| Record Number |
838357 |
| ISBN |
9780393318838 (paperback) |
| 0393318834 (paperback) |
| Author |
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 author. |
| Title |
The mandarins : a novel / by Simone de Beauvoir. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : W.W. Norton, 1999. |
| ©1954. |
| Pagination etc. |
610 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents note |
Translation of: Les mandarins. |
| "First English edition published in the United States in 1956. First published as a Norton paperback 1991; reissued 1999"--Title page verso. |
| Summary Note |
An unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II, fictionally relating the stories of those around her--Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, and Nelson Algren. |
| Subject |
Women -- France -- Fiction |
| Intellectuals -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| France -- Intellectual life -- Fiction |
| Paris (France) -- Fiction |
| Shelf Location |
F BEAU |
