Paris France by Gertrude Stein
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.'
Gertrude Stein’s Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.
-
The Fire Next Time
-
The Driver's Seat
-
Chess
-
The House of Hunger
-
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
-
The Burial of the Rats
-
The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
-
The Daemon Lover
-
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
-
Where Everything is Music
-
Can Socialists be Happy?
-
The Blazing World
-
A Dog's Heart
-
A Dill Pickle
-
Transformation
-
A Hunger-Artist
-
Why I am a Stoic
-
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
-
Lamb to the Slaughter
-
The New Dress
-
Coal
-
Secretary
-
Thousand Cranes
-
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
-
The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
-
Night Flight
-
A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
-
After Midnight
-
Horsie
-
The Rich Boy
-
For Art and for Life
-
Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
-
To Read and Dream
-
The Story of an Hour
-
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
-
Lady L.
-
The Prose Edda
-
The Umbrella
-
Requiem
-
Tristessa
-
Family Happiness
-
Some Japanese Ghosts
-
Lois the Witch
-
Unpacking My Library
-
The Country of the Pointed Firs
-
A Lost Lady
-
No Coward Soul Is Mine
-
Stan the Killer
-
Closely Watched Trains
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.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241746806 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241746809 |
| Title | Paris France |
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| Series | Penguin Archive |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |