GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Modernist and cubist-inspired novels, poems, plays, memoirs, essaysBy Gertrude Stein
Length104h 43m
About this audiobook
GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection gathers the astonishing range of Stein's experimental achievement: fiction, short prose, poetry, drama, memoir, and essays. Across works such as Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Stein dismantles inherited narrative conventions, replacing plot-driven realism with repetition, rhythmic variation, and radical attention to perception. The collection situates her at the heart of literary modernism, where language itself becomes both subject and material. Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), born in Pennsylvania and long resident in Paris, was a central figure of the avant-garde. Her studies in psychology under William James, her engagement with Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, and her famous Paris salon all shaped her commitment to seeing and saying anew. Stein's writing reflects a mind trained to question habit, identity, grammar, and the social forms embedded in ordinary speech. This collection is recommended for readers seeking a comprehensive encounter with one of modernism's most daring innovators. It rewards patience, rereading, and attentiveness to sound and structure, offering not merely literary works but a sustained challenge to how meaning is made.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length104 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 17, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
61The King or Something
2Introduction
62Publishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British Museum
3Author Biography
63Roche
4Historical Context
64Braque
5Synopsis (Selection)
65Portrait of Prince B. D.
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6GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays
66Mrs. Whitehead
7Introduction
67Portrait of Constance Fletcher
8A MESSAGE FROM GERTRUDE STEIN
68A Poem about Walberg
9THREE LIVES (pt. 1)
69Johnny Grey
10THREE LIVES (pt. 2)
70A Portrait of F. B.
11THREE LIVES (pt. 3)
71Sacred Emily
12THREE LIVES (pt. 4)
72IIIIIIIIII
13THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 1)
73One (Van Vechten)
14THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 2)
74One (Harry Phelan Gibb)
15THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 3)
75A Curtain Raiser
16THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 4)
76Ladies Voices
17THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 5)
77What Happened
18THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 6)
78White Wines
19THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 7)
79Do Let Us Go Away
20THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 8)
80For the Country Entirely
21THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 9)
81Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It
22THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 10)
82Every Afternoon
23THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 11)
83Captain Walter Arnold
24THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 12)
84Please Do Not Suffer
25THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 13)
85He Said It
26THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 14)
86Counting Her Dresses
27THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 15)
87I Like It to Be a Play
28THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 16)
88Not Sightly
29THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 17)
89Bonne Annee
30THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 18)
90Mexico
31THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 19)
91A Family of Perhaps Three
32THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 20)
92Advertisements
33THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (pt. 21)
93Pink Melon Joy
34Poems, Stories & Plays
94If You Had Three Husbands
35TENDER BUTTONS
95Work Again
36Objects
96Tourty or Tourtebattre
37Food
97Next
38Rooms
98Land of Nations
39MATISSE, PICASSO AND GERTRUDE STEIN
99Accents in Alsace
40A Long Gay Book (pt. 1)
100The Psychology of Nations or What Are You Looking At
41A Long Gay Book (pt. 2)
101IF I TOLD HIM: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
42A Long Gay Book (pt. 3)
102FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS
43Many Many Women (pt. 1)
103THE WINNER LOSES
44Many Many Women (pt. 2)
104THE AMERICANS ARE COMING (pt. 1)
45G.M.P. (pt. 1)
105THE AMERICANS ARE COMING (pt. 2)
46G.M.P. (pt. 2)
106REFLECTIONS ON THE ATOMIC BOMB
47GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS
107Biographies
48Susie Asado
108THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (pt. 1)
49Ada
109THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (pt. 2)
50Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
110THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (pt. 3)
51A Collection
111THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (pt. 4)
52France
112PICASSO
53Americans
113PORTRAITS OF PAINTERS
54Italians
114Cezanne
55A Sweet Tail
115Matisse
56The History of Belmonte
116Picasso
57In the Grass
117Analysis
58England
118Reflection
59Mallorcan Stories
119Memorable Quotes
60Scenes
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