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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Gertrude Stein writes about herself from the point of view of her partner, Alice B. Toklas. In a tone that is at once conversational, revealing, witty, and gossipy, Stein exposes a generation of writers and artists who comprised her salon in Paris, including Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald, Louis Bromfield, Sherwood Anderson, ...
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Three Lives
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The revered intellect and feminist Gertrude Stein brings readers an intriguing portrait of three immigrant women, whose subjugation through poverty and cultural and racial discrimination forced them to become domestic workers to survive. This Enriched Classics edition supplements the original text with a revealing Introduction and notes that ...
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Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (Editor)
This huge, classic anthology of writings is from every period and every mannner of Gertrude Stein's long and illustrious career.
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Tender Buttons
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First published in 1914, TENDER BUTTONS is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of experimental writing in this century. Divided into three sections--Objects, Food, and Rooms--the prose poems that make up the work are beautiful but notoriously obscure, more committed to grammatical and musical innovation than to conventional sense ...
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Picasso
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Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
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Everybody's Autobiography
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In 1934, Gertrude Stein traveled around the United States for six months to celebrate the successful staging of her opera, FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS, and to conduct a lecture tour. Though she had been absent from her homeland for 30 years, Stein was greeted as a revered celebrity; her visit was front-page news, and her lectures were packed. She ...
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The making of Americans, being a history of a familys progress
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In this book, her extremely eccentric magnum opus, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein attempts to analyze "every kind there is of men ...
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The world is round.
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Based on the imagined adventures of a young neighbor in the French farming community of Bilignin, this book tells the story of Rose, a little girl determined to find her place in the world.
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Three Lives and Tender Buttons
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Two of Stein's most recognizable works are together in one volume. "Three Lives, " Stein's most accessible work, is the psychological portrait of three immigrant women and their lives in a new country. "Tender Buttons" is a collection of prose poems which employ repetitive sentences and simple language to build images. Original.
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Geography and Plays
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Generous collection of works -- dating from 1910-1920 -- reveals Stein as a philosopher, poet, portraitist, dramatist and short story writer, as the investigator of the nature of language, and much more.
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Paris France
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A Novel of Thank You
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Gertrude Stein's own assessment of herself and her writing, composed in the mid-1920s, explores the nature of narrative. This work also includes scenes and characters from her own daily life, including the expatriate artists and writers who comprised her circle in France, her lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas, and people she met on her travels- ...
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How to write
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Not a traditional writing manual, this book is another of Stein's poetic experiments in prose. The chapters embody rather than explain the principles of writing she advocates in her lectures and essays.
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Lucy Church Amiably
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-- First paperback edition. -- Both a detailed account of time spent in the country and a masterpiece of experimental "landscape" writing, Stein's long out of print novel explores the interlocking nature of the human and natural worlds, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the ways in which language can be used for description. -- First published ...
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Last Operas and Plays
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In the more than seventy-five plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with her pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. This book makes available many of Stein's most important and most- produced works.
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Mrs. Reynolds
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Wars I have seen
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Lectures in America
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Baby Precious Always Shines: Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
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This volume presents a selection of intimate notes between the famous modernist duo Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, who lived together from 1910 to 1946. Accompanied by photos, receipts, and the odd scraps of domesticity that build up over the years, the playful, innovative voice that earned Stein a place in literary history discusses the ...
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America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait
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Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Stein, Waldo Frank (Editor)
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Blood on the dining-room floor
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Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
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Three Lives and Q.E.D.
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Gertrude Stein, Marianne DeKoven (Editor)
This Norton Critical Edition includes both "Three Lives" and "Q.E.D.," first published in 1909 and 1950, respectively. "Three Lives" is comprised of the stories "The Good Anna," "Melanchtha," and "The Gentle Lena." "Melanchtha" is an adaptation of "Q.E.D.," Stein's first completed novel, which remained unpublished until four years after her death. ...
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Ida
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This is the story of Ida, whose life consists mainly of resting, because she is always tired; of talking to herself; and of getting married, time after time.
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Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings
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