<div>The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry &amp; June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and others&mdash;including her own father. Ana&iuml;s Nin wrote in her uncensored diaries like they were a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life. In this continuation of her notorious Henry &amp; June, she recounts a particularly turbulent period between 1932 and 1934, and the men who dominated it: her protective husband, her therapist, and the poet Antonin Artaud. However, most consuming of all is novelist Henry Miller&mdash;a man whose genius, said Ana&iuml;s, was so demonic it could drive people insane. Here too, recounted in extraordinary detail, is the sexual affair she had with her father. At once loving, exciting, and vengeful, it was the ultimate social transgression for which Ana&iuml;s would eventually seek absolution from her analysts. &ldquo;Before Lena Dunham there was Ana&iuml;s Nin. Like Dunham, she&rsquo;s been accused of narcissism, sociopathy, and sexual perversion time and again. Yet even that comparison undercuts the strangeness and bravery of her work, for Nin was the first of her kind. And, like all truly unique talents, she was worshipped by some, hated by many, and misunderstood by most . . . A woman who&rsquo;d spent decades on the bleeding edge of American intellectual life, a woman who had been a respected colleague of male writers who pushed the boundaries of acceptable sex writing. Like many great . . . experimentalists, she wrote for a world that did not yet exist, and so helped to bring it into being.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian Includes an introduction by Rupert Pole</div>

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Incest

<div>The second volume of &ldquo;one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Beginning with the author&rsquo;s arrival in New York, this diary recounts Ana&iuml;s Nin&rsquo;s work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients&mdash;as well as her musings over the challenges facing the artist in the modern world. The diary of this remarkably daring and candid woman provides a deeply intimate look inside her mind, as well as a fascinating chapter in her tumultuous life in the latter years of the 1930s. </div>

The Diary of Anais Nin, 1934–1939

<div>The fourth volume of &ldquo;one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). The renowned diarist continues her record of her personal, professional, and artistic life, recounting her experiences in Greenwich Village for several years in the late 1940s, where she defends young writers against the Establishment&mdash;and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. &ldquo;[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann</div>

The Diary of Anais Nin, 1944–1947

<div>Essays, lectures, and interviews&mdash;on everything from gender relations to Ingmar Bergman to adventure travel&mdash;from the renowned diarist. In this collection, the author known for &ldquo;one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&rdquo; shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts (Los Angeles Times). In the opening group of essays, &ldquo;Women and Men,&rdquo; Ana&iuml;s Nin provides the kind of sensitive insights into the feminine psyche and relations between the sexes that are a hallmark of her work. In &ldquo;Writing, Music, and Films,&rdquo; she speaks as an artist and critic&mdash;in book and film reviews, an essay on the composer Edgard Var&egrave;se, a lecture on Ingmar Bergman, and the story of her printing press. In the final section, &ldquo;Enchanted Places,&rdquo; Nin records her travels to such destinations as Fez and Agadir in Morocco, Bali, the New Hebrides, and New Caledonia&mdash;and she concludes with a charming vignette titled &ldquo;My Turkish Grandmother.&rdquo;</div>

In Favor of the Sensitive Man

<div>A &ldquo;lyrical, impassioned&rdquo; document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist). This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers&mdash;Ana&iuml;s Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer&mdash;paints a portrait of more than two decades in their complex relationship as it moves through periods of passion, friendship, estrangement, and reconciliation. &ldquo;The letters may disturb some with their intimacy, but they will impress others with their fragrant expression of devotion to art.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;A portrait of Miller and Nin more rounded than any previously provided by critics, friends, and biographers.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann</div>

A Literate Passion

<div>A revealing look at the life of this &ldquo;extraordinary and unconventional writer&rdquo; during the mid-1920s (The New York Times Book Review). In this volume of her earlier series of personal diaries, Ana&iuml;s Nin tells how she exorcised the obsession that threatened her marriage&mdash;and nearly drove her to suicide. &ldquo;Through sheer nerve, confidence, and will, Nin made of the everyday something magical. This was a gift, indeed, and it&rsquo;s a fascinating process to witness.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor With an editor&rsquo;s note by Rupert Pole and a preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell</div>

The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923–1927

<div>This &ldquo;amazingly precocious&rdquo; diary of girlhood in the early twentieth century is filled with a &ldquo;special charm&rdquo; (The Christian Science Monitor). Born in Paris, Ana&iuml;s Nin started her celebrated diary at age eleven, when she was immigrating to New York with her mother and two young brothers. The diary became her confidant, her beloved friend, in which she recorded her most intimate thoughts and kept watch on the state of her character. Offering an amusing view of Nin&rsquo;s early life, from age eleven to seventeen, it is also a self-portrait of an innocent girl who is transformed, through her own insights, into an enlightened young woman. &ldquo;An enchanting portrait of a girl&rsquo;s constant search for herself . . . will delight her admirers as well as new readers.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;One of the most extraordinary documents in the annals of literature.&rdquo; &mdash;Providence Sunday Journal &ldquo;[The Early Diary is] not merely an overture to the great performance. It deserves our attention on its own as a revelation of the rites of passage of a young girl in the early part of the [twentieth] century and as an expression of the collision of cultures between Europe and America.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell</div>

Linotte

<div>The diarist&rsquo;s account of her life in the early 1920s explores &ldquo;the conflict she felt between artistic longings and her pre-ordained female fate&rdquo; (The Detroit News). Continuing the journey of self-education and self-discovery she began in Linotte, Ana&iuml;s Nin discloses a part of her life that had previously remained private. She discusses the period in which she met Hugo Guiler, the young man who later became her husband, and made the wrenching transition from the shelter of her family to the world of artists and models. She also reveals the struggle she faced between her expected role as a woman and her determination to be a writer&mdash;a negotiation that still poses difficulties for many of us almost a century after Nin wrote this diary. &ldquo;Through sheer nerve, confidence, and will, Nin made of the everyday something magical. This was a gift, indeed, and it&rsquo;s a fascinating process to witness.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor With a preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell</div>

The Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1920–1923

<div>The third volume of &ldquo;one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). This candid volume from the renowned diarist covers her years of struggle, and eventual triumph, as an author in America during World War II. &ldquo;Transcending mere self-revelation . . . the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Proust . . . dream and fact are balanced and . . . in their joining lie the elements of masterpiece.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Just one page of Nin&rsquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann</div>

The Diary of Anais Nin, 1939–1944

<div>The fifth volume of &ldquo;one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author&rsquo;s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with LSD. &ldquo;Through her own struggling and dazzling courage [Nin has] shown women . . . groping with and growing with the world.&rdquo; &mdash;Minneapolis Tribune Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann</div>

The Diary of Anais Nin, 1947–1955

<div>The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author&rsquo;s original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Ana&iuml;s Nin&rsquo;s journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller, as well as a new lover, the Peruvian Gonzalo Mor&eacute;, she also reveals that her most passionate and enduring affair is with writing itself. </div>

Fire

<div>The sixth volume of the diary of &ldquo;one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Ana&iuml;s Nin continues &ldquo;one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&rdquo; with this volume covering more than a decade of her midcentury life (Los Angeles Times). She debates the use of drugs versus the artist&rsquo;s imagination; portrays many famous people in the arts; and recounts her visits to Sweden, the Brussels World&rsquo;s Fair, Paris, and Venice. &ldquo;[Nin] looks at life, love, and art with a blend of gentility and acuity that is rare in contemporary writing.&rdquo; &mdash;John Barkham Reviews Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann</div>

The Diary of Anais Nin, 1955–1966

<div>The seventh and final volume of the author&rsquo;s &ldquo;remarkable&rdquo; diary is filled with the reflections of an older woman as she journeys through the world (Los Angeles Times). &ldquo;One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters&rdquo; ends as the author wished: not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous moment on a trip to Bali (Los Angeles Times). As she ages, Ana&iuml;s Nin reflects on how the deeply personal and introspective nature of her writings intertwines with her public life and her connections with other people, including her devoted readers. &ldquo;One of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann</div>

The Diary of Anais Nin, 1966–1974

<div>This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.</div>

Henry and June

<div> The acclaimed author details her bohemian life in 1930s Paris&mdash;including her famous affair with Henry Miller&mdash;in the classic first volume of her diaries.Born in France to Cuban parents, Anais Nin began keeping a diary at the age of eleven and continued the practice for the rest of her life. Confessional, scandalous, and thoroughly absorbing, her diaries became one of the most celebrated literary projects of the twentieth century. Writing candidly of her marriages and affairs&mdash;including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller&mdash;Nin presents a passionate and detailed record of a modern woman&rsquo;s journey of self-discovery. Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann, this celebrated first volume begins in the winter of 1931 and ends in the fall of 1934. It covers an auspicious time in Nin&rsquo;s life, from when she is about to publish her first book to her decision to leave Paris for New York. </div>

The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931–1934

<div>These 13 erotic short stories by the acclaimed author of Henry and June explore the nature of desire, taboo, and female sensuality. Following her first book of erotic short fiction, Delta of Venus, Ana&iuml;s Nin continues to illuminate the many guises of human sexuality in Little Birds. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive into the turbulent depths of romantic experience. &quot;[It is] so distinct an advance in the depiction of female sensuality that I felt, on reading it, enormous gratitude.&quot;-Alice Walker &quot;One of contemporary literature&#39;s most important writers.&quot;-Newsweek</div>

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