A selection of work by the American writer Djuna Barnes. It consists of her novel "Nightwood", a collection of short stories entitled "Spillway", and a verse play, "The Antiphon", which she completed shortly before her death in 1982....
"Now this be a Tale of as fine a Wench as ever wet Bed . . . Thus begins this Almanack, which all Ladies should carry about with them, as the Priest his Breviary, as the Cook his Recipes, as the Doctor his Physic, as the Bride her Fears, and as the L...
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 ...