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Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Nightwood" is not only a classic of modernist literature, but was also acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th-century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Barnes told a friend that "Nightwood" was written with her own blood 'while it was still running.' Tha ...Show more
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, B ...Show more
The Book of Repulsive Women by Djuna Barnes
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s. Many of the poems in "The Book of Repulsive Women" first appeared ...Show more
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl pla ...Show more
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