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Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein, Lynne Tillman
17.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Originally published in 1930 in an edition of one hundred copies, Gertrude Stein's Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary style with original lithographs by Pablo Picasso and other artists in Stein's circle to create an exceptional artist book exploring written and visual portraiture. Written between ...Show more
Every Day Is To-Day - Essential Writings by Gertrude Stein; Francesca Wade (Selected by, Introduction by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the ...Show more
Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The 1937 Sequel to THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B TOKLAS, is Stein's account of her triumphant return to the U.S, and a meditation of the meaning of identity, success and America. ' I used to be fond of saying that America was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early fa ...Show more
Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern 08 | Reading Level: very good
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
How to Write by Gertrude Stein
34.99 AUD
Category: Reference
First published in 1931, this volume offers Gertrude Stein's reflections on the art and craft of writing. Although written in her distinctive experimental style, the book is remarkably accessible and easy to read. The modernist author's characteristic humor is borne out by some of the chapter titles, "S ...Show more
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
18.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
Published the day Paris fell to the Germans, this is Gertrude Stein's look at food, fashion and France using her unique sense of humour.
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein
36.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages ...Show more
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein's strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this 1915 work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provo ...Show more
Tender Buttons - The Corrected Centennial Edition by Seth Perlow (Editor); Juliana Spahr (Afterword by); Gertrude Stein
17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition. 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the original publication of Gertrude Stein's groundbreaking modernist classic, Tender Buttons. This centennia ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic de ...Show more
To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays by Gertrude Stein
29.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
'Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a birthday', muses Gertrude Stein in "To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays". Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children's book "The World Is Round", published the previous year, "To ...Show more