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Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis edition includes a preface adapted from Anaïs Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'. Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist. Her first book - a defence of D.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eH. Lawrence - was published in the 1930s. 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