| Gertrude Stein (1874 ? 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life living in France. She was an influential figure in modern art and literature. Stein became friends with some of the most famous artists of her time and had her portrait painted by Picasso. Three Lives was written in 1905 and was inspired by one of her paintings of Madame Cezanne. Stein claimed that the writing style in Three Lives was attributed to the painting, which hung by her desk while she was writing the book. T....[more] |
1970
| A seminal text in the history of poetry and poetics, Tender Buttons was originally published in 1914 and is considered one of the great Modern experiments in verse. At one time or another it has been thought of as a masterpiece of Cubism, a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax. Despite the fact that it was written by an ex-pat American, the text of Tender Buttons has had massive infuence on Canadian poetry and poetics for nearly t....[more] |
1933
| Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.From the Trade Paperback edition. |
1917
| Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein is also known as G. M. P. Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life living in France. She was an influential figure in modern art and literature. Stein became friends with some of the most famous artists of her time and had her portrait painted by Picasso. Gertrude and Leo Stein were very serious art collectors. Matisse and Picasso became part of their social circle, and often visited on Saturday evenings at 27 Rue de Fleuru....[more] |
1922
| Generous collection of works -- dating from 1910-1920 -- reveals Stein as a philosopher, poet, portraitist, dramatist and short story writer, as the investigator of the nature of language, and much more. |
1972
| One way perhaps of winning is to make a little one to come through them little like the baby that once was all them and lost them their everlasting feeling. Some can win from just the feeling the little one need not come to give it to them. |
1971
| Not so much a "how-to" guide as an inspirational journey into the craft of writing by one of the 20th-century's most influential and unconventional literary figures. Also valuable as an entry into Stein's own writings. New preface and introduction by Patricia Meyerowitz. |
1971
| "A superb initiation into the mysteries of Miss Stein." -Christian Science Monitor |
1965
| 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. |
2006
| By the American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and sometimes humorous style. Three Lives (1909) was her first published work, followed by Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein (1912) - which includes the stories "A Long Gay Book" and "Many Many Women." Many of her experimental, stream-of-consciousness works such as Tender Buttons (1914) have sin....[more] |
2002
| "Three Lives" is a series of novellas, three independent stories set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint. The first story is that of "The Good Anna", about Anna Federner, a servant of "solid lower middle-class south german stock." The second story is that of "Melanctha", who is the daughter of a black father and mixed-race mother. The third story is that of "The Gentle Lena", which follows the life and death of the titular Lena, a German girl brought to Bridgepoint by an aunt. To this is added ....[more] |
1977
| Shortly after the publication of her bestseller,The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,Stein found herself stymied by writer's block. A series of local crimes inspired this attempt to revive her artistry, a droll detective novel in which the central mystery involves rediscovering the path to creativity. |
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