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In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Ana?s Nin, one of the best-known authors of women's…
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Anais Nin
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. Weaving a sensual web of deceit…
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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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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
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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.
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…
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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Anais Nin,Nin
Les lecteurs du celebre Journal d'Anais Nin savent qu'en 1950, a l'instigation d'un mysterieux collectionneur, Henry Miller et Anais Nin ecrivirent deserotiques . Longtemps, ces textes furent mis en…
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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.
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Hourly History
Discover the remarkable life of Anais Nin... Anais Nin was an influential and acclaimed writer best known for her diaries that cover six decades from the 1910s to the 1970s…
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 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…
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…
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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…
From her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear…
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…
Vol. 3 has imprint: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World; v. 4-7: New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
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…
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.
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.
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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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…
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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…
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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…
These conversations come from a variety of sources, reprinted from magazines or newsletters, and a few from publications that are still relevant today.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recollections of Anais Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her.
Clara Oropeza (Santa Barbara City College, USA)
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…
