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22 de jul. de 2010 · The autobiography of Gertrude Stein written by herself as though it were the autobiography of her secretary, Alice B. Toklas Skip to main content We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us!
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, published in 1933, is Gertrude Stein 's best-selling work and her most accessible. Consisting of seven chapters covering the first three decades of the twentieth century, the book is only incidentally about Toklas's life. Its real subject, and narrator, is Stein herself, who reportedly had asked Toklas, her ...
17 de mar. de 1990 · The autobiography, actually not an autobiography at all (but we get the joke), is also a parody of her partner Alice B. Toklas, who bears the brunt of affectionate barbs when not showering the author with zingers and unflattering observations of her own.
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3 de mar. de 2020 · Penguin, Mar 3, 2020 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages. An illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein's most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and fanciful images of artist Maira Kalman Considered one of the richest and most irreverent biographies in history, The Autobiography of ...
26 de abr. de 2001 · Penguin Books Limited, Apr 26, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 272 pages. For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and ‘it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning’. Picasso was there with ‘his high whinnying spanish giggle’, as were Cezanne and ...
14 de ago. de 2011 · An "autobiography" of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein. This is my first Stein book, and I found it very well written. I enjoyed reading about the various famous (although they weren't famous at the time) people that were involved in the avant-garde movement in Paris in the early 1900's; Hemingway, Picasso, Matisse, Man Ray, Juan Gris, etc.
15 de jun. de 2001 · As Toklas put it – ‘The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me’. A light-hearted entertainment, this is in fact Gertrude Stein’s own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a ...
