Download or read book The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas written by Gertrude Stein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.

Download or read book The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas written by Gertrude Stein and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Download or read book The Biography of Alice B Toklas written by Linda Simon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's fitting that Alice B. Toklas, 'wife' and literary impresario of Gertrude Stein, should be the subject of a biography . . . and this is a good one, sensitive and lively. . . . it's clear from this portrait that through her possessive affection she not only had a dominant influence on Stein's life but (for good or ill) on her highly idiosyncratic prose. With her acid tongue, shrewd judgment, vitality, and intense loyalty she was a fairly remarkable person in her-self."--Publishers Weekly. "Linda Simon writes beautifully of Alice's early years in California, of her Polish-Jewish family, of her growing alienation from her surroundings and gravitation toward artists, of her awareness of the isolating burden homosexuality would force on her. . . . entertaining, thoroughly researched. and well-written. . . .with a clear gaze fixed on undistorted truth."--Saturday Review. "A study that shows Toklas as she must have been, not 'Miss Stein's obedient shadow,'. . . but a multifaceted and complex creature with her own tastes and standards. . . . [her story] is an emotionally stirring experience."--Washington Post Book World. Linda Simon, in her preface to this Bison Book edition, calls Alice B. Toklas "a woman who, through a mixture of determination and good luck, invented a new narrative for her life" at a time when options for women were few. Simon is the author of Thornton Wilder: His World (1979), Good Writing (1988), and other books. She is now working on a biography of William James.

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Download or read book Everybody s Autobiography written by Gertrude Stein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France, England, and America, where she made a triumphant tour of the country. Here are Stein’s devastating analyses of some of the major figures of the day whom she met—among them Dashiell Hammett, Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, Marianne Moore, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Sherwood Anderson—and also of her own life and work.

Download or read book A autobiografia de Alice B Toklas written by Gertrude Stein and published by L&PM Editores. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mais moderna do que todos os modernos, Gertrude Stein embebeu sua literatura com o caráter experimental de sua vida. "A autobiografia de Alice B. Toklas", lançado em 1933, é um mergulho nos ambientes avant-garde da Paris anterior à Segunda Guerra Mundial, onde reinavam a flexibilização dos costumes e a radicalização das ideias. A valorização do dólar permitia que artistas americanos levassem na França uma vida confortável, com uma liberdade impossível na América. Gertrude, criadora do epíteto "lost generation", fazia do seu apartamento da Rue de Fleurus a embaixada de todos estes americanos – Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound – assim como um local de reunião para modernistas como Jean Cocteau, Juan Gris, Picasso, Matisse e Henri Rousseau.

Download or read book The Last Good Land written by Eugenio Suárez-Galbán and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books studying the presence of Spain in American literature, and the possible influence of Spain and its literature on American authors, are still rare. In 1955 appeared a pioneer work in this field – Stanley T. Williams’ The Spanish Background of American Literature. But that book went no further than W.D. Howells’ Familiar Spanish Travels, published in 1913. The Last Good Land covers most of the twentieth century, including such groups as the Lost Generation and African American writers and exiles. It also considers then recent revolution in Spanish cultural and historical thought introduced by Américo Castro, which several American writers discussed in this volume may be said to have anticipated. Recent studies have expanded on Williams’ volumes, but in the majority of cases these works limit their scope to a single period (the nineteenth century, the Spanish Civil War), a movement (predominantly Romanticism) or authors known for their interest in Spain (Irving, Hemingway). The result is often a lack of continuum, or the exclusion of such authors as Saul Bellow, William Gaddis or Richard Wright. Within American literature itself, The Last Good Land contains revisions of traditional interpretations of certain writers, including Hemingway. The variety of authors treated, both in respect to ethnicity and gender, guarantees a varied and global view of Spanish culture by American writers.

Download or read book Autobiografia di Alice B Toklas written by Gertrude Stein and published by Edizioni Lindau. This book was released on 2020-10-15T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il fatto che si tratti di un’autobiografia di Alice B. Toklas e che però a scriverla sia stata Gertrude Stein dà subito la misura di un testo davvero fuori dagli schemi. Se il lungo sodalizio delle due poteva consentire questo gioco delle parti a ruoli invertiti, ad assicurare la vivacità e l’alto tasso di interesse è soprattutto l’ambiente di cui furono protagoniste e animatrici nella Parigi della prima metà del ’900. Negli anni che l’Autobiografia ripercorre, tra 1907 e il 1932, fu proprio nella casa-atelier della coppia Stein-Toklas, al 27 di Rue de Fleurus, che i grandi protagonisti delle nuove correnti letterarie e artistiche si incontrarono per discutere nelle famose cene del sabato sera. Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Apollinaire, Satie, Cocteau, Scott Fitzgerald e Hemingway, solo per citare i più famosi, trovarono nella Stein un’interlocutrice di grande sensibilità, capace di indirizzare le loro ricerche e le loro carriere in modo assolutamente geniale. Attraverso il racconto di queste e di altre vite parallele, tra amori e rotture, amicizie e rivalità, fortune e tragedie, quel mondo affascinante rivive in tutta la sua brillantezza in un testo che nella nuova traduzione di Massimo Scorsone ancora oggi si rivela modernissimo e godibilissimo.

Download or read book Three Lives written by Gertrude Stein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America. Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "The Good Anna" tells the story of a young German servant who must decide between loyalty to her employer and love. In "The Gentle Lena," another German servant girl marries the wrong man, and finds herself trapped as a wife and mother. And the introspective "Melanctha" examines the tragic life of a mulatto woman and those she loved. Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader. This edition of Three Lives has been prepared by Brenda Wineapple, professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College. It includes her introduction, a selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading, as well as a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs.

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Download or read book 3 Lives written by Gertrude Stein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable stories of three women, told with poignancy and compassion by one of the most important writers of our century 3 Lives consists of three character studies of women; "The Good Anna"–a kind but domineering German servingwoman; "Melanctha"–an uneducated but sensitive black girl; "The Gentle Lena"–a young German maid.

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Download or read book An Absurd Vice written by Davide Lajolo and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Absurd Vice, the critical biography of Cesare Pavese by his friend and fellow-writer Davide Lajolo, has been celebrated in italy since its publication there in 1960. With well-balanced affection and blame, it presents a portrait of the prize-winning author of The House on the Hill, Work Wearies, and other books of fiction and poetry, dedicated editor at the Einaudi Publishing House, and renowned translator of such classics as David Copperfield and Moby-Dick, who was yet unable to shake what he ruefully called his 'absurd vice'-a lifelong obsession with suicide. e