Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Three Lives

Gertrude Stein

3.07/5 (3103 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

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 stories are not only memorable works in themselves but an excellent entree to Stein's later work.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0486280594

ISBN13:: 9780486280592

kindle Asin:: B013Z83HR6

Three Lives

Gertrude Stein

3.07/5 (3103 ratings)

Read Download

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 stories are not only memorable works in themselves but an excellent entree to Stein's later work.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0486280594

ISBN13:: 9780486280592

kindle Asin:: B013Z83HR6

More Books

Cane

Jean Toomer

The Professor's House

Willa Cather

მეორე ოთახი

Magda Kalandadze

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Aimé Césaire

Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Mine Okubo

Mencius

Mencius

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

What Maisie Knew

Henry James

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

The Rainbow

D.H. Lawrence

Bir Garip Cindi Zümrüdüanka

Ali Teoman

Dictee

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha