LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gertrude stein

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  • The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein
    The Making of Americans is not really a novel, as Gertrude Stein’s narrator says-'not just an ordinary kind of novel with a plot and conversations to amuse you'-but an attempt at a thorough and exacting distillation of the essential properties of peoples’ behavior. Through sentences that seem to repeat themselves, we are presented, on the surface, with a portrait of the 'simple...
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    29,50 €

  • Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein, a pivotal figure in modernism, offers a unique and insightful perspective on two giants of 20th-century art in 'Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein: With Two Shorter Stories.' This collection presents Stein’s distinctive voice in essays and shorter experimental fiction pieces.Stein’s writing provides an intimate glimpse into the artistic landscape of her time, ex...
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    23,13 €

  • Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein, a pivotal figure in modernism, offers a unique and insightful perspective on two giants of 20th-century art in 'Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein: With Two Shorter Stories.' This collection presents Stein’s distinctive voice in essays and shorter experimental fiction pieces.Stein’s writing provides an intimate glimpse into the artistic landscape of her time, ex...
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    35,61 €

  • Tender Buttons Objects Food Rooms
    Gertrude Stein
    Tender Buttons Objects Food Rooms work by Gertrude Stein, divided into three sections: Objects, Food, and Rooms. This experimental collection of prose poems focuses on the mundane aspects of everyday life, using language in unconventional ways. Stein s style breaks traditional narrative and syntactical norms to offer a new perspective on the ordinary, creating what has been...
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    10,88 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives paints an intimate, groundbreaking portrait of three women- Anna, Melanctha, and Lena-navigating love, hardship, and identity. With rhythmic, experimental prose, Stein reshapes narrative form, offering a vivid, deeply human exploration of everyday lives. A modernist classic that challenges convention and captures the essence of lived experience. ...
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    14,98 €

  • 150 Years of Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1874, 150 years ago this year. This volume includes extracts from her writings at significant points in her career.Our publisher’s choice provides a concise introduction to one of the world’s most original literary minds.Gertrude Stein was a masculine, openly lesbian woman who lived her whole life on her own terms; good-natured, id...
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    6,65 €

  • Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    'Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein' by Gertrude Stein is a captivating exploration of modern art’s revolutionary forces, interwoven with the personal dynamics of three titans of the Parisian art scene. Through Stein’s incisive art criticism, readers delve into the avant-garde world of Cubism, witnessing the innovative works of Matisse and Picasso. Stein’s unique perspective sh...
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    16,72 €

  • The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein
    The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress is a modernist novel by Gertrude Stein. The novel traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Stein also includes frequent metafictional meditations on the process of writing the text that periodically overtakes the main narrative. ...
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    53,96 €

  • Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
    Gertrude Stein
    Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformat...
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    24,62 €

  • Tender Buttons Objects-Food-Rooms
    Gertrude Stein
    Tender Buttons Objects-Food-Rooms, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These...
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    19,85 €

  • Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein; With Two Shorter Stories
    Gertrude Stein
    Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein; With Two Shorter Stories, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these b...
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    20,05 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Three Lives was Gertrude Stein’s first published book. It contains three stories of three working class women - Anna, a conscientious but rigid serving woman; Melanctha, a worldly-wise and sensitive black girl; and Lena, a gentle but feeble-minded maid. Although these are relatively ordinary women, in Stein’s hands their lives and minds take on extraordinary interest. Told in c...
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    21,01 €

  • Picasso
    Gertrude Stein
    For more than a generation, Gertrude Stein’s Paris home at 27 rue de Fleurus was the center of a glittering coterie of artists and writers, one of whom was Pablo Picasso. In this intimate and revealing memoir, Stein tells us much about the great man (and herself) and offers many insights into the life and art of the 20th century’s greatest painter.Mixing biological fact with ar...
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    8,75 €

  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson
    Gertrude Stein
    One of the greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century, this masterful volume tells the story of Alice B. Toklas and her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein.Following the tragedy of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Alice B. Toklas moved to Paris where she met her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein. The women moved in together and were inseparable until Stein’s death in 194...
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    24,37 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    LARGE PRINT EDITION. Three Lives (1909) is a collection of novellas by Gertrude Stein. Characterized by its straightforward narrative style and disjointed prose, Three Lives proved a breakthrough for Stein, who had previously found it difficult bringing her works to publication. Each novella is set in Bridgepoint, a fictionalized version of Baltimore, where working class peopl...
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    21,40 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    ’You see that Anna led an arduous and troubled life... Her face was worn, her cheeks were thin, her mouth drawn and firm, and her light blue eyes were very bright. Sometimes they were full of lightning and sometimes full of humour, but they were always sharp and clear.’Under the grey, industrial skies of Bridgepoint (modelled on Baltimore), three women - Anna, Melanctha and Len...
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    11,73 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Three Lives (1909) is a collection of novellas by Gertrude Stein. Characterized by its straightforward narrative style and disjointed prose, Three Lives proved a breakthrough for Stein, who had previously found it difficult bringing her works to publication. Each novella is set in Bridgepoint, a fictionalized version of Baltimore, where working class people of all races undergo...
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    16,46 €

  • The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
    Gertrude Stein
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover. It is a fascinating insight into the art scene in Paris as the couple were friends with Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. They begin the war years in England but return to France, volunteering for the American F...
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    12,26 €

  • 7 best short stories - Feminist fiction
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Gertrude Stein / Kate Chopin
    Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Feminist Fiction. This book contains: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, The Gentle Lena by...
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    17,50 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Three Lives (1909) is a collection of novellas by Gertrude Stein. Characterized by its straightforward narrative style and disjointed prose, Three Lives proved a breakthrough for Stein, who had previously found it difficult bringing her works to publication. Each novella is set in Bridgepoint, a fictionalized version of Baltimore, where working class people of all races undergo...
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    9,26 €

  • Three Lives - The Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson
    Gertrude Stein
    Three Lives is a 1909 work of fiction by American writer Gertrude Stein. It is split into three independent stories, all set in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint.The Good Anna is the first of those stories and concentrates on a lower middle-class servant called Anna Federner.Melanctha is the longest of the stories and centres around distinctions and blending of sex, ra...
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    23,29 €

  • Tender Buttons - Objects. Food. Rooms.;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson
    Gertrude Stein
    First published in 1909, Stein’s work Tender Buttons is a modernist classic and a wonderful example of her thought-provoking and highly original style of writing.Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American poet, novelist, art collector, and playwright who famously hosted a Paris salon frequented by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Ernest Hemingway. Before sh...
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    16,23 €

  • Matisse Picasso & Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson
    Gertrude Stein
    First published in 1933, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein contains three prose pieces written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Stein was famous for.A modernist classic not to be missed by fans and collectors of Stein’s seminal work.Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American poet, novelist, art collector, and playwright who famously hosted a Paris salon frequented by...
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    27,49 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein’s first published work Three Lives is divided into three different stories, each one a psychological portrait of a different women. The Good Anna describes an exacting German house servant; Melanctha explores the love affair of an African-American woman; and The Gentle Lena narrates the fate of a patient German maid. The three narratives are independent of each o...
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    15,76 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein’s first published work Three Lives is divided into three different stories, each one a psychological portrait of a different woman. The Good Anna describes an exacting German house servant; Melanctha explores the love affair of an African-American woman, and The Gentle Lena narrates the fate of a patient German maid. The three narratives are independent of each o...
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    35,93 €

  • The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein
    The Making of Americans is not really a novel, as Gertrude Stein’s narrator says-'not just an ordinary kind of novel with a plot and conversations to amuse you'-but an attempt at a thorough and exacting distillation of the essential properties of peoples’ behavior. Through sentences that seem to repeat themselves, we are presented, on the surface, with a portrait of the 'simple...
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    32,58 €

  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    Gertrude Stein
    Facsimile of 1933 Edition.  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is written by Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. In 1998, Modern Library ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th Century.  It is a fascinating recollection of the art scene in Paris as the couple were friends with Paul Céz...
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    13,32 €

  • Three Lives
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein’s first published work Three Lives is divided into three different stories, each one a psychological portrait of a different women. The Good Anna describes an exacting German house servant; Melanctha explores the love affair of an African-American woman; and The Gentle Lena narrates the fate of a patient German maid. The three narratives are independent of each o...
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    33,70 €

  • Tender Buttons
    Gertrude Stein
    Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar.Stein began composition of the book in 1912 with multiple short prose...
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    9,29 €

  • Tender Buttons
    Gertrude Stein
    Ahead of Her Time, And Ours As Well...Tender Buttons, Stein’s first published work of poetry, debuted in 1914 as a volume of powerful avant-garde expression. This meditation on ordinary living is presented in three compelling sections-'Objects,' 'Food,' and 'Rooms'-through which Stein delights in experiments with language. Emphasizing rhythm and sonority over traditional gramma...
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    12,02 €


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