12 Top classics books like The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947 by Anaïs Nin

Cover of The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947 by Anaïs Nin

The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

By: Anaïs Nin

4.21

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establis…

"I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive."

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

"I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive."

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

"Behind my romanticism lies a primitive woman with primitive hungers."

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

"Behind my romanticism lies a primitive woman with primitive hungers."

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

If you liked the classics plot in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947 by Anaïs Nin , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

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  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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2. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • 20th century
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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3. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher, Michael       Gallagher

4. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher

4.16

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

Cover of The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray

5. The Malady of Death

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more

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  • literature
  • erotica
  • classics
Cover of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, Wayne Koestenbaum

6. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir, James Kirkup

7. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir , James Kirkup

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Bea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Nun by Denis Diderot, Russell Goulbourne

8. The Nun

By: Denis Diderot , Russell Goulbourne

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents… read more

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  • literature
  • classics

9. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

10. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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  • literature
  • erotica
  • classics
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11. Leopoldina's Dream

By: Silvina Ocampo , Daniel Balderston

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection by the Argentine author contains stories written in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. All 3… read more

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12. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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  • womens
  • classics

13. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more

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14. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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15. Frisk

By: Dennis Cooper

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Cover of An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector

17. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By: Clarice Lispector

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more

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  • classics
  • 20th century
"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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18. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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19. Intimations

By: Zadie Smith

3.99

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Strange inversions proliferate."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

Cover of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition, Vol. 3 by Naoko Takeuchi

20. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition, Vol. 3

By: Naoko Takeuchi

4.34

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she’s never gotten good grades, and, well, she’s a bit of a… read more

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21. The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

By: Anaïs Nin

4.21

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establis… read more

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  • memoir
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  • diary
  • erotica
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • womens
"I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive."

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

"Behind my romanticism lies a primitive woman with primitive hungers."

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons."

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

"We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if …"

-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947

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