Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Author(s): Simone de Beauvoir

Classics

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, 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. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.

General Information

  • : 9780141185330
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin
  • : 0.297
  • : August 2006
  • : 2.4 Centimeters X 13.2 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Simone de Beauvoir
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 843.914
  • : 368
  • : BG