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Ladies' Almanack by Djuna Barnes
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature Series
Barnes's affectionate lampoon of the expatriate lesbian community in Paris was privately printed in 1928. Arranged by month, it records the life and loves of Dame Evangeline Musset (modeled after salon hostess Natalie Barney) in a robust style taken from Shakespeare and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melanc ...Show more
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
$23.95 AUD
Category: Classics
"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
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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 Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
$8.00 AUD
Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'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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