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Nightwood / Djuna Barnes ; preface by Jeanette Winterson ; introduction by T.S. Eliot.

by Barnes, Djuna.

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New Directions, 2006, c1937.

Lesbians -- Fiction.

Sex addicts -- Fiction.

New Directions paperbook ; 1049

9780811216715 (trade pbk.)

0811216713 (trade pbk.)

xxiii, 182 p. ; 21 cm.

"First published in the United States by Harcourt, Brace, & Co. 1937. Second American edition published by New Directions, 1946. First published as New Directions Paperback 98 in 1961. Reissued as New Directions Paperback 1049 in 2006."-T.p. verso

"Set in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna during the decadent period between the two World Wars. It is 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 is illumined by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor Matthew O'Connor. "--Back cover.

Psychological fiction.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

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