Shelfology Book Pairing

Volume 9

by Gustave Flaubert

Reproduction of the original: Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert

The Original Version and Related Drafts

by Djuna Barnes

Nightwood is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys: her husband "Baron" Felix Volkbein and their child Guido, and the two women who love her, Nora Flood and Jenny Petherbridge. Commenting on them all is Doctor Matthew O'Connor, whose outlandish monologues elevate their romantic losses to the level of Elizabethan tragedy.