threaten to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir’s life and work. Beauvoir’s account of her clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenges the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, just as her account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when Sartre’s philosophy in Being and Nothingness was barely begun calls into question the traditional view of Beauvoir’s novel as merely illustrating Sartre’s philosophy.
Most important, the Wartime Diary provides an exciting account of Beauvoir’s philosophical transformation from the prewar solipsism of She Came to Stay to the postwar political engagement of The Second Sex. This edition also features previously unpublished material, including her musings about consciousness and order, recommended reading lists, and notes on labor unions. In providing new insights into Beauvoir’s philosophical development, the Wartime Diary promises to rewrite a crucial chapter of Western philosophy and intellectual history.

University of Illinois Press

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