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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

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Author Biography

Name: Gertrude Stein
Birth Date: February 3, 1874
Death Date: July 27, 1946
Place of Birth: Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Death: Neuilly, France
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Gertrude Stein
967 words, approx. 3.2 pages
American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a powerful literary force in the period around World War I. Although the ultimate value of her writing was a matter of debate, in its time it profoundly affected the work of a generation of American writers....
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Biography of Gertrude Stein
14480 words, approx. 48.3 pages
Just as the postimpressionists and cubists made us see paint and then made us see painting, Gertrude Stein made us see words and then made us see writing. Immensely various and wideranging, her work amounts to a systematic investigation of the formal ele...
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Biography of Gertrude Stein
13503 words, approx. 45 pages
Just as the postimpressionists and cubists made us see paint and then made us see painting, Gertrude Stein made us see words and then made us see writing. Immensely various and wide-ranging, her work amounts to a systematic investigation of the formal el...
 


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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Information
105 words, approx. 0 pages
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 autobiography of Gertrude Stein, written by Stein as if she were Alice B. Toklas. According to Virgil Thomson, the "book is in every way except actual authorship Alice Toklas's book; it reflects her mind,...


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The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The Toklas factor.(The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies)(Book review)
11/01/2006: 476 words, approx. 2 pages
The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies by Anna Linzie University of Iowa Press. 230 pages, $34.95 WAS ALICE B. TOKLAS really the author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was supposedly written by...
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Shofar
Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas, and Albert Barnes: looking like a Jew in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.(Critical essay)
03/22/2007: 6,163 words, approx. 21 pages
This paper explores the symbolism of "Jewish looks" in the writing of Jewish-American Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Beginning with Stein's early college writing about Jews as a distinct race, and her literary treatise on human categorization, The Making of Americans (written 1903-1911), I trace the...
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The New York Observer
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of September 24th, 2007
9/18/2007: 464 words, approx. 2 pages
Greater than the sum of its parts … Over the past several years, Janet Malcolm has published a series of essays in The New Yorker about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, their life together in France, especially during World War II, their writings and...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Lynn Z. Bloom
5,139 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Bloom focuses on Stein's innovative use of point of view in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.


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