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The Four Chambered Heart

Nin, Anaïs

First UK edition. Peter Owen, London, 1959. Hardcover, 189 pp. Binding is fine. Jacket price clipped, mild scuffing all around. Tiny chips on top edge (about 1mm) and a closed 5mm tear. Some sunning to inside flap.

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Why it's in the Cabin

A stunning first UK edition of Nin’s memoir of her affair with Gonzalo Moré. Her lyrical reflections on love, jealousy, and creativity intertwine to reveal how passion can both wound and sustain.

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Anaïs Nin

The biggest subject of her work, Nin was a diarist, essayist, novelist, and short story writer, celebrated for her intensely introspective and psychologically complex body of work. Born in France to Cuban parents and later settling in the United States, Nin's prolific writing career was deeply intertwined with her personal life, exploring themes of female sexuality, identity, and the subconscious mind. Her distinctive lyrical and experimental prose, often influenced by surrealism and psychoanalysis, gained a cult following and contributed significantly to the feminist literary canon by fearlessly articulating female desire and experience.

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