Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Fran?oise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy...
This 1943 novel is about the deterioration of the relationship of a young couple who invite a young girl to stay with them for a prolonged visit. The novel's philosophical underpinning is de Beauvoir's idea that one's individual conscience is compromised by the existence of the...