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Ryder

by Djuna Barnes

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When it was first published in 1928, Djuna Barnes's Ryder, a bawdy mock- Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own, was described in the Saturday Review as "the most amazing book ever written by a woman." One of modern literature's first and best denunciations of patriarchal repression, Ryder employs an exuberant prose by which narrator Julie Ryder derides her hated father, polygamous Wendell Ryder. Barnes satirizes masculinity and domesticity by way of parable, poem, and play, and a prose style that echoes Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Bible, and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. For this edition, several of Barnes's previously suppressed illustrations have been restored.

Synopsis:

Barnes's extraordinary first novel, illustrated.

Synopsis:

From the author of Nightwood: "Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be--vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad."--Argonaut

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About the Author

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) 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.Paul West was born in 1930 in England, and educated at Oxford and Columbia Universities. Besides 18 novels he is also the author of ten works of non-fiction. He has taught at Brown, Cornell, and Arizona. His honors include a 1993 Lannan Prize for Fiction, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1996 the French government made him a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. He moved to the US in 1957, and presently resides in Ithaca, New York.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780916583552

Foreword:

West, Paul

Afterword:

West, Paul

Foreword by:

West, Paul

Foreword:

West, Paul

Author:

West, Paul

Author:

Barnes, Djuna

Afterword by:

West, Paul

Afterword:

West, Paul

Publisher:

Dalkey Archive Press

Location:

Lisle, IL, USA :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1994

Edition Number:

2

Series:

American Literature Series

Series Volume:

45-3

Publication Date:

19900531

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Black-and-white illustrations by the aut

Pages:

264

Dimensions:

9 x 6.1 x 0.8 in 0.895 lb

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Product details 264 pages Dalkey Archive Press - 2013-03-15 English 9780916583552 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Hold All, Barnes's extraordinary first novel, illustrated.

"Synopsis" by Norton, From the author of Nightwood: "Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be--vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad."--Argonaut