Ladders to Fire by Anaïs Nin

French born American author Anaïs Nin is famous for her erotica and passionate love affair with Henry Miller but her work and life goes far beyond those two aspects however grand and impactful they both were.

Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire for example interweaves the stories of several women, taking you through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers. Nin’s own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. Nin herself memorably claimed that “it was the fiction writer who edited the diary.”

This is a beautiful Swallow Press first edition, first printing in paperback.

A Swallow Paperback

Paperback

Published 1959

First Edition 

First Printing