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Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention.
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Grave, prestige, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Simone de Beauvoir
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 430
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg, World Pub. Co., Norton
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- French, Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9783499113109
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“FRANCOISE raised her eyes.”
French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, the lifelong companion of [Jean-Paul Sartre][1] and vice versa. Beauvoir's two volume treatise [Le deuxième sexe][2] (1949, The Second Sex) is among the most widely read feminist works. ([Source][3].) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/a/OL896456A/Jean-Paul_Sartre [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL767937W/Le_deuxie%CC%80me_sexe [3]: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beauvoir.htm
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