A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart language and association and find thrilling new ways to express the true essence of her subject with charming joie de vivre. Stein considered her shorter writings to be the truest expressions of her enrapturing style. Her fascination with people and personalities can be located in expressive portraits of close friends Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Cezanne, Jean Cocteau, and Juan Gris, whilst her decades-long relationship with Alice B. Toklas is immortalised with shimmering eroticism. There are also playful meditations on her unique writing process, conveying her serious delight in meddling with conventions of grammar and composition. Confirmed Table of Contents:     Ada     Portrait of Mabel Dodge     Matisse     Picasso     Miss Fur and Miss Skeene     Flirting at the Bon Marche     Susie Asado     Preciosilla     Sacred Emily     One     Ladies Voices     Accents in Alsace     Idem the Same     Cezanne     A Book Concluding with As A Wife Has a Cow     Van or Twenty Years Later     If I Told Him     Juan Gris     Identify a Poem     What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes     Advertisments     What Happened     Jean Cocteau     A Movie     A Waterfall and Piano     Saint in Seven