The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten: Volume 1, 1913-1935

Gertrude Stein

Carl, Van Vechten

Columbia University Press

This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein -- including her own autobiographical writings -- omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living": the immediate concerns, objects, people, and places that were the grist for her writing. These letters not only vividly represent those details but also showcase Stein and Van Vechten's private selves as writers. Edward Burns's extensive annotations include detailed cross-referencing of source materials.

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, Volume II: 1913-1946

The first ever illustrated edition of avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein's whimsical children's book "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 Do is a fanciful journey through the alphabet. Each letter is represented by four names (including Gertrude for "G") and features a short story told in verse. "[This is] a birthday book I would have liked as a child," said Stein of To Do.
Publishers rejected the manuscript as too complex for children, and it remained unpublished during Stein's lifetime. A text-only version issued from Yale University Press in 1957. Now, more than seventy years after Stein penned the story, To Do is appearing with illustrations, realizing the author's original concept for the book. Giselle Potter's witty and stylish illustrations provide a perfect complement to Stein's uniquely whimsical world of words, creating a truly delightful, often hilarious book that adults and children alike can appreciate and love.

To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays

Children's Books

Holidays & Celebrations

Yale University Press

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Literature & Fiction

Literary

Vintage Books

The literary theories of American expatriate Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) strongly influenced a generation of young American writers (notably Hemingway), and her ideas about writing still provoke and stimulate. Although much of her own work embodies innovative experimentation with language and sound, the present volume is fairly conventional in style and quite accessible. Regarded by some critics as a minor masterpiece, Three Lives was Stein's first published book. In it she tells the 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 clear, carefully crafted prose, these storeis are not only memorable works in themselves but an excellent entree to Stein's later work.

Three Lives (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

United States

Dover Publications

Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets

An anthology of essays by such notables as W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden offer their views on painting and works by such great painters as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Matisse

Guy Davenport

William Butler Yeats

W.H. Auden

E.E. Cummings

William Carlos Wilson

Ezra, Pound

Marianne, Moore

D.H.Lawrence

Arts & Photography

University of California Press

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Contemporary

Modern Library

The Caedmon Poetry Collection is an exceptional audio anthology of some of the twentieth century’s greatest poems, read by the poets who wrote them.
Featuring rare recordings of William Butler Yeats reading “The Song of the Old Mother” and “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” e.e. cummings reciting “darling! because my blood can sing,” and more than two dozen classics, this three-CD collection is a listening experience beyond compare.
Listeners will delight in hearing these preeminent poets, both contemporary and past, reading their own work the way it was intended.

The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work

William Carlos Williams

Sylvia Plath

Anne Sexton

dylan-thomas

T.S.Eliot

Dramas & Plays

Caedmon

Three Lives

Classics

Peter Owen Ltd

In "The Making of Americans," Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of "The Making of Americans," and on America.

The making of Americans: Being a history of a family's progress, 1906-1908

Owen

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