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The works of Anaïs Nin
Fiction
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Anais Nin wrote a number of books that together form her continuous novel "Cities of the Interior", these novels
explore the lives of Sabina, Jay, Djuna, and Lillian, with each novel concentrating on one of the characters. However, all of them can be read
separately and in any order.
- Cities of the Interior
contents: Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart
and Seduction of the Minotaur
- Ladders to Fire
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- Swallow Press 1995, Paperback
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- Peter Owen 2003, Paperback 128 pages (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
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This poetic, sensual novel focuses on the lives of a group of women as they undergo a period of emotional and sexual development.
They record their experiences as they struggle to understand both themselves and each other.
- Children of the Albatross
- The Four-Chambered Heart
- Chicago: Swallow Press / Ohio Univ. Press 1959
187 p., ISBN 0-8040-0121-9, Paperback
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- Seduction of the Minotaur
- Denver: Swallow Press / Ohio Univ. Press 1961
with an afterword by Wayne McEvilly, 146 p., ISBN 0-8040-0268-1
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- House of Incest
read many long excerpts and look at the wonderful photomontages by Val Telberg, you will love them
- Denver: Swallow Press / Ohio Univ. Press 1958
photomontages by Val Telberg, 72 p., Paperback, ISBN 0-8040--148-0
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This one is Anais Nin's first work of fiction, she calls it a prose poem and the writing is very lyrical and
poetic indeed.
- A Spy in the House of Love
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- Winter of Artifice
- Chicago: Swallow Press / Ohio Univ. Press 1961
175 p., Paperback, ISBN 0-8040-0322-X
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- Collages
- Denver: Swallow Press / Ohio Univ. Press 1964
Illustrated by Jean Varda, Paperback, 122 p., ISBN 0-8040-0045-X
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- Delta of Venus: Erotica.
These erotic short stories are amongst the finest erotic writing that I have come across, very sensual
and beautiful. The stories were written for an anonymous collector in the 1940s. One of the most beautiful and
intriguing stories is the rather long "The Basque and Bijou".
- Little Birds: Erotica
- New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich 1979
- Pocket Books 1990, Mass Market Paperback
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- Under a Glass Bell
Collected Short Stories. With Engravings by Ian Hugo.
These surrealistic stories first won Anais Nin public recognition through a review by E. Wilson.
- Waste of Timelessness, And Other Early Stories
- Chicago: Swallow Press 1994
Introduction by G. Stuhlmann, 118 p., Paperback, ISBN 0-8040-0981-3
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contents: Waste of timelessness. The song in the garden. The fear of Nice. The
Gypsy feeling. The Russian who did not believe in miracles and why. The
dance which could not be danced. A dangerous perfume. Red roses. Our minds
are engaged. Alchemy. Tishnar. The idealist. The peacock feathers.
Faithfulness. A spoiled party. A slippery floor.
Diaries
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- The Diary of Anaïs Nin
Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann, illustr.
- Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920
with an introduction by Joaquin Nin-Culmell
- New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich 1978, Paperback 1980
(The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1)
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- The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin
with an introduction by Joaquin Nin-Culmell
- Henry and June: From a Journal of Love : The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
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.
- Incest: From "A Journal of Love" : The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin,
1932-1934
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Disquieting yet magnetic, Incest continues the story begun in the best-selling Henry and June to
reveal a woman's struggle to come to terms with herself for the "ultimate transgression"--and to
find salvation in the very act of writing.
- Fire: From "A Journal of Love" : The Unexpurgated Diary, 1934-37
The diary which Anais Nin would eventually call Fire begins when she is newly arrived in New
York City. Chronicling her unfulfilled marriage, affairs with Henry Miller and psychoanalyst Otto
Rank, she confesses to her diary: "I'm awaiting a lover. I'm restless." "Erotically
charged." --Publishers Weekly
Less shocking than Incest (1992), the third volume of Nin's provocative and provoking uncensored diaries finds our madly scribbling
femme fatale in New York, where she's gone to get away from her doggedly loyal husband and from adored lover Henry Miller and
indulge her fancy for analyst Otto Rank. Once again, Nin is blithely honest about her profound dishonesty, admitting that she loves telling
"marvelous lies" to the men who desire her. She tires of Rank just as Miller and her husband catch up with her, then, suddenly, enters a
whole new realm of potent romance with a fiery man of Inca descent, Gonzalo More. More, a man of conscience and lyrical intensity,
inspires Nin to new poetic and mystical heights. These unexpurgated volumes are of particular interest to readers of the original published
versions because they fill in so many puzzling omissions, but they are also remarkable for their audacity and prolificity. Just one page of
Nin's extraordinary diaries contains more sex, melodrama, fantasies, confessions, and observations than most novels, and reflects much
about the human psyche we strive to repress.
CopyrightŠ 1995, American Library Association. All rights reserved
- Nearer The Moon: From "A Journal of Love"
The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1937-1939
with a preface by Rupert Pole and biographical notes and annotations by G. Stuhlmann.
In the fourth volume of her galvanizing unexpurgated diaries, Nin, now in her mid-thirties, achieves a deeper understanding of herself, her
need to keep her infamous diaries, and her complex and demanding relationships with Hugo, her loyal husband; Henry Miller, the cosmic
force in her fervent universe; and Gonzalo More, her most sensual and passionate lover. As Nin tirelessly and eloquently analyzes each man
and what he means to her, she shares luminous and provocative thoughts on the perversity of jealousy, the mystery of eroticism, the
unruliness of love, and the gnawing need to write, to at least make sense, if not art, out of experience. As Nin matures and her journal
deepens, the magnificence of her literary achievement emerges. Nin is the Proust of diary-keepers, and the creator of a revolutionary
psychological documentary of a truly remarkable and unsettling personality.
CopyrightŠ 1996, American Library Association. All rights reserved
Audio and video tapes related to Anais Nin
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- Anais Nin Herself : Read Selections from Her Diaries, 1931-1934/Audio Cassettes
- Published by The Audio Partners Publishing Corporation 1992
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Nin discusses the differences she had with her father, paints a vivid portrait of the experience of childbirth, and describes a voluptuous
female beauty at a women's bath. 2 cassettes.
From her famous diaries Anais Nin (1903-1977) reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her
work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her highly personal
world and paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. Her dreamy descriptions of a Madame
Bovary type village in which lover Henry Miller strolls down the path to her house, a too revealing encounter
with the archetypal father, heartrending sensations of childbirth and loss, and an intoxicating and sensuous
visit to a Moroccan bathhouse are all lyrically transformed into spell-binding stories. This is an extraordinary,
historic, archival, and memorable recording which speaks in a fresh voice to new generations. J.A.
ŠAudioFile, Portland, Maine
- Anais Nin Reads Excerpts from the Diary of Anais Nin/Cassette
- Anais Observed
- Henry & June
The film stars beautiful Uma Thurman as June and Maria de Medeiros as Anais Nin, these two actresses make the film
unforgettable, whereas Fred Ward as Henry Miller and Richard E. Grant as Hugo did not convince me.
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