The Prime of Life
$24.91
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2025
Summary
The Prime of Life: A Portrait of Simone de Beauvoir
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography, recalls her formative years in Paris as she began to emerge as a public figure.
First published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties, thirties and forties. Beginning as a recent graduate from the Sorbonne teaching high-school girls, we see de Beauvoir revel in the freedom her new f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241705391 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241705398 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | Peter Green, Simone de Beauvoir |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Peter Green
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) was a French philosopher, novelist and essayist, and the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. De Beauvoir’s first book, L’Invitee, was published in 1943. In 1945 she published Le Sang des autres, a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. De Beauvoir’s breakthrough work was the semi-autobiographical Les Mandarins (1954), which won the Prix Goncourt. Roman Catholic authorities banned it and de Beauvoir’s feminist classic The Second Sex (1949), in which de Beauvoir argued that “one is not born a woman; one becomes one”.
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