In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.
In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.
The Woman Destroyed
256
The Woman Destroyed
256Paperback
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780394711034 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 08/28/1987 |
| Series: | Pantheon Modern Writers Series |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Sales rank: | 7,947 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Customer Reviews
Explore More Items
At first glance, Three Lives seems to be three straightforward portraits of women living in the early twentieth century. “The Good Anna” describes an exacting German house servant;
Albert Camus
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing
The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new
Mark Treharne's acclaimed new translation of The Guermantes Way will introduce a new generation of American readers to the
