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310 pp. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933. [1] It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. In 1998, Modern Library ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
- Gertrude Stein
- 310 pp
- 1933
- 1933
Alice B. Toklas was born in San Francisco into a middle-class Polish Jewish family. Her paternal grandfather was a rabbi, [2] whose son Feivel (usually known as Ferdinand) Toklas moved to San Francisco in 1863. In 1876, Ferdinand Toklas married Emma (Emelia) Levinsky and they had two children: Alice and her brother Clarence Ferdinand (1887–1924).
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643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. In 1998, Modern Library ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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- Gertrude Stein
About The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time ‘I always wanted to be historical,’ Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the ‘autobiography’ of her longtime friend and companion, Alice B. Toklas.
- Gertrude Stein
- Paperback
On the 75th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's death, Cath Pound looks back at the author's bestselling book, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, which shocked and insulted the most famous writers ...
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, book by Gertrude Stein, written in the voice of her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Published in 1933, the work ostensibly contains Toklas’s first-person account not of her own life but of Stein’s, written from Toklas’s viewpoint and replete with Toklas’s.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, published in 1933, is Gertrude Stein 's best-selling work and her most accessible. Consisting of seven chapters covering the first three decades of the twentieth century, the book is only incidentally about Toklas's life. Its real subject, and narrator, is Stein herself, who reportedly had asked Toklas, her ...
