Free Gertrude And Alice Ebooks To Download
Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on September 8, 1907, in Paris, and remained together from that day until Gertrude's death in 1946. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray & Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso, and written about in the works of Hemingway, Paul Bowles and Sylvia Beach. Gertrude and Alice is the highly acclaimed story of their remarkable life together. From letters, memoirs and their published writings and with rich illustrations, Whitbread Award-winner Diana Souhami brings their characters, beliefs,and achievements vividly to life: *so emphatically and uncompromisingly themselves, that the world could do nothing less than accept them as they were.* --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Pandora Pr; First Edition edition (January 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0044408331
ISBN-13: 978-0044408338
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,891,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #69 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > LGBT > Lesbian #10585 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Authors #18634 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > Women
Wow, it's been 20 years since Ms. Souhami wrote this book and fortunately it is again in print with this edition which also includes a new introduction by her. The introduction itself is amazing and worth buying another copy of the book even if you already have one. (You can give your other copy to a friend!)This is the best dual-bio of these two ladies (and I've read it both in German and English.) The book makes both of them very real, moving them beyond the literary/lesbian icons that they've become in the last 60+ years. Read this in conjunction with James Mellow's CHARMED CIRCLE (you can still find it online through used book dealers or in many 2nd hand bookstores.) and you'll be hooked both on Gertrude and Alice and the artistic era between the two World Wars!
This is my favorite biography of Gertrude Stein because it is so sympathetic to her humanity. Diana Souhami takes the reader on a private tour of the life of Gertrude and Alice; I felt like a fly on the parlor wall. I've reread this book a number of times and it never gets old. Love it.
I am not a scholar and I am not sure that I would have the patience to read Gertrude "dans le texte". Yet I have a dilettant interest in these women of the first half of this century who seemed to have had a strong influence on the Arts and Litterature (Stein/Toklas, Cones, Sitwells...). I picked up this book by chance off the bookselves of my friends -- Liz and Jeff -- a rainy day by the Delaware River. I not only finished it off but enjoyed it tremenduously. I found the writting interesting, detailled (what a treat to get so many details of that era) and refreshing by its ease of access. Do read this book -- I am now onto other Stein/Toklas books (most certainly Alice's recipes).
Oh my goodness .. if you've been 'enamored' of Gertrude & Alice for years & years, or are just discovering them .. this is THE story of their lives together. Grab this book before it goes out of print again !!
It's Not Like I Planned It This Way: Including Alice; Alice on Her Way; Alice in the Know Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice Gertrude and Alice Baby Precious Always Shines: Selected Love Notes Between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Gertrude Chandler Warner and The Boxcar Children Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907 The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Learn to Draw Disney's Classic Animated Movies: Featuring favorite characters from Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, and more! (Licensed Learn to Draw) The Story of Jesus and the Blind Man (Alice in Bibleland Storybooks) Alice's Tea Cup: Delectable Recipes for Scones, Cakes, Sandwiches, and More from New York’s Most Whimsical Tea Spot Taking Tea with Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fanciful Victorian Teas Alice Ravenel Huger Smith: An Artist, a Place and a Time Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's Life and 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)) Alice in Wonderland Adult Coloring Book
