num_pages: 607
description: The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's autobiography. In it she continues the story of her life from the age of 21, through the uneasy rebellious 30s, the war years and finally to the liberation of Paris in 1944.
language: English
title: The Prime of Life
titlecomplete: The Prime of Life
genres: France, Biography, Philosophy, French Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens, Feminism, Autobiography, Classics
ratings_count: 1743
places: Paris
publisher: Penguin Classic