Three Lives

By Gertrude Stein

Book Overview

First published in 1909, the great American version of Flaubert's Trois Contes recounts the lives of three plain and humble women, two working as household servants and the third, a Black woman, involved in an unhappy love affair. But to express these revelatory fictions in this manner is to miss everything, for Stein's language of the first decade of the 20th century is still as fresh today as if the characters had just created the American tongue. Lyn Hejinian adds new perceptions about this work in her introduction. The unforgettable stories of three women, told with poignancy and compassion by one of the most important writers of our century.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743436547
• ISBN13: 9780743436540
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Howard Publishing Co
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.8" x 8.3"