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  • Tender Buttons

    Gertrude Stein

    language (, April 30, 2018)
    The original book is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.This annotated book includes....Book summearyPlot backgroundAnalysisStudy guideQ & Aand lot more....Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms".Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse would meet. [Source: Wikipedia]
  • Tender Buttons – Objects, Food, Rooms

    Gertrude Stein

    eBook (Musaicum Books, May 5, 2017)
    Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It consists of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms", which are further consisting of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane. Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar. Its first poem, "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass", is arguably the most famous, and is often cited as one of the quintessential works of Cubist literature. Rather than using conventional syntax, Stein experiments with alternative grammar to emphasize the role of rhythm and sound in an object's "moment of consciousness". Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein's writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
  • Lilies for English Gardens. A Guide for Amateurs

    Gertrude Jekyll

    eBook (Antique Reprints, July 6, 2016)
    Lilies for English Gardens. A Guide for Amateurs by Gertrude Jekyll. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1901 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
  • Children and Gardens

    Gertrude Jekyll

    Hardcover (Apollo Books, July 1, 1991)
    Book by Jekyll, Gertrude
  • Tender Buttons

    Gertrude Stein

    eBook (, March 17, 2019)
    Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar. Stein began composition of the book in 1912 with multiple short prose poems in an effort to "create a word relationship between the word and the things seen" using a "realist" perspective. She then published it in three sections as her second book in 1914.
  • American Indian Stories: BY ZITKALA-SA: Dakota Sioux Indian

    Gertrude Bonnin

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Aug. 30, 2015)
    ZITKALA-SA [Red Bird] aka (Gertrude Bonnin) was for decades a writer, activist, historian, musician, orator, and much more. Born in 1876, she was, like many, caught between the world of the U.S Americans and her native culture. She was born and lived in a tipi for twelve years and endured the boarding schools designed to assimilate natives to the dominant culture. Her life was one of travel, of charity and social projects, or teaching and of learning. Her writing reflects an intimate knowledge of Native American culture, and of the white man's culture as well. This work succeeds not only as an accurate account of her world, but also as a literary gem.
  • Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing

    Gertrude Page

    Paperback (Leopold Classic Library, April 2, 2015)
    Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a digital version of this work for free. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. Whilst the books in this collection have not been hand curated, an aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature. As a result of this book being first published many decades ago, it may have occasional imperfections. These imperfections may include poor picture quality, blurred or missing text. While some of these imperfections may have appeared in the original work, others may have resulted from the scanning process that has been applied. However, our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. While some publishers have applied optical character recognition (OCR), this approach has its own drawbacks, which include formatting errors, misspelt words, or the presence of inappropriate characters. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with an experience that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic book, and that the occasional imperfection that it might contain will not detract from the experience.
  • Children and Gardens Life Library and Garde

    Gertrude Jekyll

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, June 25, 2012)
    Botany 58 CHAPTER VIII My First Garden 65 CHAPTER IX Flowers for your own Gardens(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
  • Three Lives: By Gertrude Stein - Illustrated

    Gertrude Stein

    language (, April 9, 2017)
    How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)IllustratedAbout Three Lives by Gertrude SteinThree Lives was American writer Gertrude Stein's first published book. The book is separated into three stories, "The Good Anna", "Melanctha", and "The Gentle Lena". The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore. "The Good Anna", the first of Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives, is a novella set in "Bridgepoint" about Anna Federner, a servant of "solid lower middle-class south german stock". Part I describes Anna’s happy life as housekeeper for Miss Mathilda and her difficulties with unreliable under servants and "stray dogs and cats". She loves her "regular dogs": Baby, an old, blind, terrier; "bad Peter," loud and cowardly; and "the fluffy little Rags." Anna is the undisputed authority in the household, and in her five years with Miss Mathilda she oversees in turn four under servants: Lizzie, Molly, Katy, and Sallie. Sometimes even the lazy and benign Miss Mathilda feels rebellious under Anna’s iron hand; she is also concerned because Anna is always giving away money, and tries to protect her from her many poor friends."Melanctha", the longest of the Three Lives stories, is an unconventional novella that focuses upon the distinctions and blending of race, sex, gender, and female health. Stein uses a unique form of repetition to portray characters in a new way. "Melanctha", as Mark Schorer on Gale's Contemporary Authors Online depicts it, "attempts to trace the curve of a passion, its rise, its climax, its collapse, with all the shifts and modulations between dissension and reconciliation along the way". But "Melanctha" is more than one woman’s bitter experience with love; it is the representation of the internal struggles and emotional battles in finding meanin
  • Jewish Fairy Tales And Legends

    Gertrude Landa

    eBook (Global Grey, Oct. 24, 2013)
    Published in 1919, this is a fully illustrated book of traditional Jewish fairy tales, based on stories from the Talmud and the Midrash. Chapters include, The Palace Of The Eagles, The Giant Of The Flood, The Fairy Princess Of Ergetz, The Higgledy-Piggledy Palace, The Red Slipper, From Shepherd-Boy To King, Sinbad Of The Talmud, The Paradise In The Sea, The Princess Of The Tower, King Alexander's Adventures, and The Sleep Of One Hundred Years.
  • Tender Buttons

    Gertrude Stein

    language (A Word To The Wise, Jan. 13, 2015)
    Mentor and guide to the Lost Generation of expatriate American writers, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is perhaps better known for her Parisian salon than her literary works. Yet her innovative approach to writing and her originality of thought make the impact of her books on contemporary literature enormous.Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, Tender Buttons "gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers … For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words."Often compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of Tender Buttons offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.
  • Children and Gardens

    Gertrude Jekyll

    Hardcover (Antique Collectors Club Ltd, July 1, 1991)
    Children and Gardens in which the author writes of the need to provide children with proper gardens. Her gentle and thoughtful suggestions are not out of place in today's world.