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Delta of Venus Paperback – 1 Jan. 2000

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This is a collection of short stories which explore the ultimate in sexual possibility, from a female angle.
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    0140184708
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    Penguin Classics
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    1 Jan. 2000
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    English
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    12.8 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm
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Anais Nin (1903-1977) was a French-born author of Catalan, Cuban and Danish descent. She became famous for her erotica, as well as for her published diaries, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics (1 Jan. 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140184708
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140184709
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Anaïs Nin

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Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she wrote primarily fiction until 1964, when her last novel, Collages, was published. She wrote The House of Incest, a prose-poem (1936), three novellas collected in The Winter of Artifice (1939), short stories collected in Under a Glass Bell (1944), and a five-volume continuous novel consisting of Ladders to Fire (1946), Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Seduction of the Minotaur (1961). These novels were collected as Cities of the Interior (1974). She gained commercial and critical success with the publication of the first volume of her diary (1966); to date, fifteen diary volumes have been published. Her most commercially successful books were her erotica published as Delta of Venus (1977) and Little Birds (1979). Today, her books are appearing digitally, most notably with the anthology The Portable Anais Nin (2011).

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Ronald McGill
5.0 out of 5 stars Testing relationships
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2023
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This book needs to be recognised more widely because of the care taken in romantic interludes, whether imagined (according to a New York Times review) or in real life. For some, it is one aspect of life that drives everything else. Or, from another perspective, is it the mind that drives the body or the body that drives the mind? Delta of Venus can be interpreted from either side of that question! That's what makes it so interesting.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The rhythm and cadence of her voice is like waves gently breaking on a shore
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2016
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I used Anais Nin's voice over one of my music pieces recently. The rhythm and cadence of her voice is like waves gently breaking on a shore. It sounds like you'd expect from her writing. This is a collection of her erotica. It's a mixed bag but it's Anais Nin, the voice is clearly hers. A lot of the stories have a strange structure where they'll switch and change focus then simply stop rather than reach an ending. 'I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end'. A collection of variably erotic stories by Anais Nin - if you like that, you'll like the book.
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Dr. P. J. Nickson
3.0 out of 5 stars In at the deep end
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2012
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By page 2 of this book you're well into steamy sex; no literary foreplay here other than a fascinating brief introduction about how the book came to be written for a "collector". I've not read 50 Shades of Grey and wonder what the fuss is about but I did manage the first 40 pages of a copy left lying around and frankly not a lot happened. You can't say that for Anais Nin's romp through all manner of sexual adventures reduced into action packed vignettes of straight, gay, bi-, oral, anal, group and more. I almost got the feeling that she had a tick list of what hadn't been included - "oh yes, necrophilia - haven't done that yet, lets get a voluptuous fresh corpse dragged out of the harbour". There is a story thread of sorts running through the book. The time setting is in what sounds like the early 1900s with many layers of petticoats requiring removal and visits to whorehouses in Paris where syphilis and pregnancy are occupational hazards. But the question is not "what happens next?" but "how?" and "with whom?".

In today's culture more serious questions arise such as the difference, if any, between erotica and pornography,issues of misogyny, exploitation and child abuse - when a sexual romp between a man and his two hitherto estranged teenage daughters - makes one wonder how acceptable this genre is today.
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Eugene Onegin
5.0 out of 5 stars Nights in the Republic of Love
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2007
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To enter the worlds of Anais Nin is to abandon the mundane and the repressed states of conventional existence and to embark on a journey where the only prize is sexual and emotional fulfillment. These carefully polished episodic short stories read like postcards from the edge where the settings are lush Parisian boudoirs fully of silky textures, alluring fragrance and suggestive half light. In these sensual cocoons we meet actors, writers, shopgirls and noblemen all intent on acquiring sensual fulfillment but also importantly in examining the emotional hunger behind that need. Nin writes as only a knowing mature woman can and her creations will stir both men and women as much for her elegant prose as her explicit description. Here we are a million miles from the top shelf paperback and in a world where the accompaniment to the flowering of love should be as evocative as a Ravel ballet. Enjoy...
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Mr R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, sometimes disgusting, essence of Marquis de sade
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2017
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highly recommended if you like Marquis de sade.

Simple but disturbing, bizarre sometimes. One of those books which makes you feel bad.

If you like weird reading, this book is for you
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Lyra Silvertongue
1.0 out of 5 stars Awful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2011
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This is one of the worst books that I have ever read. Nin is a good writer, I'll give her that, but any well adjusted individual will find the themes unacceptable in this day and age. The first short story for example is the tale of a man who molests little girls, rapes his own daughters and turns them into sex slaves (Fritzl anyone?) then tries to abuse his son. There are later tales of genital mutilation, incestuous sex (a girl goes skinny dipping she thinks with another girl, then discovers it's her younger brother who rapes her but she continues to have sex with him), gang rape by teenage boys etc. I didn't find anything enjoyable or sexy. I find it quite horrific that people glorify this as sexy. I would suggest that they should perhaps go for some therapy or turn themselves into the police instead. I dislike having to give it any stars at all.
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TITUS
2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2019
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Read as if a machine had written the disconnected episodes, no romance or subtleness
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KittyLC
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2017
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This will divide readers, as I am sure it always has done. Taken in context and viewed as an example of erotic literature of the time, it is an interesting read. The themes reflect the sensibilities of the era in which it was written, and boundaries of taste are crossed. It is a collection of stories, vignettes really, in which characters find themselves in erotic situations. There is not much 'story' surrounding each situation. Understanding how and why this book was written helps to make sense of this. Definitely not for everyone!
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Jesica B
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint of heart
Reviewed in the United States on 25 February 2024
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If you want different, this is not your typical read! A really interesting read to stir up some funky emotions
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Juliette
2.0 out of 5 stars Livre en anglais
Reviewed in France on 28 October 2019
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Je regrette qu'il ne soit pas traduit en français
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice edition. It is unfortunate that with the government's ...
Reviewed in India on 4 July 2017
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Very nice edition. It is unfortunate that with the government's move to drastically cut down research grants and seats in higher educational institutions, there won't be many people left to read such good books.
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Michael B.
1.0 out of 5 stars I don’t find paedophilia erotic
Reviewed in Australia on 24 July 2019
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If you have read about the exploits of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Cardinal George Pell and Rolf Harris. And if you found their stories to be an erotic turn on. Then you will find this book to be erotic. But you should also see a therapist because you are a sick puppy. In one story, a father rapes his children and turns them into sex slaves. In another story, a priest grooms a young boy for his pleasure. The young boy is ultimately pack raped by his classmates.
The popular opinion of the literary community is that this book was groundbreaking because it was written by a woman. BS. I agree with Anais Nin’s own assessment. She believed that she had prostituted her talent to write sick stories for a wealthy patron. she did not believe they were worthy to be published. These stories were edited and published after her death. A literary classic? I don’t think so.
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John Cowan
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb writing and superb and passionate sex!
Reviewed in Canada on 6 May 2016
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This is a wonderful book for people, like myself, who enjoy pornographic writing. The writing itself is excellent without pages of silly story, and a few lines of sex. It is explicit and very very arousing. Enough said - read the book!
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