Anaïs Nin: Henry and June (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback Condition:Very Good Sartre famously refused the Nobel

Sartre famously refused the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 on the grounds that 'a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution'

Joni's long-ago personal Christmas present is a present to us all

cracking open a brand-new hardback with my pencil in my hand

is about to have a very bad day

As Ireland was battered by waves of disease time and again

Anaïs Nin: Henry and June (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback Condition:Very Good Sartre famously refused the NobelThe brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his wife, June. Drawn from the journals of a single momentous year in Paris, Henry and June provides a wildly lyrical account of a woman's sexual awakening and the disillusion of idealized marriage.