Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin [Hardcover]

Anais Nin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 274 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt; 1ST edition (1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151400032
• ISBN-13: 978-0151400034
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she wrote primarily fiction until 1964, when her last novel, Collages, was published. She wrote The House of Incest, a prose-poem (1936), three novellas collected in The Winter of Artifice (1939), short stories collected in Under a Glass Bell (1944), and a five-volume continuous novel consisting of Ladders to Fire (1946), Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Seduction of the Minotaur (1961). These novels were collected as Cities of the Interior (1974). She gained commercial and critical success with the publication of the first volume of her diary (1966); to date, fifteen diary volumes have been published. Her most commercially successful books were her erotica published as Delta of Venus (1977) and Little Birds (1979). Today, her books are appearing digitally.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my favorite book, March 4, 1998

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This review is from: Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (Hardcover)

this reads like really good fiction...Anais opens up and analyzes everyday life to death....expresses emotions that everyone can relate to...as well as daring, very strange, and exciting situations in her life. very sensual....very deep views of relationships...very optimistic..never EVER DULL...always at maximum pitch

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sexy Book, September 6, 2010

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This review is from: Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (Hardcover)

Recently I discovered on my wife's bookshelves the entire six volumes of Anais Nin's autobiography. I'd read Delta of Venus and Little Birds, and, a few years a go, quite by accident, I had the good fortune to live next door to Anais Nin's West Coast widower, Rubert Pole. One of my stories had just been bought to be the basis of a film and he had been the technical advisor for Henry and June, so we hung over the fence and talked about that. I thought he was a great guy. He was then about the age Anais Nin had been when she died, 73. So when I fouund the autobiography I read it all. It was wonderful, a great, marvelously detailed description of an entire era that stretched from 1934 Paris through the acid days in LA.
But it was missing the naughty bits, and Ms. Nin had lived a remarkably naughty life. After her death, at her urging, Rupert midwifed four volumes of the personal stuff. I'm reading the third now. Henry and June is the first. It is marvelous. It takes the reader inside the thoughts and feelings of this brilliant unabashedly lusty woman. At this point I feel I know her probabaly better than I have ever known anybody, because this is as complete a record of thoughts and feelings as is possible in words. In some ways I feel I know her better than she knew herself, because, as she admits, rereading some of her old diaries, events are not recorded as she remembers them, but as they actually happened, in her experience. This does not pretend to be an objective account. This is her life as she saw it.
Sometimes in Incest, and to a lesser extent, in Fire one wants to say, "Hey, get over yourself." These books provide deep insight, but some of her writing is rationalization for some pretty nasty behavior. I feel it's best to just experience, and try not to judge. One fact is indisputable. These books give you a ride like no other. If you have the time it's worth reading them all.
I plan to finish these, read some of her novels that cover the same territory, and perhaps go on to Henry Miller's novels that also cover those events. There are few such opportunites available to get inside the lives of fascinating people and the era they lived in.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, April 29, 2011

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David R. Ingham (Mountain View, Calif.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (Hardcover)

This is among Anais' best works, possibly the very best. It describes the beginning of her multiple love lives and her collaboration with Henry Miller. Since she had already published what she could in her lifetime, these Unexpurgated Journal of Love volumes are largely her emotions and sexual feelings.