With Shuddering Fall is the first novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It was published by Vanguard Press in 1964. Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and is the Roger S. Berlind 52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978 ([1]). She serves as associate editor for Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and...

The novel tells the story of two people, Shar and Karen, and their disastrous love affair, which ends in tragedy.

Like much of Oates' early work, With Shuddering Fall, is currently out of print. It was last published in 1971 by Fawcett. Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton Captain Billy Fawcett (1883-1940). ...

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"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." — Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ...