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The Woman Destroyed Paperback - 1987

by Simone de Beauvoir

By the world-famous writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir, here are three moving stories which eloquently express her understanding of women and the crises they face in mid-life.


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Simone de Beauvoir--one of the most influential thinkers of her generation--draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three "immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion" (The Sunday Herald Times [London]). Suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." "Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." --The Atlantic

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These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine's serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In "The Age of Discretion," a successful, happily married professor finds herself increasingly distressed by her son's absorption in his young wife and her worldly values. In "The Monologue," a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year's Eve, pours out a lifetime's rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe. Enthralling as fiction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.

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  • Title The Woman Destroyed
  • Author Simone de Beauvoir
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Fifth Printing
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1987-08-12
  • ISBN 9780394711034 / 0394711033
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84001846
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"Witty, immensely adroit . . . These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation."
—The Atlantic

"A remarkable feat of empathy."
—The Times Literary Supplement

"Brilliant craftsmanship." 
— Harper's

About the author

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrgation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second on the exam to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at lyces in Marseille and Rousen from 1931 to 1937, and in Paris from 1938 to 1943. After World War II, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps Modernes. The author of many acclaimed works, de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.

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