Books by Anais Nin and Complete Book Reviews
Anais Nin, Author Mariner Books $16 (448p) ISBN 978-0-15-600390-2
This selection from Nin's uncensored diaries portrays her continuing affairs with, among others, Henry Miller and Otto Rank. (June)
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Anais Nin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-15-100088-3
As this gushing, erotically charged journal opens in late 1934, Nin, having left France for New York, records her complex love life with her adoring husband, American banker Hugh Guiler; her psychoanalyst, Otto Rank, whom she seduced; and writer...
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Anais Nin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $28 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-100089-0
A preface by Rupert Pole, surviving widower of the bigamous diarist, who already had a legal husband when they married, contends that she wrote impulsively, at ""white heat."" The evidence is that she often paused to improve upon life, which in the...
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Anaïs Nin, edited by Paul Herron. Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio Univ., in association with Sky Blue Press, $34.95 (428p) ISBN 978-0-8040-1146-4
This volume collects material that Nin (1903–1977) had excised from previous diaries—in particular, volumes 3 and 4—while her husband and lovers were still alive. The diary opens at the beginning of WWII as Nin and her husband, banker Hugh Guiler,...
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Anais Nin, Author, Gunther Stuhlmann, Foreword by Swallow Press $16.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-8040-0981-2
A collection of short stories from the early career of the expatriate diarist, novelist and critic. (Feb.)
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Anais Nin, Author, Rupert Pole, Adapted by, Gunther Stuhlmann, Adapted by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $24.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-15-144366-6
Picking up where Henry and June (1986) left off, this portion of Nin's diary, which was cut from the expurgated editions published in her lifetime, records her steamy love affair with Henry Miller in Paris, but here her intense adoration gives way...
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Anais Nin. Sky Blue, $9.99 trade paper (118p) ISBN 978-0-9889170-9-5
Nin scholars and new readers alike have a lot to delight in with this compilation of fiction from one of modern erotica's most famous founding mothers. Herron's introduction to the collection deftly places Nin's career in perspective while...
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