The Woman Destroyed

In three "immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion" (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.

Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.

THE AGE OF DISCRETION  •  9

THE MONOLOGUE  •  87

THE WOMAN DESTROYED  •  121