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Food (Mini Modern Classics) by Gertrude Stein
$2.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 08 | Reading Level: very good
Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
Gertrude Stein: Selections by Gertrude Stein
$36.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Poets for the Millennium S.
This selection of Gertrude Stein's work is taken from the period between 1905 and 1936, when the iconic modernist poet was engaged in an astounding number of still-surprising literary experiments, whose innovations continue to influence all the arts. Editor Joan Retallack has chosen complete texts or se ...Show more
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
$43.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics (2021) Ser.
In Paris France (1940)--published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik--Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a bygone era, one on the brink of revolutionary change. ...Show more
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
$19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms is the title of a 1914 book by Gertrude Stein consisting of word clusters chosen for their prosody, juxtaposed for the purpose of subverting commonplace dictionary meanings which Stein believed had largely lost their expressive force and ability to communicate. The w ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.
To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays by Gertrude Stein
$40.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
'Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a birthday', muses Gertrude Stein in "To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays". Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children's book "The World Is Round", published the previous year, "To ...Show more
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