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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

poet, art collector, salonnière, autobiographer, librettist, playwright, collector

  • Radcliffe College, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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Three lives
Gertrude Stein's America
The Other Persuasion
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Everybody's autobiography
Picasso
Look at Me Now and Here I Am
Women Who Wrote
The World is Round
A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein
Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with two shorter stories
Stanzas in meditation
Nine Short Novels by American Women
A novel of thank you
Narration
The making of Americans
Lucy Church, amiably
Lectures in America
Ida
Tender Buttons
Wars I have seen
The letters of GertrudeStein and Thornton Wilder
Gertrude Stein
Painted lace
Geography and plays
What are masterpieces
All the World's a Stage
Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
A book concluding with As a wife has a cow
Loving, Repeating
Blood on the dining-room floor
The letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
Writings and lectures, 1911-1945
Paris France
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
"Three Lives" and "Tender Buttons"
Dear Sammy
How writing is written
To do
A Stein reader
Four in America
Bee time vine
The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein
Ida, a novel
Brewsie and Willie
How to write
Reflections on the atomic bomb
Novel of Thank You (American Literature Series)
Lifting Belly
Great American Poets
Last operas and plays
Baby precious always shines
Selected Notes on Money (Belles Lettres)
The geographical history of America
Look At Me Now and Here I Am Writings and Le
Useful knowledge
Ida
Selected operas & plays of Gertrude Stein
The geographical history of America, or, The relation of human nature to the human mind
The Yale Gertrude Stein
A History Of Having A Great Many Times Not Continued To Be Friends The Correspondence Between Mabel Dodge And Gertrude Stein 19141934
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
The Gertrude Stein reader
History or Messages from History (Green Integer Books Series , No 1)
Gertrude Stein on Picasso
Tender Buttons
Erzählen. Vier Vorträge
Ida
The previously uncollected writings of Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein Reads
Spinnwebzeit. Bee Time Vine und andere Gedichte
Mexico
Great American Short Novels
A book concluding with As a wife has a cow, a love story
The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
To Do
Three Lives
Paris France (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
Selected operas & plays of Gertrude Stein
Selected writings
Die geographische Geschichte von Amerika
In Savoy =
Gertrude Stein für Minuten. Ein Lesebuch
Mrs. Reynolds and five earlier novelettes
From The making of Americans
Paris. Frankreich Persönliche Erinnerungen
Correspondence
Lectures in America
Paris, France
Selected operas & plays of Gertrude Stein
Dix Portraits
Paris France
Alphabets and birthdays
Ada
The world is round
As fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930
Two
Üç Yaşam
Bell Is a Cup by Matt Connors
Autobiographie von Alice B. Toklas
Stanzas in Meditation
Correspondance
Geography and Plays
Selected writings of Gertrude Stein
Autobiographie de tout le monde
Aprender a escribir
Wars I Have Seen
Two: Gertrude Stein and her brother
Das große Lesebuch
The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded
Paris France
Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with two shorter stories
Gertrude Stein's Early Geographies
Three Lives And Tender Buttons
Picasso
Q. E. D
The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Fernhurst, Q.E.D.and Other Early Stories (Lesbian Landmarks)
The first reader & three plays
Making of Americans : Being a History of a Family's Progress
Little Called Pauline
Four in America
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor
Trois vies
Everybody's Autobiography
Geography and Plays
Üc Hayat
Gertrude Stein
Jedermanns Autobiographie
Geographical History of America
Autobiographie d'Alice Toklas
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Alice B. Toklas'in Özyasamöyküsü
Hassas Dügmeler
Ida
Stanzas in meditation
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Les guerres que j'ai vues
The Crack Up
Geography and Plays
Picasso
Composition as explanation
Tendres boutons
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
Tender Buttons
Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
How to Write
Food
Portraits and prayers
Drei Leben. Erzählungen. ( Sammlung Luchterhand im DTV)
World Is Round
Reflection on the atomic bomb
Tender Buttons - Objects
Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
Retratos
Three Lives - The Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson
In Savoy or Yes Is for a Very Young Man
Morceaux choisis de La fabrication des américains
Four saints in three acts
White wines
An historic drama in memory of Winnie Elliot
Five short war poems
Chicago inscriptions
On our way
Alphabets and Birthdays (The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein, v. 7)
Bonne annee
Picasso
A manoir
Third historic drama
Everybody's autobiography
Lectures in America
An exercise in analysis
A village, are you ready yet not yet?
Mexico
Louis XI and Madame Giraud
Things as they are
Will he come back better. second historic drama. in the country
One
Photograph
A whole
At present
A list
Autobiographies
I like it to be a play
The first reader
A collection
A curtain raiser
A lyrical opera made by two
For the country entirely
IIIIIIIIII
Absolutely Bob Brown, or, Bobbed Brown
Il mondo è rotondo
Am I to go or I'll say so
Counting her dresses
An elucidation
Mexico
Three sisters who are not sisters
Film. Portrait de Georges Hugnet
A play called not and now
What happened
Do let us go away
Autobiografia Alicji B. Toklas
Turkey and bones and eating and we liked it
A parlor
Guerras Que He Visto
Ada
Selected writings of Gertrude Stein
Old and old
Kisses can
Louis XI and Madame Giraud
Yes is for a very young man
ha-Oṭobiyografyah shel Alis B. Ṭoḳlas
Gertrude Stein Reads from Her Poetry (V 1050)
An historic drama in memory of Winnie Elliot
Turkey and bones and eating and we liked it
He said it
Short sentences
Listen to me
Play I [-III]
Reread another
Gertrude Stein reads from her works
Every afternoon
A village, are you ready yet not yet
Reread another
Capital capitals
Three sisters who are not sisters
Yes is for a very young man
Why are there whites to console
Dix portraits
Erzählen
Look and long
Play I [-III]
Autobiografia lui Alice B. Toklas
Ladies' voices
Pasieu
A play of pounds
Lucretia Borgia
Lynn and the college de France
Portraits and prayers
Ladies' voices
Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems (The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein, v. 6)
Brewsie et Willie
Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933
A circular play
Do let us go away
Autobiografia Alicji B. Toklas
Lily
Pīkāso
L' autobiografia di Alice Toklas
A curtain raiser
Say it with flowers
Four saints in three acts
The five Georges
The king or something
The flowers of friendship
The five Georges
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the villa Curonia
Have they attacked Mary. He giggled
A play called not and now
The mother of us all
Ernest Hemingway and the post-war decade
Saints and singing
A parlor
Selected writings of Gertrude Stein
One
Not slightly
Petits poèmes pour un livre de lecture
Motor automatism
La brave Anna
Doctor faustus lights the lights
They must. be wedded. to their wife
Descriptions of literature
In a garden
Look and long
Please do not suffer
Ida
Autobiographie d'Alice Toklas
Lectures in America
For the country entirely
Fania Marinoff & Carl Van Vechten offer you warm holiday greetings with Two (hitherto unpublished) poems by Gertrude Stein
In Savoy, or, "Yes" is for yes for a very young man
Will he come back better. second historic drama. in the country
A circular play
A collection
Madame Recamier
Novel of Thank You (The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein)
Old and old
In a garden
Jie fang shi rong yao de
They weighed weighed-layed
Bonne annee
Zarte Knöpfe. Tender Buttons
White wines
Picasso (Biblioteca La Esfera)
Dix portraits
IIIIIIIIII
The geographical history of America, or, The relation of human nature to the human mind
A play of pounds
Doḳṭor Faʼusṭ madliḳ et ha-orot
Two: Gertrude Stein and her brother
Very well I thank you
Saints and singing
Short sentences
Not slightly
Narration
Selected writings
Madame Recamier
Byron
A bouquet. their wills
The king or something
The world is round
Picasso
Literally true
Please do not suffer
Objects lie on a table
A movie
A lyrical opera made by two
Lucretia borgia
Picasso
What happened
Literary cubism
A movie
Autobiografia di Alice Toklas
Kriege die ich gesehen habe
As fine as Melanctha (1914 to 1930)eby Gertrude Stein
Pasieu
Painted lace and other pieces (1914-1937)
Wars I have seen
America and Alfred Stieglitz
Two (hitherto unpublished) poems
An exercise in analysis
Autobiografia De Todo El Mundo
L' histoire géographique de l'Amérique
Guerras Que He Visto (Ensayo-Cro)
Byron
Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings
Last operas and plays
Civilization
Composition comme explication
Why are there whites to console, a portrait of Janet
Capital capitals
Captain Walter Arnold
Brewsie and Willie
An acquaintance with description
Tina Fey
Tina Fey (born 1970)

television actor, film actor, film producer, voice actor, director, comedian, actor, improviser, librettist, autobiographer, showrunner, television producer

  • University of Virginia, The Second City

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Bossypants
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
30 Rock
Sisters (Unrated)
Roderich Benedix
Roderich Benedix (1811-1873)

librettist, actor, stage actor

  • Thomasschule zu Leipzig

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Doctor Wespe
Der prozess
Die Shakespearomanie: Zur Abwehr
Dritte
Die hochzeitsreise
Der dritte
The woman hater
Die Hochzeitsreise
Who told the lie?
Nein
Plautus und Terenz
The law-suit
The wedding trip
Auseinander
Gesammelte dramatische Werke
Die hochzeitsreise von J. R. Benedix
Bilder aus dem schauspielerleben
Die Shakespearomanie
The obstinate family
The three bachelors
Auswahl deutscher Gedichte zum Vortrage geeignet: Mit einer Einleitung über ..
The obstinate family
Der mündliche Vortrag
Gesammelte dramatische Werke
Das Wesen des deutschen Rhythmus: Beitrag zur deutschen Verslehre
Des Herrn Magisters Merks seltsame Ansichten über Literarische Zustände
Katechismus der Redekunst
The third man
Die Hochzeitsreise: Lustspiel in zwei Aufzügen
Eigensinn
Volkstheater
Doktor Wespe
Der Störenfried
Doktor Wespe
"The table is set!" A comedy in one act
Ein Lustspiel
The law-suit
Jean Paul
Jean Paul (1763-1825)

poet, librettist

  • Leipzig University

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Levana
Blumen-, Frucht- und Dornenstücke oder Ehestand, Tod und Hochzeit des Armenadvokaten F. St. Siebenkäs im Reichsmarktflecken Kuhschnappel
Jean Paul
Flegeljahre
Werke
Horn of Oberon: Jean Paul Richter's School for aesthetics
Jean Pauls sämtliche Werke
Jean Pauls Werke
Vorschule der Ästhetik
Chronik
Jean Paul als Prophet für unsere Zeit
The Invisible lodge
Herbst-blumine: Oder gesammelte Werkchen aus Zeitschriften
Jean Paul Lebenserschreibung
Vorschule der Aesthetik, nebst einigen Vorlesungen in Leipzig über die ..
Blumen- Frucht- und Dornenstükke; oder, ehestandt: Tod und Hochzeit des Armenadvokaten f. St ..
Dr. Katzenbergers Badereise
Jean Paul's Werke
Flower, fruit, and thorn pieces; or
Briefe
Der Komet, oder, Nikolaus Marggraf: Eine komische Geschichte
Dämmerungen für Deutschland
Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wuz in Auenthal
Army-Chaplain Schmelzle's journey to Flaetz ; and, Life of Quintus Fixlein
Die unsichtbare Loge
Sketches of and from Jean Paul Richter
Selberlebensbeschreibung ; Konjektural-Biographie
Hesperus; oder, 45 Hundsposttage: Eine Biographie
Selections from the works of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul's Werke
Jean Paul's Werke
Spatial Econometrics From Crosssectional Data To Spatial Panels
Jean Pauls Werke
Flower, fruit and thorn pieces
Poétique, ou, Introduction à l'esthétique
Titan
Jean Paul's Werke
Briefe
The Campaner thal
Le Créancier
Werke in vier Bänder
Vorschule der Aesthetik
Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz, mit fortgehenden Noten
Jean Pauls Exzerpte
Werk, Leben, Wirkung
Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wuz in Auenthal
Choix de rêves
Werke in drei Bänden
Jean Paul
Poétique, ou, Introduction à l'esthétique
Jean Paul, ein Lebensroman in Briefen
Jean Paul's sämmtliche Werke
"Bier, Bier, Bier, wie es auch komme"
Il comico, l'umorismo e l'arguzia
Werke
Horn of Oberon
Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wutz in Auenthal
Jean Pauls Briefe und bevorstehender Lebenslauf
Politische Nachklänge
Sämtliche Werke
Wahrheit aus Jean Paul's Leben
Friedenspredigt an Deutschland
Hesperus
Hesperus
Choix de rêves [par] Jean-Paul
Flower, fruit and thorn pieces
Waltz and Vult
Jean Pauls Werke
Vorschule der Aesthetik
Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch
Jean Pauls werke
Der ewige Frühling
Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch
Politische Fastenpredigten während Deutschlands Marterwoche
Siebenka s
Jean Pauls Werke
Life of Jean Paul F. Richter
Voyage du proviseur Fälbel
Levana oder Erziehlehre von Jean Paul
Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wuz in Auenthal
Levana
Eine Auswahl aus seinen Werken
Jean Pauls werke in Zwei bänden
Geschichten
Dr Katzenbergens Badreise
Jean Pauls Werke
Dichtungen
Leben des Quintus Fixlein
The Campaner Thal
Ausgewählte Werke
Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz
Siebenkäs
Ehestand, Tod und Hochzeit des Armenadvocaten F. St. Siebenkäs im Reichsmarktflecken Kuhschnappel
Jean Paul und Frau von Krüdener im Spiegel ihres Briefwechsels [von] Dorothea Berger
Jean Paul's Schulmeisterlein Wutz
Vermischte Schriften 2
Entlarvung der Weiber durch Jean Paul
Jean Paul's werke
Jean Paul und Frau von Krüdener im Spiegel ihres Briefwechsels
Jean Paul's Sämmtliche Werke
Jean Paul und Herder
Palingenesien
Dr. Katzenberger's Bad-Reise
Leben des vergnüngten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wuz in Auenthal
Jean Paul: Werk, Leben, Wirkung
Hesperus, or, Forty-five dog-post-days
Begegnungen mit Zeitgenossen
Titan
Das Kampaner Thal, oder, Über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele
Des Feldpredigers schmelzle Reise nach Fla tz
Die wunderbare Gesellschaft in der Neujahrsnacht
Ueber das Immergrun unserer Gefühle, und andere kleinere Dichtungen
Der handschriftliche Nachlass Jean Pauls und die Jean-Paul-Bestände der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Quintus Fixlein
Ausgearbeitete Schriften
Poâetique, ou, Introduction áa l'esthâetique
Jean Pauls Briefwechsel mit seinem Freunde Christian Otto
DAS HELLE BEWUSSTSEIN DES ICH
Levana; or, The doctrine of education
Leben des Quintus Fixlein
Tales
Jean Paul, sein Leben von ihm selbst beschrieben
Sämmtliche Werke
Wit, wisdom, and philosophy
Jean Pauls (i.e. J. P. F. Richters) Werke in vier Bänden
Jean Paul-worte
Das Kampaner Thal, oder, über die Unsterblichkeit der Steele
Flower, fruit and thorn pieces; or the married life, death, and wedding of advocate of the poor, Firmian Stanislaus Siebenka s
Rede des toten Christus vom Weltgebäude herab, dass kein Gott sei
Sermons de Carême
Flower, fruit and thorn pieces
Walt and Vult, or, The twins
Jean Pauls ausgewählte Werke
Werke in vier bänden
Wahrheit aus Jean Paul's Leben
Des Rektors Florian Fälbel's und seiner Primaner Reise nach dem Fichtelberg
Das Idyll von Kuhschnappel
Dr. Katzenbergers Badereise
Jean Pauls Geist
Werke [von] Jean Paul [pseud.]
Dr. Katzenbergers Badereise
Vie de Fixlein, régent de cinquième
Biographie conjecturale =
Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz, mit fortgehenden Noten
Leben des Quintus Fixlein, aus 15 Zettelkästen gezogen
Satirische Jugendwerke
Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz
Selina
Ein Stundenbuch fuer seine Verehrer
Prigotovitelʹnai͡a shkola ėstetiki
The Campaner thal, and other writings
Jean Paul's Werke
Hesperus, oder, fu nfundvierzig Hundsposttage
Kritik des philosophischen Egoismus
La edad del pavo
Jean Paul als grossmeister deutschen humors
Schulmeisterlein Wutz
Le voyage aux bains du docteur Katzenberger
Samtliche Werke: historische-kritische Ausgabe
Jean Pauls ausgewählte Werke
Le créancier
His life
Levana and autobiography
BRIEFE ÜBER DEN TALMUD
Das helle Bewusstsein des Ich
Ein Taschenbuch für Deutsche
Eine Auswahl aus dem Werk des Dichters Jean Paul [pseud.] von Christian Jenssen
Sämmtliche Werke
Vie de Fibel
Ausgewählte Werke
Jean Pauls sämtliche Werke
Friedens Predigten
Leben Fibels, des Verfassers der Bienrodischen Fibel
Der Jubelsenior
Jean Paul Vorschule der ästhetik, nebst einigen Vorlesungen in Leipzig über die Parteien der Zeit
Jean Paul's Blätter der verehrung
Choix de rêves
Jean Pauls werke in Zwei bänden
Selberlebensbeschreibung
Titan
Jean Paul; eine Auswahl aus seinem Werk
Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wuz und andere Erzählungen
Träume und Visionen
Der ewige Frühling
Jean Paul's Briefwechsel mit seiner Frau and Christian Otto
Die Briefe Jean Pauls
Werke
Giovanni Ruffini
Giovanni Ruffini (1807-1881)

poet, librettist, diplomat, politician

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Doctor Antonio
Amheida I
Lorenzo Benoni
Il dottor Antonio: Nuova traduzione dall' inglese di Marina Carcano
Il dottor Antonio
Lavinia
Vincenzo; or, Sunken Rocks
Il Dottor Antonio
Lorenzo Benoni
Dear experience
I Paragreens a Parigi
Costruire chiese
Vincenzo
Lavinia V1
The Paragreens on a visit to the Paris Universal Exhibition
Lorenzo Benoni
The Paragreens on a visit to the Paris universal exhibition
Lorenzo Benoni
Doctor Antonio
A quiet nook in the Jura, by the author of 'Doctor Antonio'
I Paragreen a Parigi
The Paragreens on a visit to the Paris universal exhibition
The Paragreens, or A visit to the Paris universal exhibition. By the author of 'Lorenzo Benoni'
I Paragreens a Parigi
I fratelli Ruffini, lettere di Giovanni e Agostino Ruffini alla madre dall'esilio francese e svizzero
Doctor Antonio, by the author of Lorenzo Benoni
Doug Wright
Doug Wright (born 1962)

playwright, librettist

  • Yale University, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

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Joseph Stein
Joseph Stein (1912-2010)

librettist

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Quiara Alegría Hudes
Quiara Alegría Hudes (born 1977)

librettist

  • Yale University, Brown University

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