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Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

Delta of Venus

Anais Nin, Anaïs Nin

HarperCollins · Paperback · February 2, 2004

From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review).In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents.

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Who it’s for
Accessible, literary erotica with the tidy inevitability of a book that gets assigned and then quietly.
Genres
Erotica Anthologies, Short Stories (Single Author), Feminist Fiction
Published
HarperCollins, February 2, 2004

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From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review).In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents.

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Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing."Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant naughtiness."—Cosmopolitan

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Accessible, literary erotica with the tidy inevitability of a book that gets assigned and then quietly.

Come here for

  • literary short-story collection
  • Anaïs Nin’s name on the spine

Expect

  • short-form reading
  • identity-and-worldview friction

Where it sits

Erotica Anthologies89%
Short Stories (Single Author)52%
Feminist Fiction39%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Short Story Anthologies
  • The Classics
  • Erotica
  • Romance Erotica
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  • Contemporary Romance
  • Romance Collections
  • Gay Romance
  • Short Stories (Single Author)
Authors
Anais Nin, Anaïs Nin
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
February 2, 2004
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Short Story Anthologies