Simone De Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback Condition:New embellishing

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Simone De Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback Condition:New embellishingA 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