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Nin, Anaeis
From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and a joyous display of the erotic imagination…
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A collection of erotic short stories which capture a moment of pure desire, in its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.
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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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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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
"A collection of the writings of Anaeis Nin"--
Benjamin Franklin V
"This updated and expanded guide to Anaeis Nin's fictional characters is a companion to anyone studying or reading her work"--
Anais Nin and Lawrence Durrell, along with their mutual friend Henry Miller, formed a triumvirate they called the three musketeers in Paris during the 1930s. Not only did they support…
Anaeis Nin
The Diary of Others is the penultimate volume of a series of Anais Nin’s unexpurgated diaries, which began with Henry and June (1986). When The Diary of Others opens, Nin…
A Joyous Transformation marks the end of Anais Nin's 35,000-page diary, the publication of which began in 1966 with the heavily edited Diary of Anais Nin. It chronicles Nin's final…
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Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
Vol. 3 has imprint: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World; v. 4-7: New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
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…
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…
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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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…
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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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.
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…
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…
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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 first diary in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker Anais Nin’s own words.
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…
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…
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…
First Swallow Press/Ohio University Press edition 1979 –T.p. verso.
Anais Nin,Joaquin Nin
In 1913, Joaquin Nin abandoned his family, including his ten-year-old daughter, Anais. Twenty years later, Anais and Joaquin reunited and began an illicit sexual affair.
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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These conversations come from a variety of sources, reprinted from magazines or newsletters, and a few from publications that are still relevant today.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The author’s experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. [Nin is]…
First published in 1964 and now reissued with a new introduction by Anita Jarczok, Collages showcases Nin’s dreamlike and introspective style and psychological acuity. Seen by some as linked vignettes…
