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The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

By: Anais Nin
Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin is the published version of Anaïs Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers. Nin would later say she had begun the diary as a letter to her father, Cuban composer Joaquín Nin, who had abandoned the family a few years earlier.

Over the years, the diary would become Nin's best friend and confidante. Despite the attempts of her mother, therapists Rene Allendy and Otto Rank, and writer Henry Miller, to break Nin of her dependence on the diary, she would continue to keep a diary up until her death in 1977.

As early as the 1930s Nin had sought to have the diary published. Due to its size (in 1966, the diary contained more than 15,000 typewritten pages in some 150 volumes) and literary style, she would not find a publisher until 1966, when the first volume of her diary would be published, covering the years 1931 - 1934 in her life. The published version of her diary would be very popular among young women, making Nin a feminist icon in the 1960s. Six more volumes of her diary would follow.

©1969 Anais Nin Foundation (P)2020 The Talking Book Art & Literature Authors Women

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Beautiful perspective from an incredible woman, surrounded by difficult and incredible men

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This book is a truly special artifact of how anais lived and thought and felt. Her life was so vivid and unconventional and we will never have a mind like her again. The narrator is truly amazing too! She does a voice which is very similar to how anais really sounded and she’s good at changing voices for different people in the book. I definitely recommend this book!

Truly beautiful insight on the life and mind of dear Anais Nin.

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Such a beautiful work of art, and such a high pitched voice to distract from it. I really wish the narrator could focus on the story instead of the insanely exaggerated “french-accent” voice. It’s grating, and honestly I do not think I can finish this book audibly. Will buy it in print. It really is a masterpiece.

Amazing book. Performance sub par.

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This is the only way to read this book. This narrator is the best Nin narrator I've ever heard. Masterful job. Thank you!

Obsessed!

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The reader sounds weak and idiotic. It’s hard to even listen to. Over dramatic and whiny, whispy to the point of ridiculousness.

Worst reading ever

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