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Ladders to fire

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Swallow Press/Ohio University Press edView all editions and formats
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From the Publisher: Ladders to Fire explores the erotic attachments of four young women. Nin described it as a "woman's struggle to understand her own nature." It began a five-volume "continuous novel," Cities of the Interior, which includes Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Solar Barque (1959). Set in the pre-war, expatriate Paris of Henry  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.
Ladders to fire.
Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1995
(OCoLC)646909296
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anaïs Nin
ISBN: 0804001812 9780804001816
OCLC Number: 32430799
Description: xvi, 180 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Preface --
Part 1: This hunger --
Part 2: Bread and the wafer.
Responsibility: by Anaïs Nin ; with a foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann.
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From the Publisher: Ladders to Fire explores the erotic attachments of four young women. Nin described it as a "woman's struggle to understand her own nature." It began a five-volume "continuous novel," Cities of the Interior, which includes Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Solar Barque (1959). Set in the pre-war, expatriate Paris of Henry Miller, this novel-which shocked Nin's contemporaries-draws its inspiration from her confessional diaries. Although 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. This 1995 reissue of the 1946 novel Ladders to Fire has a new cover and foreword.

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