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  • Inseparable

    A Novel

    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
    A novel of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship from the award-winning French feminist and existentialist, unpublished in her lifetime.Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation PrizeIntroduction by Margaret AtwoodFrom the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Second Sex

    The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —VogueThis unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Ambiguity

    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom.In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    Series series Perennial Classics
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ).A superb memoir 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 ... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Djamila Boupacha

    A searing denunciation of French torture in Algeria by a classic feminist intellectIn 1960, as the Algerian War for Independence entered its sixth year, 22-year-old Djamila Boupacha was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb in a university cafeteria. While in custody, she was tortured and raped by French soldiers. Her case would have been buried like countless others had it not been for the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Must We Burn de Sade?

    The famous essay that really kicked off the Marquis' restoration. First translated in '53. With numerous selections from his writings. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • What Is Existentialism?

    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Diary of a Philosophy Student

    Volume 2, 1928-29

    Series Book 2 - Beauvoir Series
    Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works.Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Independent Woman

    Extracts from The Second Sex

    “Like man, woman is a human being.”When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate the feminine condition and identify practical social reforms for gender equality. It captures the essence ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Second Sex

    Unabridged

    39 hours 9 min

    UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIMESimone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation, and is now available on audio for the very ... Read more

    $50.00 CAD

  • Diary of a Philosophy Student

    Volume 3, 1926-30

    Translated by Barbara Klaw ...
    Series Book 3 - Beauvoir Series
    Written between the age of eighteen and twenty-one, the entries in the third volume of Diary of a Philosophy Student take readers into Simone de Beauvoir’s thoughts while illuminating the people and ideas swirling around her. The pages offer rare insights into Beauvoir’s intellectual development; her early experiences with love, desire, and freedom; and relationships with friends like Élisabeth ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Very Easy Death

    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    When her mother was in the hospital with terminal cancer, Simone had time to reminisce about her mother’s early life, as Simone and her sister, Poupette, prepared to face the decision of whether to prolong a life when it is full of suffering. Like most people, they believed that it would be better to die than to continue to suffer, but their mother had a very different view of the matter. ... Read more

    $19.55 CAD