Anaïs Nin

From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review).
Anais Nin pens 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...

 The acclaimed author details her bohemian life in 1930s Paris—including her famous affair with Henry Miller—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...

"A houseboat on the Seine, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, is the home which Djuna, the dancer, makes for Rango, her Guatamalen lover, Bride, mother, companion, mistress of her guitar-playing rebel, Djuna even looks after Rango's wife, Zora, a bitter, sickly, lonely woman, helplessly reliant on Djuna's compassion to keep her husband. Rango's idealistic but ungovernably violent nature, with its angry, masculine intensity, provides a dramatic acceptance...

"A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris." -- "Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst...

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 Caf"̌ brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of the story.

A novella, short stories, a critical study, a preface, and reviews.