Geography and Plays

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 447 pages
Geography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s writing from about 1908 to 1920. Originally published in 1922 with an introduction by Sherwood Anderson, it was almost inaccessible for many years. This edition makes it possible for students and other devotees of Stein to see the developing strategies of one of the acknowledged giants of literary modernism, whose pathbreaking departures in literary style have recently been assigned still greater importance in light of new theories about women’s writing. An introduction by Cyrena N. Pondrom provides contemporary readers with a fine orientation to the importance of Stein’s achievement in this early work.

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Contents

An Introduction to the Achievement
vii
Analysis of Contents of Geography and Plays
lvi
The Work of Gertrude Stein
5
SUSIE ASADO
13
ONE VAN VECHTEN
14
prosepoetry
23
France 1913
27
AMERICANS
39
Please Do Not Suffer A Play 1916 262
227
Every Afternoon A Dialogue 1916
254
Do Let Us Go Away A Play 1916 215
260
HE SAID IT Monologue
267
COUNTING HER DRESSES A Play
275
LIKE IT TO BE A PLAY
286
What Happened A Play in Five Acts 1913 205
290
Bonne Annee A Play 1916
302

ITALIANS
46
A SWEET TAIL GYPSIES
65
Portrait of Prince B D 1913 150
75
England 1913
82
Mallorcan Stories 1916
96
Braque 1913
144
Advertisements 1916 341
166
Americans 1913 39
176
HARRY PHELAN GIBB
201
transitional pieces
202
plays monologues and dialogues
203
early plays
210
ADVERTISEMENTS
341
PINK MELON
347
IF YOU HAD THREE HUSBANDS
377
Late war and postwar pieces usually more political
392
TOURTY OR TOURTEBATTRE
401
AND ASK ASIA
407
Looking At 1920
416
Notes on Contents and Dates of Composition
423
Sacred Emily 1913 178
429
Bibliography
433
General Index
441
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Famous writer Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, PA and was educated at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins medical school. Stein wrote Three Lives, The Making of Americans, and Tender Buttons, all of which were considered difficult for the average reader. She is most famous for her opera Four Saints in Three Acts and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was actually an autobiography of Stein herself. With her companion Alice B. Toklas, Stein received the French government's Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise for theory work with the American fund for French Wounded in World War I. Gertrude Stein died in Neuilly-ser-Seine, France on July 27, 1946.