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After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anais Nin succeeded in getting Ladders to Fire accepted and published in 1946. This recognition marked a milestone in her life and career. Admitted into the fellowship of American novelists, she maintained the individuality of her literary style. She resisted realistic writing and drew on the experience and intuitions of her diary to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, the language of emotion, spontaneity, and improvisation. Ladders to Fire is the first volume of Nin's celebrated series of novels called Cities…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2014Swallow Press · 190 pages · 9780804011556
- Other · English · 1995Swallow Press/Ohio University Press · 180 pages · 9780804001816
- Other · English · 1991Peter Owen · 144 pages · 9780720608403
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