{"product_id":"modern-classics-memoirs-of-a-dutiful-daughter","title":"Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSimone de Beauvoir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1908-86) was a French philosopher, novelist and essayist, and the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. De Beauvoir's first book,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eL'Invitée\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was published in 1943. In 1945 she published \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLe Sang des autres\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. De Beauvoir's breakthrough work was the semi-autobiographical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLes Mandarins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1954), which won the Prix Goncourt. Roman Catholic authorities banned it and de Beauvoir's feminist classic\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Second Sex \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1949), in which de Beauvoir argued that \"one is not born a woman; one becomes one\".\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44505491898461,"sku":"9780141185330","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/MemoirsofaDutifulDaughter.jpg?v=1781456552","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/modern-classics-memoirs-of-a-dutiful-daughter","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}