Geography and Plays

by Gertrude Stein and Paul Padgette

Book Overview

Gertrude Stein is now recognized as the greatest innovator in American modernist writing and this is her masterpiece - as exhilarating, exciting and fascinating as the day it was published. This is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486408744
• ISBN13: 9780486408743
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Miracle year

Of the three great books published 1922/23--Ulysses, The Wasteland, and Geography and Plays--I rate Stein's work the highest. It is a bit daunting at first, though you will probably be amused at least by the wit on every page. But for experiments in poetry, plays, and prose, it by far outstrips Joyce and Eliot. The one essential modernist work. So advanced it is actually postmodernist in its approach to its audience, including, as it does, echoes of what is happening now around her so as to achieve a release from time and to become essentially timeless. Try it and see. This is a great investment. The first edition in four separate bindings is worth seeking out, though Stein tends to be pricey. But just read it in any edition. You'll love it. Bob Finley