Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes with T.S. Eliot (Contributor), Jeanette Winterson (Contributor)

208 pages • first pub 1936 (editions) user-added

fiction classics lgbtqia+ challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. One of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influ...

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Community Reviews Summary of 1,619 reviews

Moods

challenging 75%
reflective 53%
emotional 45%
dark 42%
sad 33%
mysterious 29%
tense 18%
funny 11%
inspiring 6%
adventurous 2%
hopeful 2%
informative 1%
lighthearted 1%

Pace

slow 59%
medium 31%
fast 8%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 82% | A mix: 12% | N/A: 3% | Plot: 1%

Strong character development?

It's complicated: 49% | No: 32% | Yes: 15% | N/A: 2%

Loveable characters?

No: 44% | It's complicated: 39% | Yes: 13% | N/A: 1%

Diverse cast of characters?

Yes: 50% | It's complicated: 24% | No: 23% | N/A: 2%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 86% | It's complicated: 8% | No: 2% | N/A: 2%

Average rating

3.39

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