Perennial Classics Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, (Paperback)

from jonfaith

I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.Living in I...

from KendraRenee

Beauvoir's autobiography (concentrated mostly on her early life) gives one an unblinking, honest look at "high" French society in the early 1900's: its extreme modesty (one can almost say "prudishness"), the male-female disparities (most women were expected, indeed pressured, to marry after reach...

from jonfaith

I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.Living in I...

from baswood

de Beauvoir says towards the end of the first part of her autobiography that she like to talk about her favourite subject - me. I should imagine that she enjoyed writing about herself and she spends many words here in doing just that. Memoirs of a dutiful daughter covers the first twenty years of...

from Cecrow

This memoir precedes Simone de Beauvoir's troubled teaching years, covering her childhood and her own adolescence. I understand she becomes more self-conscious about who she may offend as well as less objective in the subsequent volumes. Under those circumstances, it would be hard to match or bea...