De befaamde roman Alle mensen zijn sterfelijk van de Franse filosoof en schrijver Simone de Beauvoir is het verhaal van de veertiende-eeuwse Italiaanse edelman Fosca, die niets liever wil dan de wereld overheersen en daarom een onsterfelijkheidselixer drinkt.  Meer

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First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability – in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.  Meer