Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781564780805
ISBN: 1564780805
Label: Dalkey Archive Press
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1995-08-05
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Studio: Dalkey Archive Press

The version of Nightwood published in 1936 and revered ever since both as a classic modernist work and a groundbreaking lesbian novel differs in many ways from the book Djuna Barnes actually wrote. The Dalkey edition not only restores to the main text the material Barnes reluctantly allowed to be cut, but also reproduces in facsimile the seventy pages of discarded drafts that survive of earlier versions. More than sixty years after its publication, Nightwood is firmly established as a twentieth-century classic, and this critical edition will allow readers and scholars to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of this unforgettable work.

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Summary: A first and great incite into a mystery concerning manuscrip
Comment: It was thought for many years that there was another manuscript, or that there were more pieces to this book than the slim version which became a prose masterpiece included in the canon of American Lit 1900 to 1940. Because of the editing and work by Eliot etal, and because of Barne's reclusiveness, wse didn't know much about this manuscript. Thus Cheryl Plumb's work helps us understand more about the process of this book, it's starts and stops, it's magic and mystery. A must for Djuna Barnes fans

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