Geography & Plays: A Collection of Poems, Stories and Plays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788027344352)

Geography and Plays is a generous collection of poems, stories and plays and they present Gertrude Stein's stream-of-consciousness writings. These rhythmical essays or word portraits are often considered as literature's answer to Cubism. Table of Contents: - Susie Asado - Ada - Miss Furr and Miss Skeene - A Collection - France - Americans - Italians - A Sweet Tail - The History of Belmonte - In the Grass - England - Mallorcan Stories - Scenes - The King or Something - Publishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British Museum - Roche - Braque - Portrait of Prince B. D. - Mrs. Whitehead - Portrait of Constance Fletcher - A Poem about Walberg - Johnny Grey - A Portrait of F. B. - Sacred Emily - IIIIIIIIII - One (Van Vechten) - One (Harry Phelan Gibb) - A Curtain Raiser - Ladies Voices - What Happened - White Wines - Do Let Us Go Away - For the Country Entirely - Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It - Every Afternoon - Captain Walter Arnold - Please Do Not Suffer - He Said It - Counting Her Dresses - I Like It to Be a Play - Not Sightly - Bonne Annee - Mexico - A Family of Perhaps Three - Advertisements - Pink Melon Joy - If You Had Three Husbands - Work Again - Tourty or Tourtebattre - Next - Land of Nations - Accents in Alsace - The Psychology of Nations or What Are You Looking At - Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein's writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Author: Gertrude Stein
ISBN-10: 8027344352
ISBN-13: 9788027344352
Publisher: E-Artnow
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2022
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d