This “amazingly precocious” diary of girlhood in the early twentieth century is filled with a “special charm” (The Christian Science Monitor). Born in P

"Four projected volumes...which on completion will cover the years 1914 to 1931 in the self-potrait of the celebrated writer"--from front jacket flap.

Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anaïs Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947