![]() ![]() The first printing sold out in three weeks. Shortly thereafter, it caught the attention of literary critic Edmund Wilson, who reviewed the collection in the New Yorker. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own press and brought out the first edition, illustrated with striking black-and-white engravings by her husband, Hugh Guiler. This edition includes a highly informative and insightful foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann that places the collection in its historical context as well as illuminates the sequence of events and persons recorded in the diary that served as its inspiration.Īlthough Under a Glass Bell is now considered one of Anaïs Nin’s finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. ![]() It was in these stories that Nin's artistic and emotional vision took shape. First published in 1944, it attracted the attention of Edmond Wilson, who reviewed the collection in The New Yorker. Under a Glass Bell is one of Nin's finest collections of stories. ![]()
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