Other editions of book Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena

Three Lives was American writer Gertrude Stein. The book is separated into three stories, "The Good Anna", "Melanctha", and "The Gentle Lena". The book is divided into three stories, "The Good Anna," "Melanctha," and "The Gentle Lena." The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint. Each one is a psychological portrait of the named protagonist. All three are members of the lower socioeconomic stratum of Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore.

Gertrude Stein’s first—and perhaps best—book is split into three stories: "The Good Anna", "Melanctha", and "The Gentle Lena". All three stand alone, but each is set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore. Each of these working-class women struggle to find happiness amidst a turbulent world, one in which they are often beset by domestic adversaries and held back by society at large. Here, Stein’s trademark style is more accessible, but nonetheless some of that early magic shines through. Three Stories remains an essential entry in the modernist literary tradition and the perfect introduction to Stein’s body of work.

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Excerpt from Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle LenaThe tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned to dread the sound of Miss Mathilda, for with that name the good Anna always conquered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned to dread the sound of "Miss Mathilda", for with that name the good Anna always conquered. The strictest of the one price stores found that they could give things for a little less, when the good Anna had fully said that "Miss Mathilda" could not pay so much and that she could buy it cheaper "by Lindheims." Lindheims was Anna's favorite store, for there they had bargain days, when flour and sugar were sold for a quarter of a cent less for a pound, and there the heads of the departments were all her friends and always managed to give her the bargain prices, even on other days. Anna led an arduous and troubled life. Anna managed the whole little house for Miss Mathilda. It was a funny little house, one of a whole row of all the same kind that made a close pile like a row of dominoes that a child knocks over, for they were built along a street which at this point came down a steep hill. They were funny little houses, two stories high, with red brick fronts and long white steps. This one little house was always very full with Miss Mathilda, an under servant, stray dogs and cats and Anna's voice that scolded, managed, grumbled all day long.- Taken from "Three Lives" written by Gertrude Stein

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