Paris. Gallimard. 1958. Hardcover book with vivid book cloth. Book condition: Fine, some fading of book cloth on spine, and tanning at edges of text pages.

Text in French.

An exhaustive autobiography 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 ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.