Gertrude Stein Three Lives 1933 Modern Library Hardcover Dustjacket By Lustig

Previously owned

In good condition

The dust jacket has been torn and is missing the bottom quarter part. There are also small chips around the edges of the dust jacket.

Pages are flat and mostly clean

The binding is intact.

Gertrude Stein

Three Lives

PREFACE BY CARL VAN VECHTEN

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1st Modern Library Edition

From dust jacket inside flap:

“Three Lives was Miss Stein's first published book (1909), written not long after she settled in France. It is a little masterpiece, to be compared to Flaubert's Trois Contes, from which it somewhat derives; and its style and method influenced a whole generation of American writers. As The Saturday Review once said, "Three Lives stands as a massive doorpost in the entrance to the latest and best in American literature."

Three Lives tells the story of three plain and humble women-The Good Anna and The Gentle Lena, both household servants, and Melanctha, a young girl involved in an unhappy love affair. Simple material, but written with a directness that gives it immense force. In fact, that simplicity and directness, both in style and tech-nique, are what make the book. At the turn of the century conventional literary style had reached an all-time semantic low; it was language so ridden with stereotyped phrases and cadences that it could hardly convey any fresh meanings whatever. Three Lives was the revolutionary explosion that started the reverse trend which produced the lean, hard styles of Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Williams and their countless followers. Few books have done more valuable service.”

PREFACE BY CARL VAN VECHTEN

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