The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover. Alice B. Toklas, as narrator of the work, says she was born into an affluent family in San Francisco. Later she met Gertrude Stein's mother during the San Francisco fires and finally decided to move to Paris in 1907. Alice talks about the important role of Helene, Gertrude's housemaid, in their household in Paris. She mentions preparations for an art exhibition. She discusses Picasso and his mistress Fernande. The couple break up and...
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quick facts
Author:Gertrude Stein
Genre:Autobiography, Biography
Year published:1933
Number of editions:10

Author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946
Birthplace:Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Education:Johns Hopkins University, Radcliffe College

Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France. Gertrude Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania to upper-class German Jewish parents, Daniel and Amelia Stein. Her father was a...
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Three Lives Fiction
Everybody's Autobiography
Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms
Retratos
acquaintance with description
From The making of Americans
Bee time vine
Lectures in America
Fania Marinoff & Carl Van Vechten offer you warm holiday greetings with Two (hitherto unpublished) poems by Gertrude Stein
Writings, 1903-1932
Mrs. Reynolds
What are masterpieces
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the villa Curonia
Five short war poems
elucidation
Wars I Have seen
Brewsie et Willie
Composition as explanation
first reader & three plays
book concluding with As a wife has a cow
Reflection on the atomic bomb
How writing is written
geographical history of America
Motor automatism
Things as they are
As fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930
Yale Gertrude Stein
Useful Knowledge
Two: Gertrude Stein and her brother
Guerras Que He Visto
Really reading Gertrude Stein
Jedermanns Autobiographie
Drei Leben. Erzählungen. ( Sammlung Luchterhand im DTV)
Four in America
Have they attacked Mary. He giggled
The world is round
America and Alfred Stieglitz
Alphabets and Birthdays
Narration
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded
Blood on the dining-room floor
Dear Sammy
letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder
Mexico
History or Messages from History
In Savoy or Yes Is for a Very Young Man
Américains d'Amérique
Last operas and plays
3 Lives
Painted lace
Brewsie and Willie
Ida
Kriege die ich gesehen habe
Lucretia Borgia
How to Write
To Do
Les guerres que j'ai vues
Picasso
primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein
Die geographische Geschichte von Amerika
Four saints in three acts
Operas & plays
Stein reader
Lifting Belly Poetry
Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems
making of Americans
Operas and plays
Lucy Church, amiably
Kisses can
Paris France
Trois vies
Baby precious always shines
Erzählen
Zarte Knöpfe. Tender Buttons
Selected writings of Gertrude Stein
Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein
previously uncollected writings of Gertrude Stein
An acquaintance with description
Dix portraits
An elucidation
Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings
Geography and plays
Gertrude Stein
The letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Money
Narration
A novel of thank you
On our way
Paris France
Picasso
Portraits and prayers
Selected writings
Two
Useful knowledge
Writings, 1932-1946
Writings and lectures 1911-1945
The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein
The Making of Americans
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Frequently Asked Questions

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    "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is of which literary genre?
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    The written work is labeled as: Autobiography and Biography.
  • Q:
    What year was the work "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" first made available to the public?
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    The work was first distributed in 1933.
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    How many pages is the book: "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"?
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    The book consists of 252 pages.
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    "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is of the category: Paris

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