Items related to Ladies Almanack (American Literature)
Barnes's affectionate lampoon of the expatriate lesbian community in Paris was privately printed in 1928. Arranged by month, it records the life and loves of Dame Evangeline Musset (modeled after salon hostess Natalie Barney) in a robust style taken from Shakespeare and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and is illustrated throughout with Barnes's own drawings. This new edition is a facsimile of the 1928 edition with the addition of an afterword providing details on the book's origins and a key to its real-life models.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
As an 'Almanack, ' the book celebrates the uniqueness of women . . . extolling their society with separatist sentiment not violent or radical so much as mirthful and delightful.
[I]f you are able to contain your cackling long enough to consider the truth underlying the jest, you will come away with an understanding of the dilemmas facing lesbians at the opening of the century. You'll find that they are not much different from the questions we grapple with today. --Lambda Book Report
Djuna Barnes remains a reminder of the Road Not Yet Taken international, devious, perverse, verbally abundant, psychologically subtle. --Edmund White
About the Author:
[I]f you are able to contain your cackling long enough to consider the truth underlying the jest, you will come away with an understanding of the dilemmas facing lesbians at the opening of the century. You'll find that they are not much different from the questions we grapple with today. --Lambda Book Report
Djuna Barnes remains a reminder of the Road Not Yet Taken international, devious, perverse, verbally abundant, psychologically subtle. --Edmund White
"Barnes... spoofed the gay and not so gay times of her circle in Ladies Almanack, but if she was able to lampoon it... then she was also able to celebrate it." --Jeanette Winterson
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is best known as the author of Nightwood, one of the finest novels of the modernist period. Shw was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, and worked as a journalist in New York before leaving the country to spend many years in Paris and London. She returned to New York in 1941, and lived in Greenwich Village until her death.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherDalkey Archive Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0916583880
- ISBN 13 9780916583880
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
£ 43.80
Shipping:
£ 2.36
Within U.S.A.
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Ladies Almanack (American Literature)
Published by
Dalkey Archive Press
(2015)
ISBN 10: 0916583880
ISBN 13: 9780916583880
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new0916583880
Buy New
£ 43.80
Convert currency
Stock Image
Ladies Almanack (American Literature)
Published by
Dalkey Archive Press
(2015)
ISBN 10: 0916583880
ISBN 13: 9780916583880
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0916583880
Buy New
£ 47.29
Convert currency
Stock Image
Ladies Almanack (American Literature)
Published by
Dalkey Archive Press
(2015)
ISBN 10: 0916583880
ISBN 13: 9780916583880
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0916583880
Buy New
£ 47.99
Convert currency
Stock Image
Ladies Almanack (American Literature)
Published by
Dalkey Archive Press
(2015)
ISBN 10: 0916583880
ISBN 13: 9780916583880
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0916583880
Buy New
£ 48.69
Convert currency
Stock Image
Ladies Almanack (American Literature)
Published by
Dalkey Archive Press
(2015)
ISBN 10: 0916583880
ISBN 13: 9780916583880
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # Abebooks252016
Buy New
£ 51.86
Convert currency
Stock Image
LADIES ALMANACK (AMERICAN LITERA
Published by
Dalkey Archive Press
(2015)
ISBN 10: 0916583880
ISBN 13: 9780916583880
New
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.59. Seller Inventory # Q-0916583880
Buy New
£ 79.85
Convert currency