A Very Easy Death

Copyright

English translation Copyright © 1965 by André Deutsch Ltd., George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., and G. P. Putnam’s Sons

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in France as Une Mort Très Douce by Librairie Gallimard. Copyright © 1964 by Librairie Gallimard.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908–1986

A very easy death.

(Pantheon Modern Writers)

Translation of: Une mort très douce.

1. Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908—Biography. 2. Authors, French—20th century—Biography.

PQ2603.E362Z4713 1985 848’.91409[B]

84–18920

eISBN: 978-0-307-83219-1

Cover design by Peter Mendelsund

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