Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Beauvoir Simone de)(Paperback / softback)

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (De Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback)

'[Beauvoir's] graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman.' --TimeA superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Beauvoir Simone de)(Paperback / softback)

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 on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the

Simone de Beauvoir (Appignanesi Lisa)(Paperback)

Simone de Beauvoir was a member of the intellectual elite of philosopher-writers whose feminist ideas revolutionised conventional thinking. She is known primarily for her monumental work: The Second Sex, (1949) a scholarly and passionate seminal work, which became a classic of feminist literature

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (Kirkpatrick Kate)(Paperback)

'One is not born a woman, but becomes one', Simone de BeauvoirA symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think

What Is Existentialism? (De Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback)

The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good

Mandarins (Beauvoir Simone de)(Paperback / softback)

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

Letters To Sartre (Beauvoir Simone de)(Paperback / softback)

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the letters reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent but Simonealso as vulnerable, passionate, jealous and

The Second Sex (De Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback)

Simone de Beauvoir's essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of 'woman,' and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were

Woman Destroyed (Beauvoir Simone de)(Paperback / softback)

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 loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved

A Very Easy Death (De Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback)

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence' (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this

Inseparable: A Never-Before-Published Novel (De Beauvoir Simone)(Pevná vazba)

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship From the moment Sylvie and Andr e meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are

Clergyman's Daughter (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in

Second Sex (de Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback / softback)

'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risque book that became a runaway

Wartime Diary (Beauvoir Simone De)(Paperback)

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

Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-29 (Beauvoir Simone)(Pevná vazba)

Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27--before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre--the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy,

Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) (de Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and

Poetry of Birds - edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Light in the Mourning: Memoirs of an Undertaker's Daughter (Lenmark Margo)(Paperback)

The Coming of Age (De Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback)

What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love but instead castigate and avoid? Most importantly, how is our treatment of this generation a reflection of our society's values

El Segundo Sexo = The Second Sex (Beauvoir Simone De)(Paperback)

Es una de las obras fundacionales del Feminismo y utiliza los conceptos existencialistas para indagar acerca de la vida de la mitad de la humanidad. El segundo sexo es considerado hoy la 'Biblia del feminismo,' la obra de referencia, especialmente de la corriente denominada 'feminismo de la

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Russell Legacy)(Paperback)

A new manifesto for cyberfeminism Simone de Beauvoir said 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.' The glitch announces: One is not born, but rather becomes, a body. The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. What must we do to work out

Big Ideas for Little Philosophers: Equality with Simone de Beauvoir (Armitage Duane)(Board book)

Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years (Body N. O.)(Paperback)

Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years N. O. Body. Translated by Deborah Simon. Preface by Sander L. Gilman. Afterword by Hermann Simon 'This is a very interesting and beautifully written memoir by somebody who would have been called a hermaphrodite in the nineteenth century. The work gives a fascinating

All Men Are Mortal (De Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback)

He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of