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Anna

The fourth woman named on the 1983 jacket; the surviving catalogue description gives no trustworthy further particulars.

The book

Cover of Under the Roofs of Paris by Henry Miller
Under the Roofs of ParisHenry Miller, 1983

Six commissioned erotic pieces, published after Miller’s death under two titles — and shadowed by a serious authorship dispute.

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Who they are in the book

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Anna completes the four-name sequence on the first edition’s jacket: Marcelle, Tania, Alexandra, and Anna. The copy presents them as stages in the narrator’s episodic search for women and experience.

No fuller description is asserted because the available public records do not support one. This is a recorded research limit, not an invitation to fill the gap imaginatively.

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