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The life of Gertrude Stein written by herself as though it were the autobiography of her secretary, Alice B. Toklas.

The life of Gertrude Stein written by herself as though it were the autobiography of her secretary, Alice B. Toklas.

"Literary detective David Burke explores the most creative quartiers of the City of Light - the Latin Quarter and the Marais, raffish Montmartre, "Lost Generation" Montparnasse, and others - and tracks down the haunts of dozens of the world's finest and most colorful writers in this unique look at literature's greatest city." "From native Parisians such as Moliere and Marcel Proust to expatriates like Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett, Writers in Paris...

In 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to the sophisticated and exhilarating city of Paris, where he spent the next five years as minister from the new United States of America. These were formative years for France, for the United States, and for Jefferson's cultural and intellectual development. This engaging book recreates in word and illustration the atmosphere and personalities of prerevolutionary Paris, and it reveals the profound impact they had on...

This program presents Paris as the city razed and rebuilt by Napoleon III. It features the magnificent salons of Paris, the founding of the Louvre, and the creation of many other buildings and institutions, such as the opera and train stations. The artistic works of Manet and the avant-garde movement conjure a Paris on the precipice of a new, modern era.

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were major cultural figures in 1920s Paris, photographed by Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso, and written about by Hemingway. Alice was convinced from her first meeting with Gertrude that she was in the presence of genius, and dedicated herself to seeing Gertrude get the recognition that genius deserved.

Explores how the atmosphere and people of Paris lead to the development of modern art at the beginning of the twentieth century and profiles influential artists and writers of the era. From an acclaimed French writer, a vivid & compelling history of the most remarkable period in international culture: the birth of modernism in the cross-cultural ferment that was Paris in the early 1900s. A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most...

"On almost every Saturday of the first half of the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein would open her door to the likes of Picasso and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Cocteau and Apollinaire, welcoming them into a salon alive with vivid avant-garde paintings and sparkling intellectual conversation. In Charmed Circle, James R. Mellow has re-created this fascinating world and the complex woman who dominated it. His engaging narrative illuminates Stein's...