The Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir

The Prime of Life

Beauvoir's Autobiography #2

Simone de Beauvoir with Peter Green (Translator)

479 pages first pub 1960 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Moods

inspiring 83%
reflective 83%
challenging 66%
dark 66%
informative 66%
hopeful 50%
emotional 33%
adventurous 16%
sad 16%
tense 16%

Pace

slow 71%
fast 14%
medium 14%

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