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Nightwood by Djuna Barnes; T.S. Eliot; Jeanette Winterson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Nightwood about?

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 Vienna—a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction—there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O’Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes’ depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, “A man is anot

Who reads Nightwood?

Author

Djuna Barnes; T.S. Eliot; Jeanette Winterson

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

1950

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714531014

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.69 / 5 (5,666 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14