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All Men are Mortal

Simone de Beauvoir

  • 389 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1946
  • 25 editions
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1 About this book

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live forever.

But, as he recounts the story of his immortal existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement in some of the most significant events in history and how human hope and love have withered in him, she finally understands the implications for him and for love.

  • Fantasy
  • Ancient History
  • Existentialism
  • Immortality
  • Children's fiction
  • Actresses
  • Philosophical literature
  • Immortalism

2 About Simone de Beauvoir

1908–1986

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

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