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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise,
Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for
fleeting romance. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too
much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger
from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man
and soon inspires him to seek her out...
This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her
first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and
with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.
The inspiration for the six-part series "Little Birds" from Sophia
Al-Maria. These thirteen erotic short stories by the acclaimed
author of Henry and June explore the nature of desire, taboo, and
female sensuality. 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. "[It is] so distinct an
advance in the depiction of female sensuality that I felt, on
reading it, enormous gratitude."--Alice Walker "One of contemporary
literature's most important writers.--Newsweek
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 games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
"Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant
naughtiness."-Cosmopolitan
In Delta of Venus Anais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the
characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires
and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a
Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes
with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic
restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named
Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an
extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of
erotic writing.
Anais Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age
to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she was the
author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a
collection of essays, two volumes of erotica, and nine published
volumes of her Diary.
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
turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic
"distillations" of her secret diaries. "A Spy in the House of
Love," whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for
artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and
self-created inhibitions, echoes Nin's personal struggle with sex,
love, and emotional fragmentation. Written when Nin's own life was
taut with conflicting loyalties, her protagonist Sabina repeatedly
asks herself, can one idulge one's sensual restlessness, the
fantasies, the relentless need for adventure without devastating
consequences?
'My real writing was put aside when I set out in search of the erotic. These are my adventures in that world of prostitution' In her first volume of erotic writings, Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin explored the nature of female sexuality. Little Birds is broader in its scope, glimpsing in dream-like fashion the subtle or explicit means by which men and women are aroused. Each of the thirteen vignettes captures a moment of sexual awakening, recognition or fulfilment. Lust, obsession, fantasy and desire emerge as part of the human condition, as pure or as complex as any other of its aspects. Little Birds may be seen as an attempt to create the ultimate sexual encounter or as a depiction of the diversity of sexual needs; as the author herself says, 'The sexual life is usually enveloped in many layers, for all of us . . . It is a veiled woman, half-dreamed'. The first volume of her erotic writings, Delta of Venus, is also published by Penguin.
In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Her second volume of erotic writings, Little Birds, is also published by Penguin.
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.
The intimacy between Nin and Miller, first disclosed in Henry and
June, is documented further in this impassioned exchange of letters
between the two controversial writers. Edited and with an
Introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an
unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters
are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers
of erotic fiction. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the
pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series,
with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary,
international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to
James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to
Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and
disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep
South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest
reaches of outer space.
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A transplant from Vienna to Malibu who is driven by her urge to
observe and depict those around her, Renate is, as one of her
friends describes her, "the freest woman I know." Living in Malibu,
working at the Paradise Inn restaurant, she encounters a series of
people whose stories make up a larger collage: Henri the chef;
Count Laundromat; Varda the artist and his teenage daughter, Nobuko
the actress; the French Consul in the Hollywood Hills; an aged
lifeguard with a spiritual longing for the sea; and Bruce, the
intimate with an unnerving secret. First published in 1964 and now
reissued with a new introduction by Anita Jarczok, Collages
showcases Anais Nin's dreamlike and introspective style and
psychological acuity. Seen by some as linked vignettes and by
others as a novel, the book is a mood piece that resists
categorization. Based on a close friend of Nin's, Renate is the
glue that holds the pieces, by turn fragmentary and full, together.
One character absorbs a lesson from the Koran: "Nothing is ever
finished." With each of Renate's successive encounters, we take
that message to be true.
Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled
Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker
Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be
"the One," the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for
connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as "hell,"
during which she experiences a kind of erotic madness, a delirium
that fuels her search for love. As a child suffering abandonment by
her father, Anais wrote, "Close your eyes to the ugly things," and,
against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the
world's darkness with her own search for light. Mirages collects,
for the first time, the story that was cut from all of Nin's other
published diaries, particularly volumes 3 and 4 of The Diary of
Anais Nin, which cover the same time period. It is the long-awaited
successor to the previous unexpurgated diaries Henry and June,
Incest, Fire, and Nearer the Moon. Mirages answers the questions
Nin readers have been asking for decades: What led to the demise of
Nin's love affair with Henry Miller? Just how troubled was her
marriage to Hugh Guiler? What is the story behind Nin's "children,"
the effeminate young men she seemed to collect at will? Mirages is
a deeply personal story of heartbreak, despair, desperation,
carnage, and deep mourning, but it is also one of courage,
persistence, evolution, and redemption that reaches beyond the
personal to the universal.
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 obsession that threatened her marriage
and nearly drove her to suicide. Editor's Note by Rupert Pole;
Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell; Index; photographs.
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 thoughts.
Anais Nin's "Ladders to Fire" interweaves the stories of several
women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through
self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel
follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to
happiness and wholeness. The author's own experiences, as recorded
in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction.
It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that
transformed one into the other. Nin herself memorably claimed that
"it was the fiction writer who edited the diary."
"Ladders to Fire" is the first book of Nin's continuous novel,
"Cities of the Interior, " which also includes "Children of the
Albatross, ""The Four-Chambered Heart, ""A Spy in the House of
Love, " and "Seduction of the Minotaur." These loosely interlinked
stories develop the characters and themes established in the first
volume, leading slowly toward a resolution of inner turmoil and
conflict.
This Swallow Press reissue of "Ladders to Fire" includes a new
introduction by Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V, as well as Gunther
Stuhlmann's classic foreword to the 1995 edition.
In The Novel of the Future, Anais Nin explores the act of
creation-in film, art, and dance as well as literature-to chart a
new direction for the young artist struggling against what she
perceived as the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy
afflicting much of mid-twentieth-century fiction. Nin offers,
instead, an argument for and synthesis of the poetic novel and
discusses her own efforts in this genre as well as its influence on
the development of such writers as D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller,
Lawrence Durrell, Marguerite Young, and Djuna Barnes. In chapters
devoted to the pursuit of the hidden self, the genesis of fiction,
and the relationship between the diary and fiction, she addresses
the materials, techniques, and nourishment of the arts, and the
functions of art itself. Originally published in 1968, The Novel of
the Future remains a classic among both creative writers and
literary scholars. This new Swallow Press edition includes an
introduction by Nin biographer Deirdre Bair.
"Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream,
some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian's recurrent
dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed
laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets,
had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this
ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.... With her first
swallow of air she inhaled a drug of forgetfulness well known to
adventurers." Seduction of the Minotaur is the fifth and final
volume of Anais Nin's continuous novel known as Cities of the
Interior. First published by Swallow Press in 1961, the story
follows the travels of the protagonist Lillian through the tropics
to a Mexican city loosely based on Acapulco, which Nin herself
visited in 1947 and described in the fifth volume of her Diary. As
Lillian seeks the warmth and sensuality of this lush and intriguing
city, she travels inward as well, learning that to free herself she
must free the "monster" that has been confined in a labyrinth of
her subconscious. This new Swallow Press edition includes an
introduction by Anita Jarczok, author of Inventing Anais Nin:
Celebrity Authorship and the Creation of an Icon. Swallow Press
publishes all five volumes that make up Cities of the Interior:
Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered
Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Seduction of the Minotaur.
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