A Literate Passion

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547541503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447

Book Description
A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist). This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers—Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer—paints a portrait of more than two decades in their complex relationship as it moves through periods of passion, friendship, estrangement, and reconciliation. “The letters may disturb some with their intimacy, but they will impress others with their fragrant expression of devotion to art.” —Booklist “A portrait of Miller and Nin more rounded than any previously provided by critics, friends, and biographers.” —Chicago Tribune Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann

Henry and June

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156400572
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
A year in the life (1931-1932) of writer Anais Nin when she met Henry Miller and his wife June.

Letters to Anaïs Nin

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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Letters from Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller

Author: Joyce Howard
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595002005
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Henry Miller described himself as a confused, negligent, reckless, lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man...filled with wisdom and nonsense. These letters, penned by the controversial author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring, represent Henry Miller's sexual and moral summing-up. They chart the infatuation, marriage and eventual disillusionment of Miller with his fifth wife Hoki Tokuda, a talented Japanese musician almost fifty years his junior. In its almost dangerous candor and its melancholy recognition of love's failure to sustain happiness, this volume deserves to be viewed as the culminating statement of Miller's interior life.

Henry Miller on Writing

Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201124
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.

The Wisdom of the Heart

Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222365
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings. “His real aim,” Karl Shapiro has written, “is to find the living core of our world whenever it survives and in whatever manifestation, in art, in literature, in human behavior itself. It is then that he sings, praises, and shouts at the top of his lungs with the uncontainable hilarity he is famous for.” Here are some of Henry Miller’s best-known writings: an essay on the photographer Brassai; “Reflections on Writing,” in which Miller examines his own position as a writer; “Seraphita” and “Balzac and His Double,” on the works of other writers; and “The Alcoholic Veteran,” “Creative Death,” “The Enormous Womb,” and “The Philosopher Who Philosophizes.”

The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder

Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his "most singular story."

Letters to Emil

Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Henry Miller's letters to Emil contain a compelling record of this writer in the making, beginning with his first efforts in 1922, tracing his ten-year struggle to find his own voice, and reaching a climax with the publication of 'Tropic of Cancer' in 1934. This one-sided correspondence was often quarried for publication, and has never appeared in print until now.

House of Incest

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: Sky Blue Press
ISBN: 1452405840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
The House of Incest, Anais Nin's famous prose poem, was first published in Paris in 1936 and immediately drew attention from the era's prominent writers, including Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. While written in English, it is considered a landmark work in the French surrealist tradition and one of the most unique books in 20th century literature.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547564015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
The fourth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). The renowned diarist continues her record of her personal, professional, and artistic life, recounting her experiences in Greenwich Village for several years in the late 1940s, where she defends young writers against the Establishment—and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. “[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century.” —The New York Times Book Review Edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann