GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Collection of Poems, Stories and PlaysBy Gertrude Stein
Length13h 31m
About this audiobook
Geography and Plays gathers Gertrude Stein's radical experiments in drama, prose-poem, portraiture, and verbal landscape, revealing her sustained attempt to free writing from conventional plot, psychology, and description. Composed in the atmosphere of modernist Paris and first published in 1922, the volume treats language as an event: repetition, syntactic displacement, and rhythmic variation replace narrative causality. Its "plays" are less theatrical scripts than meditations on perception, presence, and the structures by which meaning is made. Stein, an American expatriate born in 1874, became one of the central figures of avant-garde modernism through her Paris salon, her friendships with Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and others, and her own deep engagement with painting, psychology, and the instability of representation. Her studies with William James and her immersion in Cubism helped shape a literary method that sought to render consciousness and objects from multiple angles simultaneously. This book is recommended for readers willing to encounter literature as experiment rather than ornament. Challenging, witty, and often mesmerizing, Geography and Plays rewards slow reading and rereading, especially for those interested in modernism, feminist innovation, performance theory, and the history of literary form.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenreLiterary Classics
Length13 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 17, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Washington Irving: The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs Collection (Annotated)
26Portrait of Constance Fletcher
2Introduction
27A Poem about Walberg
3Author Biography
28Johnny Grey
4Historical Context
29A Portrait of F. B.
5Synopsis (Selection)
30Sacred Emily
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6GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS
31IIIIIIIIII
7Susie Asado
32One (Van Vechten)
8Ada
33One (Harry Phelan Gibb)
9Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
34A Curtain Raiser
10A Collection
35Ladies Voices
11France
36What Happened
12Americans
37White Wines
13Italians
38Do Let Us Go Away
14A Sweet Tail
39For the Country Entirely
15The History of Belmonte
40Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It
16In the Grass
41Every Afternoon
17England
42Captain Walter Arnold
18Mallorcan Stories
43Please Do Not Suffer
19Scenes
44He Said It
20The King or Something
45Counting Her Dresses
21Publishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British Museum
46I Like It to Be a Play
22Roche
47Not Sightly
23Braque
48Bonne Annee
24Portrait of Prince B. D.
49Mexico
25Mrs. Whitehead
50A Family of Perhaps Three
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