$9.99 THE PORTABLE ANAIS NIN is a beautifully compiled overview of Nin's huge trove of work. Benjamin Franklin V had his work cut out for him, and his wonderfully astute selections are brought together here in this handy e-book that will not only introduce newcomers to the fascination of Anais Nin, but will also excite those of us who've enjoyed her work for years. What a pleasure to re-read Nin via Kindle. It's about time this most progressive of writers entered the digital age! --Kim Krizan

$4.99 Under a Glass Bell was self-published by Anaïs Nin in 1944, using a manual press. This collection of thirteen short stories, beautifully crafted in a style influenced by French surrealism, but uniquely Nin’s, brought her national attention when Edmund Wilson of The New Yorker reviewed it. Considered one of Nin’s most successful works of fiction, the tales attain psychological realism through illusory symbolism. Among the titles are “Houseboat,” “The Mouse,” “Ragtime,” “The Labyrinth,” and “Birth.” Under a Glass Bell is a celebration of the passionate language of Anaïs Nin.

$4.99 Originally published in book form in 1954, A Spy in the House of Love contains some of Anais Nin's best poetic prose. The main character, Sabina, realizes that she is a composite of many selves, each one seeking identity within relationships with five very different men, and while she seeks to live out each part of herself, she also craves unity, setting the stage for the battle for self-awareness. Part realism and part fantasy, A Spy in the House of Love achieves a level of writing that is very rare in the English language.

$3.99 “House of Incest is a strange and challenging work that demands the full attention of the reader. It is not so much a story of people (although it certainly is that) as it is a visit into the hellish nightmare of the narrator's experience from which she emerges satisfactorily. But, however one approaches the work, House of Incest is Nin’s best work of fiction and one that contains most of her basic themes, images and patterns that she would use in her later work.”—Benjamin Franklin and Duane Schneider

$4.99 Ladders to Fire, Anaïs Nin’s first full-length novel, was revolutionary in that it addressed woman’s role in a male-dominated world in the mid-1940s. Through her iconic characters Lillian, Djuna, and Sabina, and their relationship with Jay, Nin was able to examine “the destruction in woman…woman’s struggle to understand her own nature.”

$2.99 Stella, a little-known work written by Anais Nin in 1945, is an examination of self-discovery and self-worth, a theme central to much of her fiction. The title character is loosely based on actress Luise Rainer, with whom Nin had a contentious friendship. Stella is faced with the contrast between her love affair with a public that adores her for her film roles, and her personal inability to find human love. The men in Stella’s life include an ex-husband, a Don Juan lover, and a father who is not unlike Nin’s own.

$4.99 Children of the Albatross is considered by many to be one of Anaïs Nin’s most beautiful books; it is also a groundbreaker in that it eloquently addresses androgyny and homosexuality, which few literary works dared to do in 1940s America. We are introduced to three of Nin’s most significant characters: Djuna, Lillian, and Sabina, all of whom represent different aspects of Nin’s character—serenity, earthiness, and the femme fatale, respectively.

$4.99 The Four-Chambered Heart, Anais Nin's third title in the Cities of the Interior series of novels, is one of Nin's most compelling books, with well-defined characters (Djuna, Rango, and Zora), rhythmic waves of tension, and a powerful climax. Based on Nin's own relationship with the Peruvian radical Gonzalo More and his wife Helba, The Four-Chambered Heart examines how each of us experiences love in our own way, and how we are sometimes forced by social mores to compartmentalize one relationship in order to preserve the other. Nin's use of symbolism has never been more effective: the river Seine represents the immutable force of life, the houseboat is the elusive dream, the shore is reality, and a doll found by a fisherman represents the part of Djuna that has committed suicide to allow the rest of her to grow.

Seduction of the Minotaur is an example of Anaïs Nin’s most mature and cohesive fiction. The central character, Lillian, arrives in an exotically primitive Mexico from New York, in part to forget her crumbling marriage and to find flow in her life after years of stasis. She befriends Dr. Hernandez, who, like Lillian, is also trying to forget, to escape, which he does with violence, shocking Lillian into facing her inner demon, the “Minotaur.” Critic Oliver Evans says of Seduction of the Minotaur: “Its symbolism is the most complicated of any of Miss Nin’s longer works…and at the same time it makes more concessions…to the tradition of the realistic novel: the result is a work of unusual richness.”

$4.99 Collages is Anaïs Nin’s last work of fiction, and is, as the title suggests, a collection of interwoven stories, opening and closing with the passage: “Vienna was the city of statues. They were as numerous as the people who walked the streets. They stood on the top of the highest towers, lay down on stone tombs, sat on horseback, kneeled, prayed, fought animals and wars, danced, drank wine and read books made of stone.” Collages is Nin’s most light-hearted writing, and, in that sense, is perhaps her most entertaining book. As Henry Miller commented, “The best of collages fall apart with time; these will not.”

$4.99 Out of print since 1939, Anais Nin's second work of fiction is republished for the first time in any language. The book consists of three stories: "Djuna," which, because of censorship, was eliminated entirely from subsequent editions of this title, is Nin's first treatment of the Anais Nin-Henry Miller-June Miller triangle, made famous in the unexpurgated diary entitled 'Henry and June,' which came out in 1986. The second novella, "Lilith," is the symbolic rendering of Nin's incestuous affair with her father, Joaquin Nin. "The Voice," the final novella, describes Nin's relationship with a combined character representing her analysts Otto Rank and Rene Allendy, both of whom had sexual relations with her. The Winter of Artifice is a groundbreaking piece of literature, foraying into realms previously untouched by women writers, and after a long absence, is finally available to readers in the USA and UK for the very first time since its publication in France in 1939.

$3.99 The inaugral issue of A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, published during Nin's centennial year, 2003. Articles include an excerpt from Nin's unpublished 1940s diary, Janet Fitch's recollections of how her writing was influenced by Nin, Lynette Felber's examination of the contentious friendship between Nin and Rebecca West, an interview with Joaquin Nin-Culmell, and a visit to Nin's home in Louveciennes on her 100th birthday. Poetry, reviews, and photographs are included.

$3.99 Included in this issue is a 22 page excerpt from Nin's unexpurgated 1940s diary, entitled "Dances of Love and Desire," an intimate look at Nin's relationship with her Haitian friends and lovers in New York City. Also included are essays and articles by Masako Meio, Beatrice Commenge, Karl Orend, Javant Biarujia, Jacques Lay, Jean-Yves Boulic, Yoshiho Satake, R.G. Kainer, Tristine Rainer, Benjamin Franklin V, Karin Finell, along with an excerpt from Maria Chekhov's memoirs, and poetry by Thomas March and Morton Traub. With reviews and summaries of current books and other media.

$3.99 Volume 6 (2009) of the only current journal dedicated to the life and work of Anais Nin. Contains recently discovered letters between Nin and her father leading up to and during the time they became sexually involved with each other, shedding new light on how the relationship developed into adult-onset incest. Essays on Nin, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, feminism, and erotica, as well as reviews on recent Nin-related events.

$3.99 Volume 7 (2010) features an excerpt from Nin's unpublished 1940s diary, letters and excerpts from Hugh Guiler's diary expounding his views on his crumbling marriage with Nin, essays on feminist theory, Nin's erotica, and an interview with Nin biographer Deirdre Bair.

$3.99 Comprehensive correspondence between Anais Nin and Gunther Stuhlmann, the literary agent who would guide Nin to eventual fame after decades of obscurity and frustration.

$3.99 A three-way correspondence between Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann, and the man who would become Nin's most dedicated American publisher, Alan Swallow.

$6.99. Anais Nin: The Last Days is a memoir of famed author Anais Nin's last two years of life penned by friend and confidante Barbara Kraft. Nin's stubborn refusal to relinquish her life and the grace with which she died are beautifully and powerfully described in a prose that is sometimes raw, sometimes eloquent, and always poignant. Nin's true character and spirit are unveiled for all to see.

$3.99 Volume 9 of A Cafe in Space contains an excerpt from Anais Nin's unpublished 1950 diary and correspondence with her California lover, Rupert Pole, written when she was, unbenknownst to Pole, with her New York husband. Articles by Nin scholars Kim Krizan, Simon Dubois Boucheraud, Anita Jarczok, along with examinations of Antonin Artaud and Lawrence Durrell.