The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By:

Gertrude Stein

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Penguin Modern Classics

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"The Autogiography of Alice B. Toklas" is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography, seen through the eyes of her friend, Alice B Toklas. With occasional glimpses into her early life, it describes her years in Paris until 1932. At 27 Rue de Fleurus, Gertrude Stein established a formidable literary and artistic salon, and this book provides a record of her friendships with some of the world's foremost artists and writers - Picasso, Apollinaire, Matisse and Braque - her impressions of Paris during the World War I and then the post-war American "invasion".

Author Biography:

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Release date NZ

April 26th, 2001

Author

Gertrude Stein

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

272

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Dimensions

129x198x15

ISBN-13

9780141185361

Product ID

1651644

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