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Nightwood
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Nightwood (1937) (edit title/settings)

by Djuna Barnes (Author) (edit contributors)

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The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece — one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" ( TLS ). That time is the period between the two World Wars,... read more

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Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein-a Viennese woman of great strength and military beauty, lying upon a canopied bed of a rich spectacular crimson, the valance stamped with the bifurcated wings of the House of Hapsburg, the feather coverlet an envelope of satin on which, in massive and tarnished gold threads, stood the Volkbein arms-gave birth, at the age of forty-five, to an only child, a son, seven days after her physician predicted that she would be taken.

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This is book 52 of 100 in 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Day of the Locust, and followed by Housekeeping.

This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 624 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by At the Mountains of Madness, and followed by Independent People.

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  1. Djuna Barnes (Author)

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Publication Date: 1937
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Page Count: 208

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