The Woman Destroyed

Informationen zum Autor Simon de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. A close friend of the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Satre, and well-known as a leader of the Existentialist movement in Paris, her novels have won wide acclaim throughout the world. Her famous work, The Second Sex, was hailed as a landmark study of women, and her novels, including The Woman Destroyed and She Came to Stay, have become well-loved classics. She died in 1968. Klappentext First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. Zusammenfassung First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability – in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.

Product details

• Authors: Simone de Beauvoir
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2006
• EAN: 9780007204656
• ISBN: 978-0-00-720465-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Paperbacks; Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Harper Collins Paperbacks; Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary