Stein: Writings 1903-1932 - Hardcover
The first in a two-volume set of works combines fiction with the author's personal experiences in Paris and includes the play Four Saints in Three Acts and Lifting Belly, in which she documents her wonderful relationship with Alice B. Toklas.
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These days Gertrude Stein is remembered mainly for the notorious "autobiography" she wrote with her lover and long-time companion, Alice B. Toklas. Yet The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is only a sliver of that remarkable woman's literary output. Courted during the '20s, dismissed by critics in the '30s, rehabilitated in the '50s, Stein's reputation has ebbed and flowed with every new generation of readers. Now, however, the Library of America has given her its official stamp of approval as a Great American Writer by dedicating its 99th and 100th volumes to collecting together her voluminous works. Volume 1 covers Stein's work between the years 1903 and 1932 and includes a fascinating mix of previously unpublished prose (her 1903 novel Q.E.D., theater work such as Four Saints in Three Acts, and of course, her poetry, experimental prose, lectures, and essays). For Gertrude Stein aficionados, this collection is a welcome and long-awaited event.
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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, to an affluent Jewish family, spent her early childhood in Vienna and Paris, and later grew up in Oakland, California. At Radcliffe College she studied under William James, who remained her lifelong friend, and then went to Johns Hopkins to study medicine. Abandoning her studies, she moved to Paris with her brother Leo in 1903. At 27 rue de Fleurus, Gertrude Stein lived with Alice B. Toklas, who would remain her companion for forty years. Not only was she an innovator in literature and a supporter of modern poetry and art, she was the friend and mentor of those who visited her at her now-famous home: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Appollinaire. Her first important book was Three Lives (1909), then Tender Buttons (1914), followed by her magnum opus, The Making of Americans (1925), and the book which became a huge popular success, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). Just before her death at the age of 72 on July 27, 1946, she asked Alice Toklas from her hospital bed, “What is the answer?” Getting no answer, she then asked, “In that case, what is the question?”
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- PublisherLibrary of America
- Publication date1998
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- Number of pages941
- EditorStimpson Catharine, Chessman Harriet
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. RADICAL: INNOVATIVE: BRILLIANT: SUPERB: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing, NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA-logo at top center, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-tan LOA-patterned end-papers on heavy stock, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.26", 0.62 kg, 941 pp. Slip-case: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.30", 0.71 kg * CONTENTS: Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932: Q.E.D. (1), Three Lives (65), Portraits & Other Short Works (275), The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (653); Chronology (917), Note on the Texts (928), Notes (935) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The most radical innovator in 20th-century literature, Gertrude Stein proposed nothing less than a reinvention of language from the ground up. Covering the first 30 years of the 4 decade-long expanse of her literary production, this is the first volume of a superb Library of America 2-volume edition which presents a full-scale gathering of Stein's achievements. Breaking decisively w/ all previous literary traditions & grammatical norms, Gertrude Stein forged a unique idiom (abstract & down-to-earth, playful & subversive, philosophical & erotic by turns) which influenced writers as varied as Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Thornton Wilder, & John Ashbery. This LOA volume, along w/ its companion, surveys a literary trajectory that from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of World War II marked her as a fearless & uncompromising experimenter. She was also a master of anecdote & aphorism, many of whose phrases (from "rose is a rose is a rose" to "there is no there there" & "when this you see remember me") have passed into the language. This first volume, containing works written between 1903 & 1932, takes Stein from her first, more traditional fictional works to the exuberant & astonishing experiments of the early Paris years. She was a devoted student of William James, w/ whom she studied psychology at Radcliffe in the 1890s, & took an early interest in memory & the function of repetition in human character. In her early works, she sought a new kind of realism exemplified here by "Q.E.D." (written 1903, published posthumously), a novel about lesbian entanglements at college, & the modern classic "Three Lives" (1909), a set of novellas about the lives of 3 ordinary women, described in the simplest & most direct of prose. In her brilliant abstract "portraits" Stein uses an extraordinary array of verbal techniques to evoke those friends & collaborators (Matisse, Picasso, Apollinaire, Juan Gris, Satie, Mabel Dodge, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, Virgil Thomson) w/ whom she shared decades of revolutionary ferment in the arts. Her play "Four Saints in Three Acts" (1927), which became the basis for an opera by Virgil Thomson, is written for a freewheeling theater of the mind where everything becomes possible. In "Lifting Belly" & other works she joyously celebrates her lifelong relationship w/ Alice B. Toklas, one of the most famous domestic partnerships of that century. "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933), Stein's oblique & playful memoir, became an immediate bestseller & sealed Stein's international celebrity. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). Seller Inventory # 009353
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. This Library of America volume, along with its companion, surveys a literary trajectory that from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of World War II marked Gertrude Stein as a fearless and uncompromising experimenter. She was also a master of anecdote and aphorism, many of whose phrases-from rose is a rose is a rose to there is no there there and when this you see remember me-have passed into the language.This first volume, containing works written between 1903 and 1932, takes Stein from her first, more traditional fictional works to the exuberant and astonishing experiments of the early Paris years. She was a devoted student of William James, with whom she studied psychology at Radcliffe in the 1890s, and took an early interest in memory and the function of repetition in human character. In her early works, she sought a new kind of realism exemplified here by Q.E.D. (written 1903, published posthumously), a novel about lesbian entanglements at college, and the modern classic Three Lives (1909), a set of novellas about the lives of three ordinary women, described in the simplest and most direct of prose.In her brilliant abstract portraits Stein uses an extraordinary array of verbal techniques to evoke those friends and collaborators-Matisse, Picasso, Apollinaire, Juan Gris, Satie, Mabel Dodge, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, Virgil Thomson-with whom she shared decades of revolutionary ferment in the arts. Her play Four Saints in Three Acts (1927), which became the basis for an opera by Virgil Thomson, is written for a freewheeling theater of the mind where everything becomes possible. In Lifting Belly and other works she joyously celebrates her lifelong relationship with Alice B. Toklas, one of the most famous domestic partnerships of that century. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Steins oblique and playful memoir, became an immediate bestseller and sealed Steins international celebrity.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Seller Inventory # DADAX188301140X
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