Woman Destroyed, Paperback by Beauvoir, Simone de, ISBN 0007204655, ISBN-13 9780007204656, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.