Combines visual artistry with literary parody, bawdy humour and zest for the sensual pleasures of love and friendship between strong-minded women.Barnes's affectionate lampoon of the expatriate lesbian community in Paris was privately printed in 1928. Arr
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Euro
From the author of Nightwood Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad. Argonaut
In Chloe Plus Olivia Lillian Faderman seeks no less than to radically redefine four centuries of lesbian literature, filling a need that has long been neglected: a literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with each piece set in
