ISBN: 9781540358868

Three Lives, Stein's collection of three biographical portraits of lower-class women, combines French literary realism with American psychological theory. Two stories describe the monoton… More...

Three Lives, Stein's collection of three biographical portraits of lower-class women, combines French literary realism with American psychological theory. Two stories describe the monotonous lives of Anna and Lena, two German servant girls in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Williams James's psychological theories inspired Stein's episodic style, which transports the reader directly into the characters' consciousness, especially in Melanctha, the longest of the three stories. The psychological drama of Three Lives consists in the protagonists' search for the right words to express their identities. Trapped in their socially realistic, simplistic vocabulary and in perpetually repetitive speech patterns, these women fail to communicate their dreams of love and emotional fulfillment. Anna, of The Good Anna, is a soft tyrant with a firm Old World sense of the appropriate ugliness of things. Her hard and arduous life rests on her overdeveloped sense of mothering others: Miss Mathilda, her friends, and the maids, whom she perpetually scolds to improve their characters. Her friend Mrs. Lehntman-the only romance Anna ever knew-exploits Anna's desire to give money and affection but then leaves her. Shortly afterward, Miss Mathilda moves from the town into the country. Thus abandoned by the women who had governed her life, Anna opens a boardinghouse but charges her guests too little to cover her... Trade Books>Trade Paperback>SF&Fantasy>Fantasy>Fantasy, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

2016, ISBN: 1540358860

[EAN: 9781540358868], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Three Lives was American writer Gertrude Stein. The boo… More...

[EAN: 9781540358868], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Three Lives was American writer Gertrude Stein. The book is separated into three stories, "The Good Anna", "Melanctha", and "The Gentle Lena". The book is divided into three stories, "The Good Anna," "Melanctha," and "The Gentle Lena." The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint. Each one is a psychological portrait of the named protagonist. All three are members of the lower socioeconomic stratum of Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore., Books<

2016, ISBN: 1540358860

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2016, ISBN: 1540358860

[EAN: 9781540358868], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days., Books

2016, ISBN: 1540358860

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