The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress

Gertrude Stein

Dalkey Archive Press, 1995 - Fiction - 925 pages

In "The Making of Americans," Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of "The Making of Americans," and on America.

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THE MAKING OF AMERICANS

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS introduced Gertrude Stein to many readers who had not been able to break through the complexities of her medium of expression previously. So it is timely to ...

The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress (American Literature Series)

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From the "I can't believe this is out of print" file comes Stein's monster of a novel, which was initially serialized by Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford in the Transatlantic Review. Although Stein does ...

Contents

• The Dehnings and the Herslands: 3
• The Hersland Parents: 33
• Mrs Hersland and the Hersland Children: 150

About the author

Famous writer Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, PA and was educated at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins medical school. Stein wrote Three Lives, The Making of Americans, and Tender Buttons, all of which were considered difficult for the average reader. She is most famous for her opera Four Saints in Three Acts and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was actually an autobiography of Stein herself. With her companion Alice B. Toklas, Stein received the French government's Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise for theory work with the American fund for French Wounded in World War I. Gertrude Stein died in Neuilly-ser-Seine, France on July 27, 1946.

William Gaddis (1922-98) stands among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The winner of two National Book Awards (for "J R" [1976] and "A Frolic of His Own" [1995]), he wrote five novels during his lifetime, including "Carpenter's Gothic "(1985), "Agap? Agape" (published posthumously in 2002), and his early masterpiece "The Recognitions" (1955). He is loved and admired for his stylistic innovations, his unforgettable characters, his pervasive humor, and the breadth of his intellect and vision.

Steven Meyer is Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress; American Literature (Dalkey Archive) Series; American literature series; Dalkey Archive paperbacks
• Author: Gertrude Stein
• Contributors: William H. Gass, Steven Meyer
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 1995
• ISBN: 1564780880, 9781564780881
• Length: 925 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General; Fiction / General