She came to stay

Simone de Beauvoir

Original title: L'invitée

Translated by Eva Rechel-Mertens earliest edition we have, 1973 Rowohlt, 1991 377 pages

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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 Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up...

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Editions we hold

She Came to Stay edition · 2018 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007384938
La invitada / She Came to Stay paperback · 2010 · Random House Mondadori · 424 pages · 9789875666191
She Came to Stay edition · 2006 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 416 pages · 9780007204649
She Came to Stay edition · 1999 · W. W. Norton & Company · 404 pages · 9780393318845
She Came to Stay (Flamingo) hardcover · 1996 · Flamingo Agencies Ltd · 416 pages · 9780006540809
Sie kam und blieb edition · 1991 · Rowohlt · 377 pages
She came to stay edition · 1990 · Norton · 404 pages
She came to stay edition · 1975 · Fontana · 409 pages
L' invitée edition · 1943 · Gallimard · 502 pages

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