Cities of the Interior, 1959 includes Ladders to Fire, 1946; Children of the Albatross, 1947; The Four Chambered Heart, 1950; A Spy in the House of Love, 1954; Solar Barque, 1958 (later published as Seduction of the Minotaur in 1961).

A general discussion of Nin's fiction must include some discussion of The Diary of Anai's Nin. Although it is not fiction — at least not in the same sense as Cities of the Interior — it nonetheless plays an important role in her development and in an understanding of how her fiction came to be. A diary does resemble fiction in that it is extremely selective and inevitably distorted by the subjective approach of the writer.

Also, like fiction, its meanings and significance can change depending on what is written later. For Nin the keeping of a diary served as a "laboratory" which she could record, experiment and analyze. The process of keeping...