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"What I would leave the reader prepared to find is the great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization...". Thus T. S. Eliot wrote of Nightwood , Djuna Barnes' vivid, provocative and daring exploration of the tangled, semi-hidden lives led by a group of chiefly gay characters in the Paris of the 1920s. It is a key novel of its time that has lost none of its power to inspire and perplex. RPJ