Three Lives
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing FFEP, text clean, binding tight/DJ Fair: age toning/soil, spine sunned, chipping with loss, heavy edge wear, NOT clipped.
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1933. first thus. hardcover. Book VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing FFEP, text clean, binding tight/DJ Fair: age toning/soil, spine sunned, chipping with loss, heavy edge wear, NOT clipped.. 16mo 279pp. from front flap: "Three Lives was Miss Stein's first published book (1909), written not long after she settled in France. It is a little masterpiece, to be compared to Flaubert's Trois Contes, from which it somewhat derives; and its style and method influenced a whole generation of American writers. As The Saturday Review once said, "Three Lives stands as a massive doorpost in the entrance to the latest and best in American literature." #02391.
Synopsis
Three Lives (1909) was Gertrude Stein's first published work. 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 the fictional town of Bridgepoint.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2326
- Title
- Three Lives
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing FFEP, text clean, binding tight
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Fair: age toning/soil, spine sunned, chipping with loss, heavy edge wear, NOT clipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first thus
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- fiction, literature,
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Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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