Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort. He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.

An unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her - Jean-Paul Satre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren - de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time.

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."

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.

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, and when asked about her own letters to him, she replied that they had been lost. But after her death, her literary executor and adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon Beauvoir, stumbled upon a parcel of faded letters addressed to Monsieur Sartre.

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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'.

Simone de Beauvoirs Buch über das Alter ragt durch die einzigartige Fülle des ausgebreiteten Materials wie durch die Vielfalt neuer Einsichten und Perspektiven unter allen wissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Abhandlungen dieses Themas heraus.

Mein Werk ist mein Leben", von diesem Motto angetrieben, ließ Simone de Beauvoir ihren Epoche machenden Untersuchungen über die Rolle der Frau und des Geschlechts die eigene Geschichte folgen. In "Memoiren einer Tochter aus gutem Haus" erzählt sie vom ehemals großbürgerlichen Pariser Boulevard Raspail, an dem ihr Elternhaus stand, und von ihrem Weg ins Cafe du Drome, wo sie den Stammgast kennenlernte, der unentwegt an der Pfeife sog und hinter seiner dicken Brille nie aufhörte zu denken: Jean-Paul Sartre. Mit dem Elan einer Schriftstellerin, die selbst neugierig entdecken will, wie sie...