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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)

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Published: 26/04/2001
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A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.

For Gertrude Stein and her wife 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 Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. 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 definitive account by American in Paris.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a writer of experimental prose, is one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. Experimental books like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets in our century, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell in her own time to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan in ours.

If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, you might like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'Buttonholes the reader with its informality, its unhurried rhythms, deadpan humour and acerbic remarks'
Frances Spalding, Sunday Times

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141185361
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 205 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 15 mm

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Katy Wheatley

“What Gertrude Stein Thought of Gertrude Stein”

I read this because I read Jeanette Winterson's autobiography and she cited it as one of the books she read that opened her eyes to the wider world around her. Written by Stein, it is her lover, Alice B.... More

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