Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932 (LOA #99): Q.E.D. / Three Lives / Portraits and Other Short Works / The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

This Library of America volume, along with its companion, surveys a literary trajectory that from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of World War II marked Gertrude Stein as a fearless and uncompromising experimenter. She was also a master of anecdote and aphorism, many of whose phrases—from “rose is a rose is a rose” to “there is no there there” and “when this you see remember me”—have passed into the language.

This first volume, containing works written between 1903 and 1932, tak...