Cities of the Interior is a novel sequence published in one volume containing the five books of Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories...

's "continuous novel": Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart

The Four-Chambered Heart

The Four-Chambered Heart is a 1950 autobiographical novel by French-born writer Anaïs Nin, part of her Cities of the Interior sequence. It is about a woman named Djuna, her love, her thoughts, her emotions, her doubts, her decisions, and her sacrifices...

, A Spy in the House of Love

A Spy in the House of Love (novel)

A Spy in the House of Love is a 1954 novel by Anaïs Nin, part of her Cities of the Interior sequence, published by Swallow Press and British Book Centre, Paris and New York...

and Seduction of the Minotaur

Seduction of the Minotaur

Seduction of the Minotaur is an autobiographical novel by the mixed nationality writer Anaïs Nin, the last part of her Cities of the Interior sequence. It is about a woman named Djuna, and her self-psychoanalysis...

. This combined volume was first published, by the author, in 1959. Its central figures are three women resembling different aspects of the author, and in some superficial ways June Miller

June Miller

June Mansfield Miller was the much-written-about and discussed second wife of Henry Miller.- Early life :...

. In some of the books they interact with each other, with a painter resembling Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is...

 and with South Americans resembling Gonzalo Moré and Helba. Most of the content is taken from her diaries, polished and thinly disguised.
It was followed by her last novel Collages

Collages (Anaïs Nin)

Collages, published in 1964, was Anaïs Nin's last published novel . It is very different from the previous novels of the Cities of the Interior series, because it contains none of the familiar characters in those novels...

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