Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - (Perennial Classics) by Simone De Beauvoir (Paperback)

This is a must-read memoir for anyone interested in the life of a fascinating woman who defied convention and pursued her intellectual and existential ambitions with rare determination.

Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling against the expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.

Vividly evoking her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of her most important relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, Beauvoir paints a rich portrait of a turbulent political time.

This is a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.