Useful Knowledge

 By Gertrude Stein

 Publication: Payson & Clarke, Ltd. (New York): 1928.

 Book Description: Hardcover book with a clear plastic dust jacket. Strong spine with slight wear at the top. Thick undamaged and unmarked pages. Previous owner pasted in photo of Ms. Stein.

About the book: Useful Knowledge is pleasant and therefore it is very much to be enjoyed, writes Gertrude Stein in her Advertisement for this Book-an apt characterization of the experience of reading it sixty years after its disappearance from print. Despite her long expatriation, she always remained in her words, firmly born in Allegheny Pennsylvania. Indeed- physical detachment from her homeland seems only to have deepened her love for the country, a passion very nearly erotic, that blossomed in this private remembrance that is both tender and humorous. War, Woodrow Wilson, Chicago, Sherwood Anderson-such is the range of her intimate concerns. 

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