Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903–1932

by Stein, Gertrude (Author)

• ISBN13: 9781883011406
• ISBN10: 188301140X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Library of America

Summary

The most radical innovator in 20th-century literature, Gertrude Stein proposed nothing less than a reinvention of language from the ground up. Now the Library of America presents a full-scale gathering of Stein's achievements--a two-volume set that encompasses over 40 years of the author's works.

Table of Contents

Q.E.D	1	(64)
THREE LIVES	65	(210)
PORTRAITS AND OTHER SHORT WORKS	275	(378)
Ada	275	(3)
Matisse	278	(4)
Picasso	282	(3)
Orta or One Dancing	285	(19)
Flirting at the Bon Marche	304	(3)
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene	307	(6)
Tender Buttons	313	(43)
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia	356	(4)
One. Carl Van Vechten	360	(2)
Susie Asado	362	(1)
Yet Dish	363	(10)
Americans	373	(6)
In the Grass (On Spain)	379	(6)
Guillaume Apollinaire	385	(1)
Preciosilla	386	(1)
Sacred Emily	387	(10)
Turkey and Bones and Eating and We Liked It	397	(13)
Lifting Belly	410	(49)
Marry Nettie	459	(6)
Accents in Alsace	465	(7)
A Movie	472	(3)
Idem the Same. A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson	475	(4)
An Instant Answer or A Hundred Prominent Men	479	(14)
Erik Satie	493	(1)
Cezanne	494	(1)
A Book Concluding With As a Wife Has a Cow A Love Story	495	(9)
Van or Twenty Years After	504	(2)
If I Told Him	506	(3)
Geography	509	(4)
The Difference Between the Inhabitants of France and the Inhabitants of the United States of America	513	(7)
Composition as Explanation	520	(10)
An Acquaintance with Description	530	(35)
The Life of Juan Gris; The Life and Death of Juan Gris	565	(2)
Patriarchal Poetry	567	(41)
Four Saints in Three Acts	608	(43)
Virgil Thomson	651	(2)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS	653	(264)
Chronology	917	(11)
Note on the Texts	928	(7)
Notes	935