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MS Gertrude Stein
The tale begins by focusing on the idea of children being born with a clean slate, but it evolves into something else entirely.
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Tender Buttons consists of three sections titled Objects, Food, and Rooms. While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein’s experimental use of language renders the…
The book is comprised of three tales – two short stories: The Good Anna, and The Gentle Lena ; and the novella. Melanctha. Each one is a portrait of the…
Special Large Print edition, with easy to read text, of Gertrude Stein’s classic work.
Stein’s innovative writing emphasizes the sounds and rhythms rather than the sense of words. By departing from conventional meaning, grammar and syntax, she attempted to capture moments of consciousness, independent…
Matched only by Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a fresh and sagacious (The New Yorker) classic of prewar France and its unforgettable literary eminences.
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Ms Gertrude Stein
Nothing much happens in the book. It would be impossible to prepare an outline of the plot (as opposed, say, to? The Making of Americans ). The action is purely…
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Gertrude Stein was at heart an artist’s writer. She became well-known to the literary mainstream with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and was at her most accessible with her…
Poems covering the everyday mundane, with an experimental use of language that renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar.
Gertrude Stein
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace, c1933.
A superb initiation into the mysteries of Miss Stein. –Christian Science Monitor
This is the first paperback edition of one of Stein’s most revealing novels. Written in 1925-26 (but not published until 1958), it is Stein’s midcareer assessment of herself, her writing…
