Everybody's AutobiographyExact Change, 1993 - 328 pagina's Everybody's Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody's Autobiography is as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. |
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Pagina 127
... less and less of it , that is what it is , the earth is round and even airplanes have to come back to it . And so naturally there is less of a beginning and a middle and an end than there used to be and novels are therefore not very ...
... less and less of it , that is what it is , the earth is round and even airplanes have to come back to it . And so naturally there is less of a beginning and a middle and an end than there used to be and novels are therefore not very ...
Pagina 189
... less shut in Paris than they were . Lots of apartments never shut their shutters . They would never have done that before . Perhaps it is because there is less money and there are less servants , perhaps they are affected by seeing no ...
... less shut in Paris than they were . Lots of apartments never shut their shutters . They would never have done that before . Perhaps it is because there is less money and there are less servants , perhaps they are affected by seeing no ...
Pagina 232
... less American it was more English and French well anyway was more like anywhere it was less American , the horizon was less American and the houses were interesting and it was there I first saw the shaving advertisements that delighted ...
... less American it was more English and French well anyway was more like anywhere it was less American , the horizon was less American and the houses were interesting and it was there I first saw the shaving advertisements that delighted ...
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