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  • Diary of a Philosophy Student

    Volume 2, 1928-29

    by Simone Beauvoir ...
    Series Book 2 - Beauvoir Series
    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, and literary works.Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Second Sex

    by Simone De Beauvoir ...
    Translated by Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ...
    The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —VogueThis unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Is Existentialism?

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'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 and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • The Woman Destroyed

    by Simone De Beauvoir ...
    One of the most influential thinkers of her generationdraws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times).Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ethics of Ambiguity

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom.In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ).A superb memoir 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 ... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very Easy Death

    A Memoir

    by Simone De Beauvoir ...
    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 is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.Translated by Patrick O'Brian ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Image of Her

    A Novel

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Translated by Lauren Elkin ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Simone de Beauvoir’s gripping classic of a woman striving for perfectionLaurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a handsome husband, two daughters, and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though she can’t stop thinking about work while she’s at home and she dreams of domesticity ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Inseparable

    A Novel

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
    A novel of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship from the award-winning French feminist and existentialist, unpublished in her lifetime.Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation PrizeIntroduction by Margaret AtwoodFrom the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Djamila Boupacha

    by Simone De Beauvoir, Gisèle Halimi ...
    A searing denunciation of French torture in Algeria by a classic feminist intellectIn 1960, as the Algerian War for Independence entered its sixth year, 22-year-old Djamila Boupacha was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb in a university cafeteria. While in custody, she was tortured and raped by French soldiers. Her case would have been buried like countless others had it not been for the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Must We Burn de Sade?

    by Simone De Beauvoir ...
    The famous essay that really kicked off the Marquis' restoration. First translated in '53. With numerous selections from his writings. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Second Sex

    by Simone De Beauvoir ...
    Narrated by Ellen Archer, Judith Thurman ...

    Unabridged

    39 hours 9 min

    UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIMESimone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation, and is now available on audio for the very ... Read more

    $37.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook