Selected Writings of Gertrude SteinKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 24 okt 2012 - 736 pagina's "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 from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen. |
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Pagina xx
... finally convinces him so that more orthodox styles appear insipid to him. Gertrude Stein is believed to be a difficult writer. This is false. There is not a single phrase in this book that cannot be comprehended by a schoolgirl of ...
... finally convinces him so that more orthodox styles appear insipid to him. Gertrude Stein is believed to be a difficult writer. This is false. There is not a single phrase in this book that cannot be comprehended by a schoolgirl of ...
Pagina xxiii
... Finally, it came to her that she could condense and concentrate her meaning into one word at a time, “even if there were always one after the other.” “I found,” she has told us, “that any kind of book if you read with glasses and ...
... Finally, it came to her that she could condense and concentrate her meaning into one word at a time, “even if there were always one after the other.” “I found,” she has told us, “that any kind of book if you read with glasses and ...
Pagina 17
... finally we came to a middle room and there was a garden bench and as there were people coming in quite a few people we sat down on the bench to rest. We had been resting and looking at every body and it was indeed the vie de Bohème just ...
... finally we came to a middle room and there was a garden bench and as there were people coming in quite a few people we sat down on the bench to rest. We had been resting and looking at every body and it was indeed the vie de Bohème just ...
Pagina 18
... were the absorbed centres but finally I summoned up courage to go forward and draw her attention and tell her of my desire. Oh yes, she said sweetly, Gertrude has told me of your desire, it would 18 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
... were the absorbed centres but finally I summoned up courage to go forward and draw her attention and tell her of my desire. Oh yes, she said sweetly, Gertrude has told me of your desire, it would 18 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Pagina 28
... finally he disappeared behind a partition in the back and was heard heavily mounting the steps. After a quite long wait he came down again and had in his hand a tiny picture of an apple with most of the canvas unpainted. They all looked ...
... finally he disappeared behind a partition in the back and was heard heavily mounting the steps. After a quite long wait he came down again and had in his hand a tiny picture of an apple with most of the canvas unpainted. They all looked ...
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Tender Buttons | 459 |
Composition as Explanation | 514 |
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia | 528 |
A LovE STORY | 543 |
SUSie ASADO | 549 |
LADIEs voices | 555 |
Four Saints in Three Acts | 582 |
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