A man in a frock coat and top hat creeps through the underbrush toward a farm corral in the opening story, and nothing that follows is ordinary. Barnes mixes stories such as “The Valet” and “To the Dogs” with one-act plays like “Three from the Earth” and poems, all written in her dark, mannered, unsettling style.
Early modernist work by the future author of Nightwood, for readers who like the strange. Download the free EPUB.