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  • Nightwood

    by Djuna Barnes, Jeanette Winterson ...
    The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece—one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Book

    by Djuna Barnes ...
    Toward dusk, in the Summer of the year, a man dressed in a frock coat and top hat, and carrying a cane, crept through the underbrush bordering the corral of the Buckler farm. As he moved, small twigs snapped, fell and were silent. His knees were green from wounded shrubbery and grass, and his outspread hands tore unheeded plants. His wrists hurt him and he rested from time to time, always caring ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ryder

    by Djuna Barnes, Paul West ...
    This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ladies Almanack

    by Djuna Barnes, Mint Editions ...
    Series series Mint Editions (Reading With Pride)
    “…all Ladies should carry about with them [this almanack], as the Priest his Breviary, as the Cook his Recipes, as the Doctor his Physic, as the Bride her Fears, and as the Lion his Roar!”Unquestionably unique in its execution of narrative, Djuna Barnes’ The Ladies Almanack is an experimental roman à clef that intertwines fiction, myth, and parody into one of the boldest pieces of lesbian ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ryder

    by Djuna Barnes, Paul West ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    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.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of eccentricity and anarchy; through sparkling detours and pastiche, cult author Djuna Barnes spins an audacious, intricate story of sexuality, power, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nom de Plume: An Extraordinary Life—Vol 1

    The True Life Adventures of Djuna Shellam, #1

    by Djuna Shellam ...
    Series Book 1 - The True Life Adventures of Djuna Shellam
    For as many reasons as there are days in a year... a century... or millennia, some novelists choose to write incognito. By using an alias, pen name; or, as the French so beautifully say, nom de plume, they'll cloak their true identities.The nom de plume, while convenient, does present a bit of a conundrum for the writer. Whose backstory or biography should an author employ introducing themselves ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Book

    by Djuna Barnes ...
    "A Book" is a mix of short stories, poetry, plays, and illustrations, reflecting Barnes' experimental and eclectic approach to writing. The pieces vary in tone, from humorous and satirical to dark and introspective. The collection is often seen as a precursor to her later, more fully developed works, where themes of isolation, identity, and human relationships are more deeply explored.The writings ... Read more

    $0.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lydia Steptoe Stories

    Faber Stories

    by Djuna Barnes ...
    Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • I Am Alien to Life

    Selected Stories

    by Djuna Barnes ...
    The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-pief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, her peakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most pilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Counterweight

    A Novel

    by Djuna ...
    Translated by Anton Hur ...
    A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" • For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevatorAn “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and“fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Incredible Transformations of Alice Hollywood

    The Em Suite, #1

    by Djuna Shellam ...
    Series Book 1 - The Em Suite
    Alice Hollywell, the young spitfire from Hollywood and her best friend, the poor little rich girl Em Martín from nearby Bel Air, CA, are stationed on a remote military base in West Texas in the mid 1970s.Worldly Alice "Hollywood" Hollywell is notorious for changing "teams" without notice. Em is shy and seemingly sheltered and has a secret. Despite their differences, their friendship blossoms into ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ladies Almanack

    by Djuna Barnes ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    A “striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody” by the acclaimed author of Nightwood. **(—**Library Journal)Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody, Ladies Almanack is a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy Paris expatriates who were Barnes' literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD