Book Series

The Prime of Life

La Force de l'âge

by Simone de Beauvoir

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About The Prime of Life

The second volume of Beauvoir's autobiography (1960), covering 1929–1944 — her years of teaching philosophy, the 1930s in Paris with Sartre, the German Occupation, and the Liberation, including her account of daily life under the Germans and the nature of the pact with Sartre.

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