num_pages: 368
description: A 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'.
language: English
title: Modern Classics Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
titlecomplete: Modern Classics Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics)
genres: Biography, France, Philosophy, French Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Feminism, Classics, Autobiography, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 14890
places: Paris
publisher: Penguin Classic