My Life (Two-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
These two volumes present the first installments of Simone de Beauvoir's landmark autobiography, a cornerstone of twentieth century memoir and feminist literature. "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" chronicles her bourgeois Parisian childhood and adolescence, tracing her intellectual awakening and gradual break from the rigid Catholic upbringing imposed by her family, while "The Prime of Life" details her early adulthood, her formative partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, and her emergence as a philosopher and writer against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and the Nazi occupation of France. Together they capture the making of one of the century's most influential existentialist thinkers, offering an essential foundation for any serious collection of Beauvoir's work or twentieth century women's literature.
Author: Simone de Beauvoir; Peter Green
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, RU
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
These two volumes present the first installments of Simone de Beauvoir's landmark autobiography, a cornerstone of twentieth century memoir and feminist literature. "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" chronicles her bourgeois Parisian childhood and adolescence, tracing her intellectual awakening and gradual break from the rigid Catholic upbringing imposed by her family, while "The Prime of Life" details her early adulthood, her formative partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, and her emergence as a philosopher and writer against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and the Nazi occupation of France. Together they capture the making of one of the century's most influential existentialist thinkers, offering an essential foundation for any serious collection of Beauvoir's work or twentieth century women's literature.