Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex “a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way” ( New York Times ). A superb memoir by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's 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