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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklasby Gertrude SteinISBN 0141185368 (0-14-118536-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Baby Precious Always Shines : Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklasby Gertrude SteinISBN 0312198329 (0-312-19832-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baby Precious Always Shines : Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas'Book summary:Baby Precious Always Shines, a delightful selection from the 300 love notes that Alice B. Toklas accidentally deposited with the rest of Gertrude Stein's papers in the Beinecke Library at Yale, would not have been possible before the 1980s, when the locked cabinet in which they were kept was finally opened to scholars. In her excellent introduction, Kay Turner (whose other books include I Dream of Madonna: Women's Dreams of the Goddess of Pop) explains that with their baby talk and constant blessings, the notes provide "a tantalizing mosaic of a marriage between two women that was built to last." Composed in the "word-inverted, long-breathed, rolling, repetitive, refluent style that Stein invented," they touch on everyday events in the Stein-Toklas household and reiterate Stein's love and desire for Toklas. Many seem to have been left for Toklas to find in the morning beside the manuscripts that Stein had written during the night. A few were written by Toklas to Stein. Turner also offers a convincing new reading of Stein's famously obscure "cows" (in A Book Concluding with As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story and elsewhere), previously thought to signify female orgasm; she argues that Stein and Toklas subscribed to the "cult of regularity" that swept Europe in the first decades of the 20th century. Indeed, the love notes, despite their Steinian verbal play, leave little doubt that the recurring cows, "now sweet smelly and complete," are bowel movements--further evidence, for Turner, of the women's extraordinary intimacy, their love "express[ing] itself daily in the rituals of bodily caretaking." [via]
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Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklasby Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein , Samuel StewardISBN 0312185421 (0-312-18542-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas'Book summary:Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among the correspondents, the striking personalities of Stein and Toklas, and their life in Paris. [via]
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Everybody's Autobiographyby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394718267 (0-394-71826-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everybody's Autobiography'Book summary:Everybody's Autobiography is among the very best of Gertrude's writing--[it] speaks with the true and original voice of Gertrude Stein, without apparent art or bravado.--Janet HobhouseIn 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 searing meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. Posing as the representative American, Stein transforms her story into history--responding to the tradition of Thoreau and Henry Adams, she writes: "I used to be fond of saying that America, which was supposed to be a land of success, was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early failure and a long life of later failure." Everybody's Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious, and may yet prove to be among her most popular books. [via]
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The Geographical History of America: Or, The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mindby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394719417 (0-394-71941-7)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Geography and Playsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0299134741 (0-299-13474-1)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Gertrude Stein Readsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0060008709 (0-06-000870-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Idaby Gertrude SteinISBN 039471797X (0-394-71797-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Last Operas and Playsby Gertrude Stein , Carl Van VechtenISBN 0394716957 (0-394-71695-7)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Operas and Plays'Book summary:In the more than 75 plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her - including the natural world - and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic structure, and even her own friends into characters. She made punctuation and typography part of her compositional style and chose words for their joyful impact as sound and wordplay. For Stein, the writing process itself was always important in developing the "continuous present" at the heart of her work. "Last Operas and Plays" contains many of Stein's most important and most-produced works. As a special feature, it also includes her essay "Plays", in which she reflects on the experience in the theatre of seeing and hearing, and on emotion and time. [via]
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Lectures in Americaby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394714776 (0-394-71477-6)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946by Gertrude Stein , Edward Burns, Carl Van VechtenISBN 0231063083 (0-231-06308-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Hardcover, Columbia University Press - The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946: ISBN 0231064322 (0-231-06432-2)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press - The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946: ISBN 0231063083 (0-231-06308-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilderby Edward M. Burns, Ulla E. Dydo, Thornton Wilder, Gertrude Stein , William RiceISBN 0300067747 (0-300-06774-7)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder'Book summary:Gertrude Stein, the great lesbian modernist, met Thornton Wilder when he was a young writer in search of a mentor. Stein became that mentor and helped Wilder shape his aesthetic into classic American plays such as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. Begun during Stein's lecture tour of the U.S. in 1934, their friendship lasted until Stein's death 12 years later. These letters record Wilder's attempts to help Stein with publication and Stein's insistence that the writer's work is not teaching or lecturing or seeking fame, but writing. The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder records not only a friendship, but also the writers' struggles with the position of their writing in American culture. [via]
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Selected Writingsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394717104 (0-394-71710-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0140181849 (0-14-018184-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Consists of three character studies of women; "The Good Anna"--a kind but domineering German servingwoman; "Melanctha"--an uneducated but sensitive black girl; "The Gentle Lena"--a pathetically feebleminded young German maid. [via]
Three Livesby Linda Wagner-Martin, Gertrude SteinISBN 0312183569 (0-312-18356-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Three Lives And Q.E.D.by Gertrude Stein , Marianne DekovenISBN 0393979032 (0-393-97903-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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What Are Masterpiecesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0273408097 (0-273-40809-7)
Hardcover, Pitman Publishing
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The World Is Roundby Gertrude SteinISBN 0380014750 (0-380-01475-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Yale Gertrude Steinby Gertrude SteinISBN 0300026099 (0-300-02609-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Yale Gertrude Stein: Selectionsby Richard Kostelanetz, Gertrude SteinISBN 0300025742 (0-300-02574-2)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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