Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Les mots Les mots Jean-Paul Sartre The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success"[cita… OL15857649W
Looking for the stranger Looking for the stranger Alice Yaeger Kaplan "A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and i… OL20035882W
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée Simone de Beauvoir A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French… OL260382W
The Philosophy of Rousseau The Philosophy of Rousseau Ronald Grimsley This book concentrates on the exposition of Rousseau's principal ideas, dealing first with his criticism of society in the two *Discourses* and the *Letter to d'Alembert*, and then with his construct… OL5913191W
Teilhard Teilhard Mary Lukas,Ellen Lukas A biogrpahy of the theologian/scientist/philosopher who became famous for his archeological research and for his efforts to reconcile religion and science through a synthesis of evolutionary theory a… OL6336196W