Simone de Beauvoir

"Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir's life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist's own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith's vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike"--

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it...

Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling...

Collection of stories that draw the reader into the lives of 3 women facing midlife crises.

"From the Dust Jacket: In Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir uses Jean-Paul Sartre's last ten years as a focus for understanding his entire life. Through her eyes, we see an intimate portrait of the man who was widely recognized as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century-the foremost philosopher of existentialism, a Nobel Prize-winning playwright, and a central figure in almost every major philosophical, political, literary,...

An ironic tale of life and love in the French intellectual class.

"Quand il ouvrit la porte, tous les yeux se tournèrent vers lui : - Que me voulez-vous? dit-il. Laurent était assis à califourchon sur une chaise devant le feu. - Il faut que je sache si c'est décidé ou non pour demain matin, dit Laurent. Demain. Il regarda autour de lui. La pièce sentait la lessive et la soupe aux choux. Madeleine fumait, les coudes sur la nappe. Denise avait un livre devant elle. Ils étaient vivants. Pour eux, cette nuit...