Nightwood Dan H. Laurence Eyelids droop

Eyelids droop

the nineteenth-century American missionary Isabella Thoburn and her efforts to stamp out the “sinfulness” of the Mughal culture of India

Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside

With over 450 illustrations

and Nietzsche

Nightwood Dan H. Laurence Eyelids droopNightwood, 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 Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Viennaa world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some