Research Guides: Modernist Writers in Special Collections: Novelists and Playwrights

Modernist Novelist and Playwrights in Special Collections

Below is a selection of works by modernist novelists and playwrights available in special collections book collections, including works by Djuna Barnes, Bertolt Brecht, and Katherine Anne Porter.

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Djuna Barnes

A Book
Call Number: PS3503.A614B6 1923
Publication Date: 1923
New York, Boni and Liveright [c1923]
Ryder
Call Number: PZ3.B2574 Ry
Publication Date: 1928
New York, H. Liveright, 1928.
Ladies Almanack
Call Number: PS3503.A614L3 1928
Publication Date: 1928
Paris: Printed for the author: sold by Edward W. Titus, 1928
Nightwood
Call Number: PZ3.B2574 Ni
Publication Date: 1936
London, Faber & Faber [1936]
Nightwood
Call Number: PS3503.A614 N54 1937
Publication Date: 1937
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1937]

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot
Call Number: PQ2603.E378E53 1954
Publication Date: 1954
New York: Grove Press, 1954.

Kay Boyle

Short Stories
Call Number: PZ3.B69796 Sh 1929
Publication Date: 1929
Paris: The Black Sun Press: Éditions Narcisse, 1929.
The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories
Call Number: PR3503.O9357W4 1936
Publication Date: 1936
New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1936]
Death of a Man
Call Number: PZ3.B69796
Publication Date: 1936
New York, Harcourt, Brace and company [c1936]
Monday Night
Call Number: PZ3.B69796 Mo
Publication Date: 1938
New York, Harcourt, Brace and company [c1938]

Bertolt Brecht

Baal
Call Number: PT2603.R397B28 1922
Publication Date: 1922
Potsdam: Kiepenheuer, 1922.
Die Songs der Dreigroschenoper (The Songs of the Three Penny Opera)
Call Number: ML50.W42D82 1929
Publication Date: 1929
Berlin: Kiepenheuer, 1929.
Der Flug der Lindberghs (The Flight of Lindbergh)
Call Number: PT2603.R397F58 1930
Publication Date: 1930
Berlin: G. Kiepenheuer, c1930.
Die Dreigroschenoper; Der Dreigroschenfilm; Der Dreigroschenprozess (The Threepenny Opera)
Call Number: PT2603.R397D7 1931
Publication Date: 1931
Berlin: G. Kiepenheuer, c1931.

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man
Call Number: PS3555.L625I5 1952
Publication Date: 1952
New York: Random House [1952]

William Faulkner

The Marble Faun
Call Number: PS3511.A86M3 1924
Publication Date: 1924
Boston, The Four Seas Company [c1924]
The Sound and the Fury
Call Number: PS3511.A86S66 1929
Publication Date: 1929
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1929.
As I Lay Dying
Call Number: PS3511.A86A86 1930
Publication Date: 1930
New York.: J. Cape, H. Smith, c1930.
Light in August
Call Number: PS3511.A86L5 1932
Publication Date: 1932
[New York] H. Smith & R. Haas, c1932.
Absalom, Absalom!
Call Number: PS3511.A86A65 1936
Publication Date: 1936
New York, Random house, 1936.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All the Sad Young Men
Call Number: PS3511.I9 A77 1926
Publication Date: 1926
New York, C. Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
The Last Tycoon
Call Number: PS3511.I9 L37 1941
Publication Date: 1941
New York, Scribner, [1941]

Ernest Hemingway

Three Stories & Ten Poems
Call Number: PS3515.E37A6 1923
Publication Date: 1923
[Paris]: Contact Pubublishing Co., 1923.
In Our Time
Call Number: PS3515.E37I5 1924
Publication Date: 1924
Paris: Printed at the Three Mountains Press and for sale at Shakespeare & Company; London: William Jackson..., 1924.
In Our Time
Call Number: PS3515.E37I5 1925
Publication Date: 1925
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Men Without Women
Call Number: PS3515.E37M46 1927
Publication Date: 1927
New York: Scribner, c1927.
A Farewell to Arms
Call Number: PS3515.E37F3 1929
Publication Date: 1929
New York: Scribner, 1929.
A Farewell to Arms
Call Number: PS3515.E37F3 1929b
Publication Date: 1929
New York: Scribner’s, 1929.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Call Number: PS3515.E37F6 1940
Publication Date: 1940
New York, Scribner’s Sons, [c1940].

James Joyce

Ulysses
Call Number: PR6019.O9 U4 1922
Publication Date: 1922
Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922.

Franz Kafka

Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis)
Call Number: PT2621.A26V4
Publication Date: 1915
Leipzig: K. Wolff, 1915.
Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist)
Call Number: PT2621.A26H9
Publication Date: 1924
Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede, 1924.
Der Prozess (The Trial)
Call Number: PT2621.A26P7 1925
Publication Date: 1925
Berlin, Die Schmiede, 1925.

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer
Call Number: PS3525.I5454T7 1934
Publication Date: 1934
Paris: Obelisk Press, [1934]

Anaïs Nin

The House of Incest
Call Number: PS3527.I865 H6
Publication Date: 1936
Paris, Siana éditions [1936]
Under a Glass Bell
Call Number: PZ3.N617 Up 1944
Publication Date: 1944
[New York, Gemor Press, 1944]
This Hunger
Call Number: PZ3.N617 T
Publication Date: 1945
[New York] Gemor Press [1945-
The Four-Chambered Heart
Call Number: PZ3.N617 Fo 1950
Publication Date: 1950
New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1950]

Katherine Anne Porter

Flowering Judas
Call Number: PS3531.O752F55 1930
Publication Date: 1930
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1930.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider; Three Short Novels
Call Number: PZ3.P8315 Pal
Publication Date: 1939
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [c1939]
Ship of Fools
Call Number: PZ3.P8315 Sh
Publication Date: 1962
Boston, Little, Brown [1962]
The Collected Stories
Call Number: PZ3.P8315 Co
Publication Date: 1965
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1965]

Philippe Soupault

Last Nights of Paris
Call Number: PQ2637.O63L27 1929
Publication Date: 1929
New York, The Macaulay Company, 1929.
Translated from the French by William Carlos Williams

Gertrude Stein

Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Call Number: PS3537.T323T5 1909
Publication Date: 1909
New York, The Grafton Press, 1909.
Tender Buttons
Call Number: PS3537.T323T4 1914
Publication Date: 1914
New York, Claire Marie, 1914.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Call Number: PS3537.T323Z5 1933a
Publication Date: 1933
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1933.

Glenway Wescott

The Apple of the Eye
Call Number: PS3545.E827A65 1924
Publication Date: 1924
New York L. MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1924.
The Grandmothers
Call Number: PS3545.E827G7 1927
Publication Date: 1927
New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1927.
Apartment in Athens
Call Number: PZ3.W512 Ap
Publication Date: 1945
New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

Virginia Woolf

Jacob’s Room
Call Number: PZ3.W884JA3
Publication Date: 1923
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923.
Orlando
Call Number: PZ3.W884 Or 1928a
Publication Date: 1928
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [c1928]
A Room of One’s Own
Call Number: PN471.W6
Publication Date: 1929
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1929]
Mrs. Dalloway
Call Number: 1929
Publication Date: PR6045.O72 M59 1929
Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1929.
The Waves
Call Number: PZ3.W884 Wav
Publication Date: 1931
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [c1931]
The Years
Call Number: PZ3.W884 Ye 1937
Publication Date: 1937
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company [c1937]
Between the Acts
Call Number: PZ3.W884 Be 1941
Publication Date: 1941
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [c1941]