With Shuddering Fall

With Shuddering Fall is the first novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It was published by Vanguard Press in 1964.

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

Like much of Oates' early work, With Shuddering Fall is currently out of print. It was last published in 1971 by Fawcett.

Epigraph

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." — Nietzsche

The Wonderland Quartet
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)  • Expensive People (1968)  • them (1969)  • Wonderland (1971)
The Gothic Saga
Bellefleur (1980)  • A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)  • Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)  • My Heart Laid Bare (1998)  • The Crosswicks Horror (Forthcoming)
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With Shuddering Fall (1964)  • Do with Me What You Will (1973)  • The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)  • Childwold (1976)  • Son of the Morning (1978)  • Cybele (1979)  • Unholy Loves (1979)  • Angel of Light (1981)  • Solstice (1985)  • Marya: A Life (1986)  • You Must Remember This (1987)  • American Appetites (1989)  • Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)  • Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)  • What I Lived For (1994)  • Zombie (1995)  • We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)  • Man Crazy (1997)  • Broke Heart Blues (1999)  • Blonde (2000)  • Middle Age: A Romance (2001)  • I'll Take You There (2002)  • The Tattooed Girl (2003)  • The Falls (2004)  • Missing Mom (2005)  • Black Girl / White Girl (2006)  • The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)  • My Sister, My Love (2008)  • Little Bird of Heaven (2009)  • A Fair Maiden (2010)
As "Rosamond Smith"
Lives of the Twins (1987)  • Soul/Mate (1989)  • Nemesis (1990)  • Snake Eyes (1992)  • You Can't Catch Me (1995)  • Double Delight (1997)  • Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999)  • The Barrens (2001)
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Take Me, Take Me With You (2003)  • The Stolen Heart (2005)  • Blood Mask (2006)
Novellas
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)  • I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)  • The Rise of Life on Earth (1991)  • Black Water (1992)  • First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)  • Beasts (2001)  • Rape: A Love Story (2003)  • The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
Young adult fiction