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Simone de Beauvoir Books In Order

Novels

  1. She Came to Stay (1943)
  2. The Blood of Others (1945)
  3. All Men Are Mortal (1946)
  4. The Mandarins (1954)
  5. The Coming of Age (1970)
  6. Inseparable (2021)

Collections

  1. The Woman Destroyed (1967)
  2. When Things of the Spirit Come First (1979)

Non fiction

  1. The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
  2. The Second Sex (1949)
  3. Must We Burn De Sade? (1955)
  4. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958)
  5. The Prime of Life (1960)
  6. Force of Circumstance (1963)
  7. A Very Easy Death (1964)
  8. All Said and Done (1972)
  9. Adieux (1981)
  10. Letters to Sartre (1991)
  11. Philosophical Writings (2005)
  12. Diary of a Philosophy Student (2006)
  13. Wartime Diary (2008)
  14. Political Writings (2011)
  15. The Works of Simone De Beauvoir (2011)
  16. The Useless Mouths and Other Literary Writings (2011)
  17. An Eye for an Eye (2012)
  18. The Independent Woman (2018)

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Simone de Beauvoir Books Overview

She Came to Stay

‘One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid century.’ New York TimesSet in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Fran oise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavi re catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Fran oise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction. ‘Behind the sympathy there is curiosity…
. A writer whose tears for her characters freeze as they drop.’ Sunday London Times

All Men Are Mortal

Probably de Beauvoir’s strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort. 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 mortality.

The Mandarins

In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life.

The Coming of Age

As the definitive study of the universal problem of growing old, The Coming of Age is ‘a brilliant achievement’ Marc Slonin, New York Times. 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 and priorities? In The Coming of Age, Simone de Beauvoir seeks greater understanding of our perception of elders. With bravery, tenacity, and forceful honesty, she guides us on a study spanning a thousand years and a variety of different nations and cultures to provide a clear and alarming picture of ‘Society’s secret shame’ the separation and distance from our communities that the old must suffer and endure. .

The Woman Destroyed

These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the hero*ine’s serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In ‘The Age of Discretion,’ a successful, happily married professor finds herself increasingly distressed by her son’s absorption in his young wife and her worldly values. In ‘The Monologue,’ a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year’s Eve, pours out a lifetime’s rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe. Enthralling as fiction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

The Ethics of Ambiguity Paperback Simone de Beauvoir Author

The Second Sex

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, and brilliantly introduced by Judith Thurman, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpiece weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to analyze the Western notion of woman and to explore the power of sexuality. Sixty years after its initial publication, The Second Sex is still as eye opening and pertinent as ever. This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman s attempt to find out who and what she was. Drawing on extensive interviews with women of every age and station of life, masterfully synthesizing research about women s bodies and psyches as well as their historic and economic roles, The Second Sex is an encyclopedic and cogently argued document about inequality and enforced otherness. This long awaited new translation pays particular attention to the existentialist terms and French nuances that may have been misconstrued in the first English edition; restores Beauvoir s phrasing, rhythms, and tone; and reinstates significant portions of the Myths and History chapters that were originally cut due to length, including accounts of more than seventy female figures. A vital and life changing work that has dramatically revised the way women talk and think about themselves, Beauvoir s magisterial treatise continues to provoke and inspire.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir’s 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. She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.

A Very Easy Death

When her mother was in the hospital with terminal cancer, Simone reminisced about her mother’s life while Simone and her sister, Poupette, prepared to face the decision of whether to prolong a life when it is full of suffering. Like most people, they believed that it would be better to die than to continue to suffer, but their mother had a very different view of the matter. She truly believed she could find happiness in her own suffering. Through her mother’s beauty, her smile, and her pride in her life and in herself, Simone saw that to be human and to have individual choice are the most important aspects of existence.

Adieux

Paperback, name on inside front and back cover, pages a bit colored, excellent binding and clean inside pages. We ship fast.

Letters to Sartre

Recently published for the first time in France, letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to one of the world’s most acclaimed philosophers shed light on their relationship and her obsessive need to communicate with him.

Philosophical Writings

Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926 27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean Paul Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and literary works. Presented here for the first time in translation and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. The volume represents an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and influence on the world.

Diary of a Philosophy Student

Revelatory insights into the early life and thought of the preeminent French feminist philosopher Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926 27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean Paul Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and literary works. Presented here for the first time in translation and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical and literary significance. The volume represents an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and influence on the world.

Wartime Diary

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.

The Works of Simone De Beauvoir

This collection of classic titles by Beauvoir her most well know writings, The Second Sex and The Ethics Of Ambiguity as well as a biography of her life and a rare interview on her book The Second Sex. French writer and feminist, and Existentialist. She is known primarily for her treatise The Second Sex 1949, a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the eternal feminine. It became a classic of feminist literature during the 1960s. Her novels expounded the major Existential themes, demonstrating her conception of the writer’s commitment to the times. She Came To Stay 1943 treats the difficult problem of the relationship of a conscience to the other . Of her other works of fiction, perhaps the best known is The Mandarins 1954, a chronicle of the attempts of post World War II intellectuals to leave their mandarin educated elite status and engage in political activism. She also wrote four books of philosophy, including The Ethics of Ambiguity 1947. Several volumes of her work are devoted to autobiography which constitute a telling portrait of French intellectual life from the 1930s to the 1970s. In addition to treating feminist issues, de Beauvoir was concerned with the issue of aging, which she addressed in A Very Easy Death 1964, on her mother s death in a hospital. In 1981 she wrote A Farewell to Sartre, a painful account of Sartre s last years. Simone de Beauvoir revealed herself as a woman of formidable courage and integrity, whose life supported her thesis: the basic options of an individual must be made on the premises of an equal vocation for man and woman founded on a common structure of their being, independent of their sexuality. Table of Contents: The Second Sex, On the publication of The Second Sex, interview The Ethics of Ambiguity, Biography

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