The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
New Ed edition
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Word Count
85,500 words, Guess
Page Count
342 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7699582M
- ISBN-139780679600817
- ISBN-100679600817
- OCLC Control Number27813118
- OCLC Control Number1019884590
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number93015339
- LibraryThing3570
- Goodreads14950
Classifications
- LCCPS3537.T323
- LCCPS3537.T323 Z463 1993
Description
'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alice B. Toklas. The book, an immediate bestseller, guaranteed them both a place in history. An account of their life together in Paris before, during, and after World War I, it is full of the atmosphere of the changing life of the city and of idiosyncratic glimpses of such figures as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, and other luminaries and aspirants who were their close friends. But at the center of the narrative there is always the titanic figure of Gertrude Stein, the self-proclaimed 'first-class genius' who some dismissed as the 'Mother Goose of Montparnasse,' presiding over her celebrated residence-salon-art gallery at 27, rue de Fleurus. William Troy remarked about her: 'It is not flippant to say that if she had not come to exist . . . it would be necessary to invent Miss Gertrude Stein.'
Description
Through the eyes of Miss Toklas, Gertrude Stein reviews both of their lives before their meeting and during their years of companionship.
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