“anais nin”

Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becom... More

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, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June Miller's return to Paris dominates her thoug... More

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 Wee... More

"One of contemporary literature's most important writers."-Newsweek Anais Nin explores passion in all its forms, from two strangers on a moonlit Normandy beach to a woman's sudden fulfillment at a public hanging. Evocative, compelling, superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mys... More

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.This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. " Closer... More

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. 15 duotone photographs.The continuation of the story begun in H... More

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 Cage' brings together a case of characters already familiar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of t... More