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Stein, Gertrude

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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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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), thenTender 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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Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three Lives, Portraits & Other Short Works, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Stein, Gertrude: Catharine R. Stimpson & Harriet Chessman selected the contents & wrote the notes for this volume

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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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