"A Dangerous Liaison" tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes-painful story of how two brilliant freethinkers, lovers, and rivals came to share a relationship that lasted more than 50 years. This is the first dual biography of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sarte.
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Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell. Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apric[...]

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that[...]

New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Simone de Beauvoir, the great French philosopher and mother of feminism. When Simone de Beauvoir was a little girl, her father would proudly boast that she had the brain of a man - whatever that meant. [...]

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live for ever. But, as he recounts the story of his existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement [...]

Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, "e;One is not born, but rather becomes, a[...]

Age and aging are pressing social-political issues. Yet, philosophers still have not paid sufficient attention to one of the major explorations of this topic, Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work The Coming of Age (1970). For much too long, it has been overshadowed by her other groundbreaking work, The[...]

Boka er en kritisk fremstilling av Simone de Beauvoirs liv og virke. Den spenner fra en historisk-sosiologisk analyse av det franske utdanningsvesenets rolle i hennes liv, til nærlesninger av hennes tanker om kjærlighet, begjær og seksualitet i romanene, biografiene og i "Det annet kjønn". Med k[...]

Denne boka er forfatterens filosofiske hovedverk. Her avslører hun tenkingen om kvinnen som det annet kjønn, slik den har fått eksistere fra primitive kulturtrinn til våre dagers vestlige sivilisasjon.[...]

Det frisinnete kjæresteparet Francoise og Pierre, møter den unge kvinnen Xaviére. Et trekantforhold innledes mellom dem, og sjalusi oppstår. Romanen gir et tidsbilde av Paris på slutten av 1930-tallet, med krigstrussel, bohemliv og personlige, politiske og kunstneriske dilemmaer som viktige sti[...]

Julen 1944: Paris har befriats och andra världs­kriget kommer snart att vara slut. Efter fyra år av underjordisk kamp kan franska motståndsrörelsen äntligen börja att se framtiden an.

Chefredaktören för tidningen L'Espoir, Henri Perron, längtar efter att få ge sig ut i Europa i[...]