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The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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226 editions published between 1932 and 2006 in 16 languages and held by 3,097 libraries worldwide Through the eyes of Miss Toklas, Gertrude Stein reviews both of their lives before their meeting and during their years of companionship.
Three lives
by Gertrude Stein
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166 editions published between 1909 and 2011 in 13 languages and held by 2,401 libraries worldwide "This edition reprints the text of Stein's three avant-garde novellas of working-class women together with a wide spectrum of thematically arranged historical documents. The accompanying selections address the role and perception of women at the turn of the century; the impact of medical science, philosophy, modern art, and realism on Gertrude Stein as a developing writer; and issues of gender, race, religion, class, and sexual orientation. Excerpts from Stanton, Cooper, Wilder, Freud, James, and Du Bois enhance students' understanding and appreciation of Stein's 1909 literary experiment with character, language, and style."--BOOK JACKET.
Writings, 1903-1932
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16 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in English and held by 1,857 libraries worldwide A collection of works written by Gertrude Stein between the years of 1903 and 1932.
Writings, 1932-1946
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14 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,847 libraries worldwide Stanzas in Meditation - Lectures in America - The Geographical History of America - Ida - Brewsie and Willie - Other Works.
Picasso
by Gertrude Stein
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94 editions published between 1938 and 2006 in 11 languages and held by 1,778 libraries worldwide
The making of Americans : being a history of a family's progress
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99 editions published between 1924 and 2006 in 6 languages and held by 1,469 libraries worldwide In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.
Selected writings of Gertrude Stein
by Gertrude Stein
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37 editions published between 1946 and 2008 in English and held by 1,356 libraries worldwide 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 [her] 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. -Back cover.
Everybody's autobiography
by Gertrude Stein
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69 editions published between 1900 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,295 libraries worldwide
The Yale Gertrude Stein : selections
by Gertrude Stein
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37 editions published between 1951 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,269 libraries worldwide
Selected writings
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9 editions published between 1946 and 1972 in English and French and held by 1,176 libraries worldwide
Lectures in America
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38 editions published between 1935 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 1,120 libraries worldwide "Introduces the American reader to the whole field of modern European art ... Ranging widely throughout painting, literature, and music"--Back cover.
Tender buttons : objects, food, rooms
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76 editions published between 1914 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 1,065 libraries worldwide Stein's innovative writing emphasizes the sounds and rhythms rather than the sense of words. By departing from conventional meaning, grammar and syntax, she attempted to capture "moments of consciousness," independent of time and memory.
Ida; a novel
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45 editions published between 1941 and 2012 in 9 languages and held by 1,051 libraries worldwide Roman over het leven van een mooie, intelligente en dromerige jonge vrouw.
A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein
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11 editions published between 1971 and 1973 in English and held by 1,005 libraries worldwide
Wars I have seen
by Gertrude Stein
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33 editions published between 1945 and 2002 in 5 languages and held by 943 libraries worldwide Une chronique au quotidien de l'Occupation vue par une écrivaine américaine, Gertrude Stein et sa compagne Alice B. Tokklas, réfugiées dans un village du Bugey. Un témoignage sur cette période de terreur et aussi un message d'espoir en des jours meilleurs.
Four saints in three acts
by Virgil Thomson
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45 editions published between 1934 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 924 libraries worldwide
Geography and plays
by Gertrude Stein
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36 editions published between 1922 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 875 libraries worldwide
Narration; four lectures
by Gertrude Stein
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26 editions published between 1935 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 826 libraries worldwide Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein delivered her Narration lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935. Stein had not been back to her home country since departing for France in 1903, and her remarks reflect on the changes in American culture after thirty years abroad. In Stein's trademark experimental prose, Narration reveals the legendary writer's thoughts about the energy and mobility of the American people, the effect of modernism on literary form, the nature of history and its recording.
The world is round
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31 editions published between 1939 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 825 libraries worldwide Rose wonders who she is, asking herself if she would still be Rose if her name were not Rose, and goes on a journey in search of herself.
How to write
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20 editions published between 1931 and 1995 in English and held by 824 libraries worldwide more
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Staĭn, Gertruda, 1874-1946
Stein, Gertruda
Stein, Gertruda, 1874-1946
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