Simone de Beauvoir wrote works of philosophy, novels, memoirs, essays, short stories, and journal articles. Her best-known work is The Second Sex (1949), a classic of contemporary feminist literature. Others of her works include the treatise The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), the novel The Mandarins (1954), and Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958).
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