"A superb initiation into the mysteries of Miss Stein." —Christian Science Monitor
Gertrude Stein began the creative work that was to earn her the reputation as one of the most original writers of this century with the three pieces in this volume. Fernhurst, a fictional episode based on a Bryn Mawr scandal of the early 1900s, explores the labyrinth of love between man and woman and between woman and woman; Q.E.D. fictionalizes an early Stein romance (doomed finally by a rival); and the third selection is an early draft of The Making of Americans, which records Stein's struggle toward maturity as woman and artist. Essential works of a significant twentieth-century literary voice.
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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1874. As a child she lived in Vienna and Paris before returning to the United States to study at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins Medical School but left before taking her degree. In 1903 Stein moved to France where she lived with Alice B. Toklas. Her first novel, Three Lives, was published in 1909. Its prose style is highly unconventional and virtually dispenses with standard punctuation. Tender Buttons (1914) was even more experimental and sold extremely poorly. Other work by Stein include her theory of writing, Composition and Explanation (1926), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), two volumes of memoirs, Everybody's Autobiography (1937) and Wars I Have Seen (1945). Stein died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1946.
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A GUEST OF HONOR so custom demands begins an address with praise and humor and speaking to the ideals of the audience clothes the laudations in the technical language of the hearers' profession. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Bruce, Miss Thornton, New York, Janet Bruce, Bertha Dehning, Mabel Neathe, Anglo Saxon, Henry Hersland, Julia Dehning, Nancy Redfern, Abraham Dehning, Miss Talbot, Miss Wyckoff New!
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A GUEST OF HONOR so custom demands begins an address with praise and humor and speaking to the ideals of the audience clothes the laudations in the technical language of the hearers' profession. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Bruce, Miss Thornton, New York, Janet Bruce, Bertha Dehning, Mabel Neathe, Anglo Saxon, Henry Hersland, Julia Dehning, Nancy Redfern, Abraham Dehning, Miss Talbot, Miss Wyckoff New!
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- Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein on 15 pages
- Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri in Front Matter, and page 69
- Gertrude Stein by Barbara Will in Back Matter
- THE WORLD IS ROUND (Little Barefoot Books) by Gertrude Stein in Front Matter
- Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein in Back Matter
- Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Daylanne K. English on 4 pages
- Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company by James R. Mellow in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Index
- Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein in Copyright, and Front Matter
- Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place by Margaret Dickie in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Rachel Blau DuPlessis in Back Matter
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