Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir

Title: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Edition: 1975 reprint of the Penguin edition first published in 1963
ISBN: 0140020306
Condition: Second-hand. Acceptable. Covers show heavy overall wear, creasing, rubbing, staining and edge wear, with a pronounced diagonal crease across the front cover. Spine is heavily faded, rubbed and worn, and the page edges show age-toning and handling wear. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

The first volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiography, tracing her childhood in a conventional bourgeois Parisian family, her intellectual awakening and her revolt against the expectations placed upon her as a young woman.

De Beauvoir recounts her education, developing independence and student years at the Sorbonne, placing her personal formation alongside the philosophical and social currents that shaped one of the twentieth century’s most influential feminist and existentialist thinkers.