Audiobooks by Gertrude Stein

The Jewish Author - A Short Story Collection

We love to stereotype, to typecast and to pigeon hole. It’s one of our organising traits that serves many uses but also serves to stain and segregate, to find fault and to point out blame.In this volume we see if that servant can have two masters and two functions.The Jewish culture has been a mesmerizing source of life, art, tragedy, and beauty for millennia.To be Jewish is not a simple example of one person or one family; it is a collective form of identity. Jewish history has often been rightfully portrayed as turbulent, as a people being unfairly oppressed and downtrodden; marked out for discrimination and even death. But Jewish history also has darker notes against others when in its own ascendancy. Within this volume of short stories we have exampled people who thought of themselves as Jewish and wove that together with their literary skills to create some quite dazzling and unexpected works. These short stories explore and examine society and the lives all around them in times when the Jewish authors themselves were being closely watched. 1 - The Jewish Author - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka3 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein4 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel5 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine6 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy7 - Jezebel of Valley Farm by E Philips Oppenhein8 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill9 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening10 - Chopin Op 47 by Stanley Victor Makower11 - August by Bruno Schulz12 - The Book Binder of Hort by Leoplod von Sacher-Masoch

Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Isaac Babel (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Foundations of Fiction - Modernism

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving. Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues. It’s a reality that the term ‘modernism’ was first used for stories well over a century ago. Like fine wines they have aged remarkably well. In this volume the talents of Virginia Woolf, F Scott Fitzgerald, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce are testament to the craft, imagination and literary chops these authors have brought to prose in one of its most enduring literary movements. 01 - Foundations of Fiction - Modernism - An Introduction2 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield3 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald4 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf5 - The Dead by James Joyce6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker7 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence8 - If I Were A Man by Charlotte Perkins Gilman9 - Tomorrow by Eugene O'Neill10 - Friday by Zona Gale11 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon12 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein13 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf14 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield15 - Eveline by James Joyce16 - His Smile by Susan Glaspell17 - A Cullenden of Virginia by Thomas Wolfe18 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield19 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner20 - Winter Dreams by F Scott Fitzgerald21 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf22 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington23 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis24 - Araby by James Joyce25 - The Ice Palace by F Scott Fitzgerald26 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield27 - White Bread by Zona Gale28 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield

Booth Tarkington, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D.H. Lawrence, Damon Runyon, Dorothy Parker, Eugene O'Neill, F Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, Susan Glaspell, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Zona Gale (Author), Eric Meyers, Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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Tender Buttons

Tender Buttons By Gertrude Stein Narrated by Amy Soakes Gertrude Stein's work flourished in a world which was finding bold new ways of expressing itself. Forms like Impressionism, cubism, expressionsism and other non-representational styles were developed that provoked and challenged the observer (as well as the established art world). What avant-garde artists did with paint and ink, Gertrude Stein did with words –dispensing with conventions of grammar and clarity, she gave free rein to word play and the musicality of sounds, without regard to their meaning or relationships. For Stein, words were as colours on a palette or as chords in a piece of music. In Tender Buttons, she combines words with a blatant disregard of rule and regulation, indulging in a free-association responseto the images in front of her. Written in 1914, Tender Buttons is a prime example of Gertrude's unique vision and her imaginative response to a brave new world of art on the cusp of reinventing itself. Production copyright 2021 Amy Soakes.

Gertrude Stein (Author), Amy Soakes (Narrator)

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The World Is Round

Published to commemorate its 75th anniversary, The World Is Round brings back into print the classic story created by Gertrude Stein and Clement Hurd. Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose, a whimsical tale that delights in wordplay and sound while exploring the ideas of personal identity and individuality. This stunning volume replicates the original 1939 edition to a T, including all of Clement Hurd's original blue-and-white art printed on the rose-pink paper that Stein insisted upon. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book. The first, a foreword by Clement Hurd's son, author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, includes previously unpublished photographs and sheds light on a creative family life in Vermont, where his father and mother, author Edith Thacher Hurd, often collaborated on children's books. The second essay, an afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd, takes readers behind the scenes of the making of The World Is Round, including the numerous letters exchanged between Hurd and Stein as well as images of Stein with the real-life Rose and her white poodle, Love. ***Please contact Member Services for additional documents***

Clement Hurd, Gertrude Stein, Thacher Hurd (Author), Kate Mulgrew, Kate Mulgrew, Thacher Hurd (Narrator)

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