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**When Things of the Spirit Come First** is Simone de Beauvoir’s first work of fiction. It consists of five short stories woven together in a way that is structurally similar to a more traditional novel.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Simone de Beauvoir
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 212
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Rowohlt Verlag, Gallimard
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780233974620
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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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