Listen to Me

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she left for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures, which double as a manifesto for her own, notoriously difficult work, to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members' clubs and public spaces up and down the country. The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writer's thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life. Listen to Me brings Stein's sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected and introduced by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.

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  1. 101 Great American Poems : To My Dear and Loving Husband, The Planting of the Apple-Tree, Concord Hymn, The Arrow and the Song, Alone, Annabel Lee and others

    Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes Holmes, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Frances E. W. W Harper, Emily Dickinson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gertrude Stein, Vachel Lindsay, Claude Mckay, Countee Cullen, Amy Lowell, James Oppenheim, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emma Lazarus, Louisa May Alcott, Ellis Parker Butler, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Matthew Arnold, William Butler Yeats, William Blake, Sara Teasdale, William Barnes

  2. Everything We've Done: Female Poets of WW1

    Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, Margaret Postgate Cole, Gertrude Stein, Katharine Tynan, Edith Wharton, Jessie Pope, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Vera Mary Brittain, Various

  3. The Poetry of World War One

    Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, Katharine Tynan, Jessie Pope, Laurence Binyon, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Francis Ledwidge, Ivor Gurney, Mary Borden, Gertrude Stein

  4. GERTRUDE STEIN Premium Collection: 60+ Poems, Tales & Plays in One Volume : Enriched edition. Exploring the avant-garde world of literary innovation and modernist experimentation

    Gertrude Stein

  5. GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays : Enriched edition. Exploring Avant-Garde Literary Legacy

    Gertrude Stein

  6. 3.0

    THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (Modern Classics Series) : Enriched edition. Glance at the Parisian early 20th century avant-garde (One of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century)

    Gertrude Stein

  7. The Making of Americans

    Gertrude Stein

  8. Geography and Plays

    Gertrude Stein

  9. Three Lives

    Gertrude Stein

  10. Tender Buttons

    Gertrude Stein

  11. Composition as Explanation

    Gertrude Stein

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