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  <id type="integer">527495</id>
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    <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas]]>
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    <![CDATA[Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1933</published>
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    <![CDATA[Tender Buttons]]>
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    <![CDATA[Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein's strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this 1915 work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provoking experimental techniques.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1970</published>
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    <![CDATA[Three Lives]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Clear, carefully crafted stories of 3 women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest. Excellent entree to author's later work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1909</published>
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  <id type="integer">250048</id>
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    <![CDATA[Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein]]>
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  <average_rating>4.08</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; &quot;Melanctha&quot;from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
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  <id type="integer">588654</id>
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    <![CDATA[Picasso]]>
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  <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>132</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments: Picasso as founder of Cubism, associate of Apollinaire, Braque, Derain, other notables; titanic, creative spirit. One of Stein’s most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.<br/>]]>
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    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1959</published>
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  <id type="integer">778304</id>
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    <![CDATA[How to Write]]>
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  <ratings_count>119</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Not so much a &quot;how-to&quot; guide as an inspirational journey into the craft of writing by one of the 20th-century's most influential and unconventional literary figures. Also valuable as an entry into Stein's own writings. New preface and introduction by Patricia Meyerowitz.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1973</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">58367</id>
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    <![CDATA[The Making of Americans]]>
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    <![CDATA[In <u><strong>The Making of Americans</strong></u>, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell &quot;a history of a family's progress,&quot; reworking the traditional family saga novel to emcompass her vision of personality &amp; psycological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stien also meditates on her own writing, on the making of <u>The Making of Americans</u>, and on America.<br/><br/><strong>Gertrude Stein</strong> (1874-1946) is one of the most innovative American writers of the modernist period. Dalky archive reissued Stein's <u>A Novel of Thank You</u> in 1994.<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>William H. Gass</strong>, professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of numerous books of criticism &amp; fiction, most recently <u>The Tunnel</u>. <strong>Steven Meyer</strong>, a professor of English at Washington, wrote the introduction of Dalkey Archive's edition of <u>A novel of Thank You</u>. ]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1946</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">58363</id>
  <isbn>0720611970</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780720611977</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Paris France]]>
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  <average_rating>3.87</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>67</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1940</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">152236</id>
  <isbn>0451528727</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780451528728</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">4</text_reviews_count>
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    <![CDATA[Three Lives and Tender Buttons]]>
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  <average_rating>3.78</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>92</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Three short stories and prose poetry by the famous feminist... <em>Three Lives</em> is &quot;a fine new kind of realism.&quot; (William James) <br/><br/> Tender Buttons is &quot;to writing what cubism is to art.&quot; (W.G. Rogers)]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
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  <id type="integer">197563</id>
  <isbn>1878972081</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781878972088</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Everybody's Autobiography]]>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>82</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[Everybody's Autobiography is among the very best of Gertrude's writing--[it] speaks with the true and original voice of Gertrude Stein, without apparent art or bravado.--Janet HobhouseIn 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody's Autobiography is as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a searing meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. Posing as the representative American, Stein transforms her story into history--responding to the tradition of Thoreau and Henry Adams, she writes: &quot;I used to be fond of saying that America, which was supposed to be a land of success, was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early failure and a long life of later failure.&quot; Everybody's Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious, and may yet prove to be among her most popular books.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1971</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">483304</id>
  <isbn>2020314320</isbn>
  <isbn13>9782020314329</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">9</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Ida]]>
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  <average_rating>3.69</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>67</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[This is the story of Ida, whose life consists mainly of resting, because she is always tired; of talking to herself; and of getting married, time after time.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1972</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">673870</id>
  <isbn>1557131694</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781557131690</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">3</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Stanzas in Meditation]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673870.Stanzas_in_Meditation</link>
  <average_rating>4.39</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>71</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Stein's great work/first book appearance since '56 ]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">58359</id>
  <isbn>0941483517</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780941483513</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">5</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Lifting Belly]]>
  </title>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58359.Lifting_Belly</link>
  <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>67</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[A rose is a rose is lifting belly is Gertrude Stein, a loving one.  If you've read Stein before, you have probably heard the term &quot;stream-of-consciousness.&quot; This erotic lesbian love poem is also a stream of pleasure and of love. Rebecca Mark's excellent introduction helps unravel some of the wonderful wordplay that Stein employs. <strong>Lifting Belly</strong> is a book to read aloud to someone who's your passion. Alone. In a romantic setting. Have some wine handy.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">404952</id>
  <isbn>0486408744</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780486408743</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">3</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Geography and Plays]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404952.Geography_and_Plays</link>
  <average_rating>4.43</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>54</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;From one of the modern era's most influential and boldly experimental writers &#8212; a generous collection of poems, stories and plays &#8212; all dating from 1910&#8211;1920. Wide range of the author's styles reveal Stein as philosopher, poet, portraitist, dramatist and short story writer, as the investigator of the nature of language, and much more. &lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1922</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">58362</id>
  <isbn>188301140X</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781883011406</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Stein: Writings 1903-1932: 1903-1932, volume 1]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170507428m/58362.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170507428s/58362.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58362.Stein_Writings_1903_1932_1903_1932_volume_1</link>
  <average_rating>4.29</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>34</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[These days Gertrude Stein is remembered mainly for the notorious &quot;autobiography&quot; she wrote with her lover and long-time companion, Alice B. Toklas. Yet <em>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</em> is only a sliver of that remarkable woman's literary output. Courted during the '20s, dismissed by critics in the '30s, rehabilitated in the '50s, Stein's reputation has ebbed and flowed with every new generation of readers. Now, however, the Library of America has given her its official stamp of approval as a Great American Writer by dedicating its 99th and 100th volumes to collecting together her voluminous works. Volume 1 covers Stein's work between the years 1903 and 1932 and includes a fascinating mix of previously unpublished prose (her 1903 novel <em>Q.E.D.</em>, theater work such as <em>Four Saints in Three Acts</em>, and of course, her poetry, experimental prose, lectures, and essays). For Gertrude Stein aficionados, this collection is a welcome and long-awaited event.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1998</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">695605</id>
  <isbn>1569579059</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781569579053</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">3</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The World is Round (Little Barefoot Books)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/695605.The_World_is_Round</link>
  <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>37</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[This is a facsimile of the limited edition published by Arion  Press, which &quot;produces some of the most beautiful limited-edition books in  the world,&quot; according to the New York Times. To illustrate the first  edition of her only children's book in 1939, Gertrude Stein selected  Clement Hurd from a field of competitors who submitted their work to her.  For the Arion edition, proofs from linoleum and wood blocks cut for the  second edition were modified for photo-engraving. Edith Thacher Hurd, wife  of the well-known illustrator and herself a noted children's book author,  wrote the afterword, an informative memoir that details the history and  creation of the original publication and includes correspondence between  Stein and Hurd.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1939</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">348550</id>
  <isbn>0807063533</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780807063538</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Lectures in America]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246947640m/348550.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246947640s/348550.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/348550.Lectures_in_America</link>
  <average_rating>4.47</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>38</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1935</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">460011</id>
  <isbn>0801851335</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780801851339</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Geographical History of America (PAJ Books)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174948081m/460011.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174948081s/460011.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460011.Geographical_History_of_America</link>
  <average_rating>4.52</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>27</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Geographical History also elaborates on Stein's concepts of identity, landscape, presence, and composition. Today, as literary discourse pays more attention to textuality; to voice, reader-response, and phenomenology, Stein emerges as a pioneering modernist to whom the century is slowly catching up. For those in the performing arts, Geographical History further addresses the notion of play as landscape, one of Stein's most influential theatrical ideas, as well as such issues as dialogue, character, and dramatic structure -- in a book that is itself a model of modern experimentation.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1974</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">871024</id>
  <isbn>1892295164</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781892295163</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073756m/871024.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073756s/871024.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871024.To_Do_A_Book_of_Alphabets_and_Birthdays</link>
  <average_rating>4.32</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>25</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2000</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">311662</id>
  <isbn>0451528271</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780451528278</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Women and Fiction: Stories By and About Women]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173649720m/311662.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173649720s/311662.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311662.Women_and_Fiction_Stories_By_and_About_Women</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Kate Chopin<br/>Edith Wharton<br/>Willa Cather<br/>Colette<br/>Gertrude Stein<br/>Virginia Woolf<br/>Katherine Mansfield<br/>Katherine Anne Porter<br/>Kay Boyle<br/>Eudora Welty<br/>Hortense Calisher<br/>Ann Petry<br/>Mary Lavin<br/>Tillie Olsen<br/>Maeve Brennan<br/>Carson McCullers<br/>Doris Lessing<br/>Grace Paley<br/>Flannery O'Connor<br/>Jean Stubbs<br/>Edna O'Brien<br/>Alice Munro<br/>Joyce Carol Oates<br/>Margaret Drabble<br/>Julie Hayden<br/>Alice Walker]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>198722</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Susan Cahill]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/198722.Susan_Cahill]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.98</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>83</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>22</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>22694</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206549773p2/22694.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22694.Flannery_O_Connor]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.29</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>17600</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1567</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>140774</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jean Stubbs]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/140774.Jean_Stubbs]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.34</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>44</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>5</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>6765</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183232459p5/6765.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183232459p2/6765.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6765.Virginia_Woolf]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.85</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>49526</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>3705</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>7973</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Eudora Welty]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208901008p5/7973.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208901008p2/7973.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7973.Eudora_Welty]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.87</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4414</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>504</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>45712</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Katherine Mansfield]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1216670886p5/45712.jpg]]></image_url>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45712.Katherine_Mansfield]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1142</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>120</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>7184</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Edna O'Brien]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7184.Edna_O_Brien]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1247</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>200</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>398396</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Hortense Calisher]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1250827649p5/398396.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1250827649p2/398396.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/398396.Hortense_Calisher]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>136</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>24</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>6410</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Alice Munro]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245100102p5/6410.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245100102p2/6410.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6410.Alice_Munro]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.08</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>9623</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1286</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>74572</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Katherine Anne Porter]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245828857p5/74572.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245828857p2/74572.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74572.Katherine_Anne_Porter]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.01</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>977</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>136</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>3524</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1191361565p5/3524.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1191361565p2/3524.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3524.Joyce_Carol_Oates]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>37138</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>4597</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>197935</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Kay Boyle]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1249000653p5/197935.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1249000653p2/197935.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/197935.Kay_Boyle]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.69</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>72</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>14</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>106861</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Ann Petry]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/106861.Ann_Petry]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>651</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>105</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>60750</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Margaret Drabble]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1191007782p5/60750.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1191007782p2/60750.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/60750.Margaret_Drabble]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.43</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1627</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>257</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>84847</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Mary Lavin]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/84847.Mary_Lavin]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.18</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>28</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>7</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>89863</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Tillie Olsen]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/89863.Tillie_Olsen]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.06</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>416</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>62</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>495516</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Julie Hayden]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/495516.Julie_Hayden]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>2</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>5132</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Kate Chopin]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5132.Kate_Chopin]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>20857</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1527</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>7380</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1213802628p5/7380.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1213802628p2/7380.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7380.Alice_Walker]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.05</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>38722</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>2374</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>172661</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Maeve Brennan]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/172661.Maeve_Brennan]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>238</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>36</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>3506</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Carson McCullers]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3506.Carson_McCullers]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>16235</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1676</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>16</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Edith Wharton]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16.Edith_Wharton]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>39638</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>3569</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>881203</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Willa Cather]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/881203.Willa_Cather]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.74</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>28749</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>2954</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>7728</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Doris Lessing]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7728.Doris_Lessing]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.66</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>8460</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1294</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>51575</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Colette]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206665516p2/51575.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/51575.Colette]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.96</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2938</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>292</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>41028</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Grace Paley]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206733047p5/41028.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206733047p2/41028.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41028.Grace_Paley]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.23</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1658</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>226</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1975</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">270727</id>
  <isbn>0916870472</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780916870478</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">5</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Blood on the Dining Room Floor: A Murder Mystery]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270727.Blood_on_the_Dining_Room_Floor_A_Murder_Mystery</link>
  <average_rating>4.18</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>22</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1982</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">17286</id>
  <isbn>0871401614</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780871401618</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649465m/17286.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649465s/17286.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286.Fernhurst_Q_E_D_and_Other_Early_Writings</link>
  <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>22</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1971</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">375015</id>
  <isbn>0810110830</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780810110830</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Stein Reader]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174270384m/375015.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174270384s/375015.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375015.A_Stein_Reader</link>
  <average_rating>4.39</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>18</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[excellent big collection by foremost Stein scholar ]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1993</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">180579</id>
  <isbn>1886449163</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781886449169</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Operas &amp; Plays]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172491749m/180579.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172491749s/180579.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180579.Operas_Plays</link>
  <average_rating>4.44</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>18</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Drama. Paperback edition of the beautifully produced clothbound edition published by BOA Editions ifn 1987. This book reproduces OPERAS &amp; PLAYS as published in the 1932 Plain Edition. &quot;The theater of Gertrude Stein is as radical today as it was seventy years ago. These theatrical exercises developed into a dramaturgy stripped bare of the essentials: plot, character development, scenery, stage directions.... Among the modernist writers, Stein remains the last outpost of industrious textual explication -- &quot; James R. Mellow (&quot;Introduction&quot;). &quot;Think they are waiting for the approach of their hope that they will be welcome welcomed by a dog and the hope that they will be very welcome when they come. They will be very welcome when they come. They do delight in being  welcome.&quot; (&quot;Say It With Flowers&quot;). This book is a necessity for every library, public and private. Among the most important and influential of modern experimental writers of prose and poetry, Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1874, raised in Oakland, California and lived in France from 1903 until her death in 1946.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1987</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">695611</id>
  <isbn>0946189110</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780946189113</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">5</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Wars I Have Seen]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/695611.Wars_I_Have_Seen</link>
  <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>16</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1984</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">161399</id>
  <isbn>1581770766</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781581770766</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Useful Knowledge]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172291139m/161399.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172291139s/161399.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161399.Useful_Knowledge</link>
  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>14</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[anthology of Stein's texts ]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1928</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">984860</id>
  <isbn>1564782409</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781564782403</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Lucy Church Amiably]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180011931m/984860.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180011931s/984860.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984860.Lucy_Church_Amiably</link>
  <average_rating>4.31</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>13</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[There is no summarizing or explaining the writings of Gertrude Stein. With the exception of her fledgling efforts like <em>Three Lives</em> or her funny, successful memoir, <em>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</em>, her fictions are without conventional plot, setting, or character. They are intellectual flowers, each sentence growing or receding from the one before it, repeating its main points with subtle, telling changes. In <em>Lucy Church Amiably</em>, first published in Paris in 1930 and long out of print, Stein describes the landscape and pastoral life of central France (while writing, she was staying near a small village named Lucy) in and through her character Lucy Church: &quot;Gradually remembering a lake. Gradually. Remembering. A lake. In gradually remembering a lake by the shore of the lake where they were sitting.&quot; Yet Stein is not opaque or purely musical: she always provides solid details in unexpected places, specializing, as the critic Fred Dupee put it, in &quot;the mingling of apparent conviction with transparent nonsense.&quot; She is a central figure in the modernist movement, but her relentless pleasure in her quirky, handmade idiom can repel the unwary reader. Although it is a delight to have this reprint, a brief introduction would have been useful for the uninitiated. Those interested in Stein should also turn to her <em>Selected Writings</em>, or, for a painless entrée to her work, begin with <em>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</em>. <em>--Regina Marler</em> ]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1969</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1402817</id>
  <isbn>0394716957</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780394716954</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Last operas and plays]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1402817.Last_operas_and_plays</link>
  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>8</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1975</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">993525</id>
  <isbn>0393979032</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780393979039</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Three Lives: AND Q. E. D. (Norton Critical Editions)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180057512m/993525.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180057512s/993525.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/993525.Three_Lives_AND_Q_E_D_</link>
  <average_rating>3.54</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>13</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[This Norton Critical Edition includes both <em>Three Lives</em> and <em>Q.E.D.</em>, first published in 1909 and 1950, respectively. <em>Three Lives</em> is comprised of the stories &quot;The Good Anna,&quot; &quot;Melanchtha,&quot; and &quot;The Gentle Lena.&quot; &quot;Melanchtha&quot; is an adaptation of <em>Q.E.D.</em>, Stein's first completed novel, which remained unpublished until four years after her death.<br/><br/>&quot;<strong>Contexts</strong>&quot; is divided into two sections&#151;&quot;Biography&quot; and &quot;Intellectual Backgrounds&quot;&#151;that highlight the inspirations for and evolutions of <em>Three Lives</em> and discuss the difficult reception Stein's experimental writing met with in the publishing world.<br/><br/>&quot;<strong>Criticism</strong>&quot; collects 19 chronologically arranged essays on Stein's life and work, from pieces written during the decades in which her work was regarded as important primarily for its influence on writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson to the more laudatory scholarship of recent years. Feminism and form, queer studies, interrelations of race and sexuality, African American studies, and primitivism and eugenics are all represented. Among the critical pieces are William Carlos Williams's commentary on Stein's complexity and originality, Richard Bridgman's study of Stein's work as a possible compensation and camouflage for her lesbianism, and Lisa Ruddick's essay connecting feminist analysis to theories of consciousness.<br/><br/>A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.<br/><br/><strong>About the Series</strong>: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the <strong>Norton Critical Editions</strong>. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2006</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">635592</id>
  <isbn>1557133549</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781557133540</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[History or Messages from History]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191186631m/635592.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191186631s/635592.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/635592.History_or_Messages_from_History</link>
  <average_rating>4.62</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>8</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[1930 poetically conceived prosework ]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1956</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1466898</id>
  <isbn>156478049X</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781564780492</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Novel of Thank You]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183895529m/1466898.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183895529s/1466898.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1466898.A_Novel_of_Thank_You</link>
  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[first paperback edition of novel written 1925-26 ]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">871021</id>
  <isbn>1892295369</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781892295361</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Mexico: A Play]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073748m/871021.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073748s/871021.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871021.Mexico_A_Play</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Stein's memorable &quot;play&quot; MEXICO was first printed in the groundbreaking 1922 collection GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS, a book which represents one of the best of the modernist experiments. Stein wrote MEXICO in 1916 upon her and Alice Toklas's return from the Mallorcan countryside where they had gone to escape the war. Although clearly without plot of sustained narrative, the play -- seldom actually about Mexico -- does present images of travel, making the quick linguistic leaps and associations that Stein became known for.]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2000</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">14952</id>
  <isbn>0312185421</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780312185428</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14952.Dear_Sammy_Letters_from_Gertrude_Stein_and_Alice_B_Toklas</link>
  <average_rating>4.80</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among  the correspondents, the striking personalities of Stein and  Toklas, and their life in Paris.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1977</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">673869</id>
  <isbn>0810119196</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780810119192</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises : 1923-1934]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177011867m/673869.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177011867s/673869.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673869.Gertrude_Stein_The_Language_That_Rises_1923_1934</link>
  <average_rating>4.80</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, as most everyone knows, and as we might know <em>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</em> or even &quot;Patriarchal Poetry.&quot;  But Gertrude Stein is far more than her best known words and works, and this monumental study gives us for the first time a finely detailed, deeply felt understanding of both the music and the mechanics of this great modernist master throughout one of her most productive periods.   With <em>The Language that Rises,</em> Ulla Dydo, a reader of Stein without equal, makes apt readers of Stein of us all, and shows us why this unduly neglected and famously difficult writer merits our close attention and appreciation.<br/><br/>Taking up all of Stein's works between the publication of &quot;The Making of Americans&quot; and &quot;Lectures in America,&quot; Dydo examines the process of their making and remaking as they move from notepad to notebook to manuscript-from an idea to its ultimate refinement as the author's intentions and concerns assert themselves.  Though not a biographical study, <em>The Language the Rises</em> sets each text in the context of Stein's daily life and work, showing how the elements of her immediate world  enter her writing to be enlarged upon, deleted, transformed, or combined with other elements of reading or remembering.  The result is an unprecedented view of the development of Stein's work, word by word, text by text, and over time.<br/><br/>The product of over twenty years of intense examination of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts, and letters, this book is the most extensive and detailed study of Stein's way of writing ever written, and as such, suggests answers to the fundamental questions raised by this author's brilliantly opaque works:  what kind of writing was Gertrude Stein writing, and what kind of reading does this writing demand?<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>93557</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Ulla E. Dydo]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/93557.Ulla_E_Dydo]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>2</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1163065</id>
  <isbn>3518390953</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783518390955</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Q. E. D.]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181528345m/1163065.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181528345s/1163065.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1163065.Q_E_D_</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1610197</id>
  <isbn>0300026099</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780300026092</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Yale Gertrude Stein]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1610197.The_Yale_Gertrude_Stein</link>
  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1980</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2643185</id>
  <isbn>0520248066</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780520248069</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">3</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Gertrude Stein: Selections]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2643185.Gertrude_Stein_Selections</link>
  <average_rating>3.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[This selection of Gertrude Stein's work is taken from the period between 1905 and 1936, when the iconic modernist poet was engaged in an astounding number of still-surprising literary experiments, whose innovations continue to influence all the arts. Editor Joan Retallack has chosen complete texts or selections that lend themselves to a clarified vision of Stein's oeuvre. In her brilliant introduction, Retallack provides the historical and biographical context for Stein's lifelong project of composing a &quot;continuous present,&quot; an effort which parallels many of the most important technological and scientific developments of her era--from moving pictures to Einstein's revision of our understanding of space and time. Retallack also addresses persistent questions about Stein's work and the best way to read it in our contemporary moment. In suggesting a performative &quot;reading poesis&quot; for these works, Retallack follows Stein's dictum by arguing that to actively experience the work is to enjoy it, and to enjoy it is to understand it.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2008</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1241833</id>
  <isbn>0876851367</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780876851364</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1241833.A_primer_for_the_gradual_understanding_of_Gertrude_Stein</link>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1975</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">871023</id>
  <isbn>0876851995</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780876851999</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[How Writing Is Written]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871023.How_Writing_Is_Written</link>
  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1975</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1097609</id>
  <isbn>0720612012</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780720612011</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Look At Me Now And Here I Am: Writings and Lectures 1911-1945]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180956826m/1097609.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180956826s/1097609.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1097609.Look_At_Me_Now_And_Here_I_Am_Writings_and_Lectures_1911_1945</link>
  <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Gertrude Stein's radical innovations and continual experiments with language were years ahead of her time. This volume of her writings attempts to dispel some of the misunderstanding that surrounds her work, presenting many of her lectures for the first time. Look At Me Now includes portraits of people-Matisse, Lipschitz, Picasso, Henry James, and others-portraits of objects, her poetry, her novel Ida, and her last work, Brewsie and Willie. Her lectures reveal a precise and original scheme behind her writing, drawing on concepts from William James's theories of the aesthetic to Bergson's notion of time. Originally published in 1971 (Penguin) and out of print for a number of years, this accessible anthology presents some of the best of her startling achievements.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>45698</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Sprigge]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45698.Elizabeth_Sprigge]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.38</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>13</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>513333</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Patricia Meyerowitz]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/513333.Patricia_Meyerowitz]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>0</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1967</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">871033</id>
  <isbn>0871401630</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780871401632</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Gertrude Stein's America]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073767m/871033.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073767s/871033.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871033.Gertrude_Stein_s_America</link>
  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1985</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">660641</id>
  <isbn>0836951662</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780836951660</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems (The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein, v. 6)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/660641.Stanzas_in_Meditation_and_Other_Poems</link>
  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1956</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2284677</id>
  <isbn>1557130167</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781557130167</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Mrs. Reynolds (Sun &amp; Moon Classics, No 1)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2284677.Mrs_Reynolds</link>
  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1987</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2881254</id>
  <isbn>1905422911</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781905422913</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2881254.Correspondence_Pablo_Picasso_and_Gertrude_Stein</link>
  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Carefully edited and presented by period, this extraordinary exchange between two 20th century artistic giants stretches from 1906 to 1944. These newly translated letters, cards and scribbled notes illustrate their intimate correspondence and touch on both the weighty and the everyday—holidays, money, dinner invitations, art, family, lovers, travel arrangements, how work goes—or the war. Fast friends and revolutionary artists, they wrote to each other in French, a language neither ever entirely mastered. Despite this, the letters transcend the language barrier to illustrate a unique and enduring friendship.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>3253</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Pablo Picasso]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198536109p5/3253.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198536109p2/3253.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3253.Pablo_Picasso]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.93</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>114</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>16</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
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        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2008</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Thiss is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account for half the volume. The stories are by turn poignant, violent, harsh, tender and desolating.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mary Butts]]></name>
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    <id>94230</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Richard Aldington]]></name>
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        <name><![CDATA[H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)]]></name>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mulk Raj Anand]]></name>
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        <name><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway]]></name>
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    <id>74248</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Radclyffe Hall]]></name>
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    <text_reviews_count>117</text_reviews_count>
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    <id>2965364</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gwendolyn Bennett]]></name>
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    <id>17623</id>
        <name><![CDATA[D.H. Lawrence]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.57</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>20477</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1560</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>6765</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.85</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>49526</ratings_count>
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    <id>149791</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Wyndham Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>180</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>24</text_reviews_count>
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    <id>16</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Edith Wharton]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16.Edith_Wharton]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>39638</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>3569</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>2380330</id>
        <name><![CDATA[May Sinclair]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>48</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>10</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>3345</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Joseph Conrad]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.46</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>41509</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>2707</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>88930</id>
        <name><![CDATA[J.M. Barrie]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.07</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>9398</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>929</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>33546</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Arthur Machen]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.02</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>601</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>55</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>6989</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Rudyard Kipling]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.88</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>1179</text_reviews_count>
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    <id>1209</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Ford Madox Ford]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1667</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>220</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>6794</id>
        <name><![CDATA[W. Somerset Maugham]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>18772</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>2286</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>197935</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Kay Boyle]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/197935.Kay_Boyle]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.69</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>72</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>14</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>2099139</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Herman Cyril McNeile]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
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    <average_rating>3.73</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">143399</id>
  <isbn>0822955016</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780822955016</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Selected Operas &amp; Plays of Gertrude Stein]]>
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  <average_rating>4.67</average_rating>
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  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1970</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1576251</id>
  <isbn>083695162X</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780836951622</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Bee Time Vine, and Other Pieces, 1913-1927 (The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein, v. 3)]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1576251.Bee_Time_Vine_and_Other_Pieces_1913_1927</link>
  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1953</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2014237</id>
  <isbn>1564783626</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781564783622</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Novel of Thank You (American Literature Series)]]>
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  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255908199s/2014237.jpg</small_image_url>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <description>
    <![CDATA[first paperback edition of novel written 1925-26 ]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p5/9325.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1958</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">1466899</id>
  <isbn>0226771660</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780226771663</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Narration]]>
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  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Gertrude Stein First Reader &amp; Three Plays]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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        <book>
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</book>

        <book>
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    <![CDATA[The letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946]]>
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    <author>
    <id>77261</id>
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</book>

        <book>
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  <isbn13>9780895943804</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Really Reading Gertrude Stein]]>
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  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206893424p2/9325.jpg]]></small_image_url>
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    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">604517</id>
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  <isbn13>9780876851678</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Reflection on the Atomic Bomb (The Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein, Volume I)]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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  <isbn13>9780810120051</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Loving, Repeating]]>
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    <![CDATA[Frank Galati's dramatic adaptation of Gertrude Stein's texts begins with Stein at age 60 as she is lecturing at the University of Chicago in 1934.  She starts to speak about her writing, specifically her use of repetition, and to connect this idea with her own life experiences.  A young Gertrude then appears to guide the audience through her memories of her life as a student, falling in love with Alice B. Toklas, their time together in France and Alice's account of Stein's final day.   These vignettes, each culminating in a song (music by Stephen Flaherty), adeptly encapsulate the joy and passion of Stein's life and work, and the depth and complexity of a lesbian romance.  Galati sheds new light on Stein's views on language, communication, and ideas by emphasizing how her art evolved from her fascination with the repetition of human behavior-as Stein sings to the audience &quot;Loving repeating is one way of being.&quot;<br/>]]>
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    <id>51147</id>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>634</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>74</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2619796</id>
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  <isbn13>9780822201496</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Brewsie and Willie.]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2619796.Brewsie_and_Willie_</link>
  <average_rating>2.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>1154978</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Lisabeth Blake]]></name>
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    <average_rating>2.00</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>0</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1960</published>
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        <book>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[小説アイダ]]>
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    <author>
    <id>828240</id>
        <name><![CDATA[落石 八月月]]></name>
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    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
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    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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  <isbn13>9784122005815</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[三人の女]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[ガートルード・スタイン]]></name>
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    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1978</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1811784</id>
  <isbn>4838702019</isbn>
  <isbn13>9784838702015</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
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    <![CDATA[三人の女]]>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>828240</id>
        <name><![CDATA[落石 八月月]]></name>
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    <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
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    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">1811788</id>
  <isbn>4622011697</isbn>
  <isbn13>9784622011699</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[パリ フランス―個人的回想]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>828241</id>
        <name><![CDATA[ガートルード・スタイン]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
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    <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <author>
    <id>9325</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>4227</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>411</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1977</published>
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