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Nightwood

Title
Nightwood / Djuna Barnes.
Author
Barnes, Djuna
Publication
  • New York : New Directions, [1961]
  • ©1937

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TextRestricted use Berg Coll 22-544Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Additional Authors
  • Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Kuhlman, Gilda
  • Kuhlman, Roy, 1923-2007
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
xvii, 170 pages; 18 cm.
Summary
The story of Robin Vote and those she destroys -- her husband the "Baron," their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her; the whole illumined by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor, Matthew O'Connor.
Series Statement
  • New Directions paperbook ; 98
  • ND paperbook ; 98
Subject
  • Lesbians > Fiction
  • Sex addicts > Fiction
  • Lesbians
  • Sex addicts
Genre/Form
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Lesbian fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • Romans à clef.
  • Novels.
  • LGBTQ+ fiction.
Note
  • "A New Directions paperbook" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
Indexed In (note)
  • Carruth, H. New Directions reader
  • Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
Binding (note)
  • bound in original paperback binding with cover designed by Gilda Rosenblum with cover photograph by Roy Kuhlman.
Contents
Introduction by T.S. Eliot -- Bow down -- La somnambule -- Night watch -- "The squatter" -- Watchman, what of the night? -- Where the tree falls -- Go down, Matthew -- The possessed.
Call Number
D-14 5760
ISBN
  • 0811200051
  • 9780811200059
OCLC
280026
Author
Barnes, Djuna, author.
Title
Nightwood / Djuna Barnes.
Publisher
New York : New Directions, [1961]
Copyright Date
©1937
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 98
ND paperbook ; 98
Indexed In:
Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 221
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 50
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-544 bound in original paperback binding with cover designed by Gilda Rosenblum with cover photograph by Roy Kuhlman. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-544 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
Added Author
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, writer of introduction.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Kuhlman, Gilda, cover designer.
Kuhlman, Roy, 1923-2007, photographer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
LCCN
49001384
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-544
D-14 5760
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