Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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In her memoirs, Simone de Beavoir created a remarkable portrait of a twentieth-century woman's struggle for independence

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, 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. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141185330
Published: February 2001

Number of pages: 368
Width: 130 mm
Height: 200 mm
Depth: 21 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd