Paperback. Condition: New. The authorās strange and sinuous tour de force has become a classic of modernist and lesbian literature since its first publication in 1936. Set in Berlin, Paris, and Vienna during the decadent period between the two World Wars, Nightwood ābelongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch.ā Nightwood is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys ā" her husband the āBaron,ā their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her; the whole is illuminated by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor Matthew OāConnor. Most striking of all is Barnesās unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book āso good a novel that only sensibilities train on poetry can wholly appreciate it.ā 182p.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. A stated Second edition, Second Printing. 8vo. - over 7 3/4 in. - 9 3/4 in. 239pp., bound in full purple cloth with gilt stamped titles on a red cloth panel to the spine. A Near Fine copy with just a touch of shelfwear. The original dust jacket has light edgewear and light discoloration to the spine, else Very Good. A previous owner's name in ink on the ffep.