books by Gertrude Stein

books by Gertrude Stein

books:

Gertrude Stein

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein

Vintage, 1990

A Charming Memoir
This is a lively read. It's also an interesting artifact from an artist who, from her perch atop the turmoil of World War I Paris, managed to craft a work that was modern in style, yet classically human in expression. Here she stood on the cusp of 19th and 20th century ...

Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein (French List Series)
Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein

Seagull Books, 2008

Carefully edited and presented by period, this extraordinary exchange between two 20th century artistic giants stretches from 1906 to 1944. These newly translated letters, cards and scribbled notes illustrate their intimate correspondence and touch on both the weighty and the everyday?holidays, money, dinner invitations, art, family, lovers, ...

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

Dover Publications, 1997

(un)lost generation
Mimic and talk and write like some kind of Gertrude Stein. We don't know what roots are - rootless - my generation is not lost - we're staying put on the couch where we live. No one can say we're not (or are) expatriate because the shores of our big sea end at the ...

Picasso

Gertrude Stein

Dover Publications, 1984

Seeing The World Through The Eyes Of An Infant
As has been written elsewhere (Try Hemingway's A MOVEABLE FEAST, for instance) Gertrude Stein possessed a tremendous ego. She did not express opinions, she stated facts even when the basis for her facts existed only in her head. She also had the irksome habit of ...

Three Lives and Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

Digireads.com, 2008

Fine inexpensive edition. Other review is for audiotape!
This is a fine, inexpensive edition of one of Stein's two most readable productions (the other being 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'). I'm giving it five stars because the item's star rating has been impaired by a reviewer who's reviewing an audiotape, NOT the ...

How to Write

Gertrude Stein

Dover Publications, 1975

Reading How to Write
Gertrude Stein's How to Write, as much about how to read as about how to write, is one of the great "unreadable" modernist classics. As a student of the psychologist/philosopher William James, she could predictably want to approach the task of explaining how to write ...

Stein: Writings 1903-1932: 1903-1932, volume 1 (Library of America)

Gertrude Stein

Library of America, 1998

Great edition
Both of the Library of America editions of the Stein works are great- very well organized, nicely laid out, and include a great biographical section at the end. The only reason I give them 4 stars is I'm not a *huge* Stein fan. If you are, then pick these up- definitly ...

The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress (American Literature Series)

Gertrude Stein

Dalkey Archive Press, 1995

The great unsung classic of the twentieth century.
What starts of as an anecdotal recounting of what I imagine is Stein's forefathers and foremothers immigrant experience launches off into a brilliant, highly intellectual examination and rhapsody of individuality and conformity among other things (like death and ...

Paris France

Gertrude Stein

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1996

The City
turned outward to the greatest city in the world instead of inward to her own rhythms, this is Stein's best book.

Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Vintage, 1990

Well compiled offering of a diverse writer
Normally I am hesitant to give a book 5 stars, I try to save this rating for when I really really really am impressed by it, and if this hadn't been a compilation of Stein's writing, I might not have given it this rating. It is really Carl Van Vechten that deserves ...

Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Gertrude Stein

Penguin Classics, 1990

Setting An Intense Mood By Using Blocks of Repitition in the Prose: Not Stream of Consciousness
This is not a great novella or a set of great short stories but it is a very fascinating use of prose to create drama and intense feelings. Readers expecting to discover another Tolstoy will be very disappointed. Her writing style is very unusual but she does not write ...

Everybody's Autobiography

Gertrude Stein

Exact Change, 2004

Funny, brilliant, playful, and of course, interesting
This is a fascinating account of Stein's travels in America following the success of "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas". Stein finds many things interesting about America, and through her descriptions, so does the reader. Her descriptions of the habits, manners, ...