num_pages: 319
description: 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.
language: English
title: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
titlecomplete: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, LGBT, Novels, Womens, Queer, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 12238
places: Paris, Germany, Berlin, Austria, Vienna, France
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press