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 xxv
... give sufficient indication of her talent for fiction. Of her two books for children, The World Is Round and the unpublished (except in French translation) First Reader, nothing is offered either. On the other hand, every element of her ...
... give sufficient indication of her talent for fiction. Of her two books for children, The World Is Round and the unpublished (except in French translation) First Reader, nothing is offered either. On the other hand, every element of her ...
Pagina 4
... give us a black eye in the East, he replied turning and going to sleep again. I remember that once when my brother and a comrade had gone horse-back riding, one of the horses returned riderless to the hotel, the mother of the other boy ...
... give us a black eye in the East, he replied turning and going to sleep again. I remember that once when my brother and a comrade had gone horse-back riding, one of the horses returned riderless to the hotel, the mother of the other boy ...
Pagina 7
... give every one enough to eat. She was a most excellent cook and she made a very good soufflé. In those days most of the guests were living more or less precariously, no one starved, some one always helped but still most of them did not ...
... give every one enough to eat. She was a most excellent cook and she made a very good soufflé. In those days most of the guests were living more or less precariously, no one starved, some one always helped but still most of them did not ...
Pagina 8
... give the young generation the once over. She had in a way but she was not interested in them. She said they made no impression on her which made them all very sad because the legend of her was well known to all Paris. After a year ...
... give the young generation the once over. She had in a way but she was not interested in them. She said they made no impression on her which made them all very sad because the legend of her was well known to all Paris. After a year ...
Pagina 9
... agent gave permission. But this time I am really going to tell about the pictures. It is very difficult now that everybody is accustomed to everything to give some idea of the kind of uneasiness. My Arrival in Paris 9.
... agent gave permission. But this time I am really going to tell about the pictures. It is very difficult now that everybody is accustomed to everything to give some idea of the kind of uneasiness. My Arrival in Paris 9.
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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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