Paperback with tight binding. No owner markings. Colour fading along spine. Shelf wear reflecting age. A good, clean copy. Anaïs Nins first full-length novel. The principal character, Lillian, a restless spirit who is trapped in a conventional marriage,travers[ses] a streetShe was not attacked, raped, or mutilated. She was not kidnapped for white slavery. But as she crossed the streetshe felt as if all these horrors had happened to her, she felt the nameless anguish, the shrinking of the heart, the asphyxiation of pain, the horror of torture whose cries no one hears.What makes Ladders to Fire revolutionary is that it was an early attempt to address womans quest for completeness in a male-dominated world. Through the relationships of the iconic characters Lillian, Djuna, Sabina and Jay, Nin examinesthe destruction in womanwomans struggle to understand her own nature,a theme still relevant today. Ladders to Fire is the first novel in the series Nin entitled Cities of the