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Every Day Is To-Day - Essential Writings by Gertrude Stein; Francesca Wade (Selected by, Introduction by)
Category: Reference | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the ...Show more
Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 08
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
How to Write by Gertrude Stein
Category: Non-Fiction
First published in 1931, this volume offers Gertrude Stein's reflections on the art and craft of writing. Although written in her distinctive experimental style, the book is remarkably accessible and easy to read. The modernist author's characteristic humor is borne out by some of the chapter titles, "S ...Show more
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Category: Travel
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. Celebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth ...Show more
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Category: Classics | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
Published the day Paris fell to the Germans, this is Gertrude Stein's look at food, fashion and France using her unique sense of humour.
Picasso by GERTRUDE STEIN
Category: Art
One of the classic texts on Picasso, republished with full illustration as originally conceived. Gertrude Stein was not only one of Picasso's earliest patrons, she was also one of the seminal writers of the 20th century, attempting to make a revolution in prose to rival Picasso's in painting. 61 colour, ...Show more
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein
Category: Biography
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages ...Show more
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
Category: Classics
Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein's strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this 1915 work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provo ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic de ...Show more
Women Who Wrote - Stories and Poems from Audacious Literary Mavens by Louisa May Alcott; Jane Austen; Charlotte Bronte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte; Gertrude Stein; Phillis Wheatley
Category: Classics
Meet the women who wrote. They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote trapped in a room of their father's house, and some went in search of a room of ...Show more
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