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Anais Nin
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous…
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Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.
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Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she…
A collection of erotic short stories which capture a moment of pure desire, in its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.
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Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman’s sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller…
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘What did she expect of him…
Vol. 3 has imprint: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World; v. 4-7: New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
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Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans…
The first diary in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker Anais Nin’s own words.
Leonie Bischoff
In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Anais Nin, one of the best-known authors of women's…
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"A collection of the writings of Anaeis Nin"--
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Weaving a sensual web of deceit…
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anais Nin’s first work of fiction. Based on Nin’s dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator’s subconscious as she…
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Benjamin Franklin V
"This updated and expanded guide to Anaeis Nin's fictional characters is a companion to anyone studying or reading her work"--
These conversations come from a variety of sources, reprinted from magazines or newsletters, and a few from publications that are still relevant today.
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A bridge between the early life of Nin and the first volume of her Diary. In pages more candid than in the preceding diaries, Nin tells how she exorcised the…
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Beginning with Nin’s arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of…
A charming and amusing view of Nin’s early life, from age eleven to seventeen; the self-portrait of an innocent girl who is transformed, through her own insights, into an enlightened…
Nin continues her debate on the use of drugs versus the artist’s imagination, portrays many famous people in the arts, and recounts her visits to Sweden, the Brussels World’s Fair…
Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: The Sealed Room focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; The Cafe brings…
In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence’s death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her…
Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anais Nin…
The final volume ends as the author wished-not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous, reflective moment on a trip to Bali. One of the most…
In the winter of 1951-52, Anais Nin was a writer in despair. More than a dozen publishing houses had rejected her new novel, A Spy in the House of Love…
Drawn from her original, uncensored journals, this is an intimate account of Anais Nin’s sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year–from 1931 to the end of 1932.
First Swallow Press/Ohio University Press edition 1979 –T.p. verso.
Anais Nin,Nin
Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
NIN INEDITA
La mejor introduccion a la obra de una autora admirada por lectores y escritores de ayer y de hoy: dieciseis relatos apasionantes
Antes de Lena Dunham, estuvo Anais…
Noel Riley Fitch,Margo Finch,Margo Finch
She was a lover who scandalized the world with her tangled affairs and a writer whose erotic chronicles defined sexual liberation for a generation of women. Although her famed diaries…
Raphael
For readers unfamiliar with her subject, Maryanne Raphael’s biography, Anais Nin, The Voyage Within, is a sensitive, uncomplicated introduction to the life and work of one of the 20th century’s…
Philip K. Jason
Though she published several novels, short fiction and erotica, Anais Nin is best known for her captivating diary, which commanded more attention in unpublished form than her published fiction. The…
Kim Krizan
Nin’s importance as a feminist and visionary is finally revealed. Based on a new examination of long-buried letters, papers, and original manuscripts held at UCLA and found in Nin’s Los…
Kazim Ali
Melding scholarship with artistic reflection, Anais Nin: An Unprofessional Study guides readers through the movements and architectures of Nin’s writing. This dense, melodic book combines critical essays with concepts for…
Philip K. Jason (Royalty Account)
An assessment of the critical response to Anais Nin over the past 60 years.
This is a book of essays on Anais Nin’s achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin…
Paul Herron
Since 1966 when Anais Nin visited Japan after the US publication of her Diary, Japanese scholars have been studying, analyzing and translating Nin's work. Little known abroad, Japanese Nin studies…
Clara Oropeza (Santa Barbara City College, USA)
Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nin’s creative process inclusive of psyche, language, the body and aesthetics derived from Nin’s life experiences. This book maps Nin’s literary craft…
Recollections of Anais Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her.
Traces Nin’s creative process inclusive of psyche, language, the body and aesthetics derived from Nin’s life experiences. This book maps Nin’s literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and…
Tristine Rainer
A Revealing Look at the Mentorship-and Manipulation-of Anais Nin
365 quotations from the work of diarist/novelist Anais Nin (1903-1977). The book is divided into five categories (Lust for Life, Love and Sensuality, Consciousness, Women and Men, Writing and Art)…
