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Makes available at reasonable cost Stein's 1922 collection. Preceding the original introduction by Sherwood Anderson is an "Introduction to the Achievement of Gertrude Stein" by Cyrena N. Pondrom, and an anaylsis of the contents of the work by style and chronology. Notes on the contents and dates, an index of works, and a bibliography follow the selections. Paper edition (unseen), ($14.95). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Geography and Plays is a cornucopia of genre: there are poems, stories, plays, portraits, and perhaps ‘essays’. In short, the collection is a one-volume introduction to the most boldly experimental period in the work of the most boldly experimental American writer of the twentieth century.”—Cyrena N. Pondrom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“More and more clearly, Stein is being seen for what she is: one of the towering figures of modernism and of experiments with language and literary genre. Geography and Plays is a central text in Stein’s oeuvre and in literary modernism.”—Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University
“Here is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even foregone the privilege of writing the Great American Novel, uplifting our English-speaking stage and wearing the bays of the great poets, to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, and all the other forgotten and neglected citizens of the sacred and half-forgotten city.”—Sherwood Anderson, from the Introduction to the 1922 edition.
