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Books for the ill literati
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The MandarinsThe Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
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Owner's copy not available online - Autographed 1st Edition, limited to 500 copies of which 325 are for private distribution (paper anniversary gift)
Simone de Beauvoir: A BiographySimone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $1.62
If you don't find yourself sobbing at the end of this biography, you have no soul.
Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul SartreTete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley
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Wonderful. Of course more revealing that the Bair biography.
The blood of othersThe blood of others by Simone de Beauvoir
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Beauvoir beautifully incorporates Sartre's existentialism into this tale of a female member of WWII French Resistance movement. Very good read.
The Age of Reason: A NovelThe Age of Reason: A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
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The best of "The Roads to Freedom" (Troubled Sleep, The Reprieve)
No Exit and Three Other PlaysNo Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
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No Exit is a must read - if only for Sartre's existentialist definitive - "Hell is other people."
Man's Search for MeaningMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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Rivals the Nietzsche/Adler "will to power" and Freud's "will to pleasure". A life changer, if you'll allow it.
The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)
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if you can excuse the misogyny...
The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics) by Franz Kafka
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perspective enhancer
The StrangerThe Stranger by Albert Camus
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perspective enhancer
Happy DeathHappy Death by Albert Camus
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perspective enhancer
Jack Kerouac: King of the BeatsJack Kerouac: King of the Beats by Barry Miles
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makes you wonder if you can still appreciate a writer's work even if he turns out to be ...well...you may not want to read this...
Music for ChameleonsMusic for Chameleons by Truman Capote
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the best of Capote
Capote: A BiographyCapote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke
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interesting. entertaining. what else do you want?
The Most Beautiful Woman in TownThe Most Beautiful Woman in Town by Charles Bukowski
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for once we are allowed to rub Bukowski's soft underbelly, even if it is a bit sticky...