Geography and Plays

Gertrude Stein

Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1922 - Biography & Autobiography - 447 pages

Geography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s writing from about 1908 to 1920. Originally published in 1922 with an introduction by Sherwood Anderson, it was almost inaccessible for many years. This edition makes it possible for students and other devotees of Stein to see the developing strategies of one of the acknowledged giants of literary modernism, whose pathbreaking departures in literary style have recently been assigned still greater importance in light of new theories about women’s writing. An introduction by Cyrena N. Pondrom provides contemporary readers with a fine orientation to the importance of Stein’s achievement in this early work.

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Review: Geography and Plays

User Review  - Kiran - Goodreads

I'm going to dip in and out of this for the next few weeks, I think. I've read about a dozen or so of the entries so far. Tender Buttons remains my favourite of Stein's, but 'Miss Furr and Miss Skeene' and 'Ada' come close. Her writing is certainly... yes. It is certainly.

Review: Geography and Plays

User Review  - Jon Wagner - Goodreads

It's Stein so...best served by reading a little. Took awhile to read this but that's just because of the inevitable, purposeful repetition.

Contents

• An Introduction to the Achievement: vii
• Analysis of Contents of Geography and Plays: lvi
• The Work of Gertrude Stein: 5
• Susie Asado: 13
• prosepoetry: 23
• France 1913: 27
• Americans: 39
• Italians: 46
• A Sweet Tail gypsies: 65
• Portrait of Prince B D 1913 150: 75
• England 1913: 82
• Mallorcan Stories 1916: 96
• The King or Something the public is invited: 122
• Publishers the Portrait Gallery and: 134
• Roche: 141
• Braque1913: 144
• Portrait of Prince B D: 150
• Portrait of Constance Fletcher: 157
• Advertisements 1916 341: 166
• Americans 1913 39: 176
• One van vechten: 199
• transitional pieces: 202
• plays monologues and dialogues: 203
• What Happened A Play in Five Acts: 205
• Do Let Us Go Away A Play: 215
• Please Do Not Suffer APlayu6 262: 227
• Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked: 239
• Every Afternoon A Dialogue 1916: 254
• Do Let Us Go Away A Play 1916 215: 260
• He Said It Monologue: 267
• Counting Her Dresses A Play: 275
• Like It to Be a Play A Play: 286
• Bonne Annee A Play 1916: 302
• A Family of Perhaps Three: 331
• Advertisements: 341
• Pink Melon Joy: 347
• If You Had Three Husbands: 377
• Late war and postwar pieces usually more political: 392
• Tourty or Tourtebattre a story of the great: 401
• and ask asia: 407
• The Psychology of Nations or What Are: 416
• Notes on Contents and Dates of Composition 42 3: 421
• Susie Asado 1912 13: 423
• early plays: 430
• 3: 436
• What Happened A Play in Five Acts 1913 205: 439
• Not Sightly A Play 1914 2 90: 445

About the author

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is also the author of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and dozens of other novels, plays, poems, and stories. Cyrena N. Pondrom is professor of English and director of the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Geography and Plays
• Author: Gertrude Stein
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1922
• ISBN: 0299134741, 9780299134747
• Length: 447 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Women Authors