Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter: an Intimate Autobiography of Intellectual Rebelli

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Item Weight: 2.31 pounds Edition: Reprint Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics ISBN-13: 978-0060825195 Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 1 inches isbn: 0060825197 Publication date: August 2, 2005 ISBN-10: 0060825197 Print length: 384 pages

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter: an Intimate Autobiography of Intellectual Rebelli. “A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” — New York Times 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. Beauvoir 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.