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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

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ISBN13: 9780679724636
ISBN10: 067972463x
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Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote this book in 1932..using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose...than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded.

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"It is an instructive and most entertaining book....Let us hope that The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, with its wisdom, its distinction and its charm, will have the effect of causing the general public to recognize Gertrude Stein for what she is: one of the most remarkable women of her time and if not 'in english literature the only one' at least one of the genuinely original ones." Edmund Wilson, The New Republic (read the entire New Republic review)

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"... The record of nearly thirty years of life in a fantastically changing Paris and else where — a life passed in the most stimulating and important society." Louis Bromfield

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"... One of the richest, wittiest, and most irreverent [biographies] ever written." William Troy

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Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.
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ISBN:
9780679724636
Author:
Stein, Gertrude
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Intellectual life
Subject:
Paris
Subject:
Authors, American
Subject:
Americans
Subject:
Americans -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Subject:
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Subject:
Paris (France) Intellectual life.
Edition Number:
Vintage Books ed.
Edition Description:
Vintage Books
Series Volume:
no. 68-0204430
Publication Date:
March 1990
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
7.97x5.19x.71 in. .64 lbs.
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