After decades of producing fiction that was rejected by mainstream readership and reviewers for being self-centered, exotic in prose, filled with psychological theory, and coterie in style, Anais finally found acceptance by integrating all of the above in this published version of her diary.
Timing is everything.
The world of the 1930s-50s simply was not ready for her.
The Aquarian generation of the 1960s was.
When originally published this volume did not have a number in the title because no.