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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By Gertrude Stein
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein offers a charming portrait of their life together through the lens of Toklas, Stein's lifelong partner. Set against the backdrop of 20th-century Paris, the book recounts their interactions with influential artists and writers, providing insights into Stein's own illustrious career and the vibrant cultural milieu they inhabited. It's a unique blend of memoir and biography that captures the essence of an extraordinary era.
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this title offers a definitive account by an American in Paris.

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is, in fact, Gertrude Stein's own autobiography, seen through the eyes of her friend, Alice B. Toklas. With occasional glimpses into her early life, it describes her years in Paris until 1932.

At 27 Rue de Fleurus, Gertrude Stein established a formidable literary and artistic salon, and this book provides a record of her friendships with some of the world's foremost artists and writers—Picasso, Apollinaire, Matisse, and Braque. It also includes her impressions of Paris during World War I and then the post-war American "invasion".

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein is praised for its engaging storytelling and unique narrative style, merging Stein's and Toklas's conversational tones. Reviewers highlight the book as a rich, witty, and irreverent portrayal of their experiences and interactions within Paris's vibrant cultural scene over nearly three decades. It is noted for its vivid anecdotes and refined prose, providing both a personal memoir and a testament to a remarkable period in history.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141185361

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 April 2001

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 205g

Pages: 272

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Biography & Memoir Gertrude Stein Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Gertrude Stein was a titan of early feminism and one of the great pioneers of the modernist world. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Stein lived through a period of global upheaval, writing groundbreaking literature and supporting emerging poets and artists. Luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were regular visitors at her famous Paris salon, where she lived with her life partner of forty years, Alice B. Toklas. Her complex personal beliefs and politics still defy easy categorisation, inspiring controversy to this day. Stein was a one-woman renegade literary movement, and her body of work - including Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - broke a long succession of moulds. When she died in 1946, Gertrude Stein was a transcontinental literary icon, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

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