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Ohio University Press Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin Introduction by Elizabeth Podnieks
Under a Glass Bell is one of Nins finest collections of stories. First published in 1944 it attracted the attention of Edmond Wilson who reviewed the collection in The New Yorker. It was in these stories that Nins artistic and emotional vision took shape. 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.Although Under a Glass Bell is now considered one of Anais Nins finest collections of stories it was initially deemed unpublishable. 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. Shortly thereafter it caught the attention of literary critic Edmund Wilson who reviewed the collection in the New Yorker. The first printing sold out in three weeks.This new Swallow Press edition includes an introduction by noted modernist scholar Elizabeth Podnieks as well as editor Gunther Stuhlmanns erudite but controversial foreword to the 1995 edition. Together they place the collection in its historical context and sort out the individuals and events recorded in the diary that served as its inspiration. The new Swallow Press edition also restores the thirteen stories to the order Nin specified for the first commercial edition in 1948.show more