{"product_id":"ladders-to-fire-paperback","title":"Ladders to Fire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnaïs Nin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnaïs Nin's \u003ci\u003eLadders to Fire\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. The author'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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLadders to Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book of Nin's continuous novel, \u003ci\u003eCities of the Interior, \u003c\/i\u003e which also includes \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Albatross, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Four-Chambered Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Spy in the House of Love, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeduction of the Minotaur.\u003c\/i\u003e These loosely interlinked stories develop the characters and themes established in the first volume, leading slowly toward a resolution of inner turmoil and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis Swallow Press reissue of \u003ci\u003eLadders to Fire\u003c\/i\u003e includes a new introduction by Nin scholar Benjamin Franklin V, as well as Gunther Stuhlmann's classic foreword to the 1995 edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnaïs Nin\u003c\/b\u003e (1903-1977) is an iconic literary figure and one of the most notable experimental writers of the twentieth century. As one of the first women to explore female erotica, Nin revealed the inner desires of her characters in a way that made her works a touchstone for later feminist writers. Swallow Press is the premier US publisher of books by and about Nin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.49 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131207258247,"sku":"9780804011556","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b5f9f161e6ba6959c92d6ff04717527e.webp?v=1732617194","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/ladders-to-fire-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}