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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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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Everybody's autobiography
Picasso
Wars I have seen
Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein on Picasso
Autobiographie de tout le monde
Autobiografia Alicji B. Toklas
Ernest Hemingway and the post-war decade
Three lives
Gertrude Stein's America
The Other Persuasion
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
The letters of GertrudeStein and Thornton Wilder
Painted lace
Geography and plays
What are masterpieces
All the World's a Stage
Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings
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The Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein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)
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
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
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
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
Kari Hotakainen
Kari Hotakainen (born 1957)

poet, journalist, playwright

  • University of Helsinki

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Lieblingsszenen
Buster Keaton. Leben und Werke
Ihmisen osa
The human part
Klassikko
Ohne Hemd
La part de l'homme
En klassiker
Jumalan sana
HOT
Isakskatedralen
Buster Keaton
Finnhits
Punahukka
Sydänkohtauksia
Satukirja
Kuka pelkää mustaa miestä
Kuka kukin on
Ritva
Näytän hyvältä ilman paitaa
Bronks
Sydänkohtauksia, eli, Kuinka tehtiin Kummisetä
Rue de la Tranchée
Jumalan sana
Luonnon laki
Juoksuhaudantie
Iisakin kirkko
Huolimattomat
På hjemmefronten
Harmittavat takaiskut
Karl Goedeke
Karl Goedeke (1814-1887)

literary historian, bibliographer, biographer, poet

  • University of Göttingen

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Elf Bücher deutscher Dichtung
Deutsche Dichtung im Mittelalter
Schwänke des sechzehten jahrhunderts
Liederbuch aus dem sechzehnten jahrhundert
Grundrisz zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen
Schwänke des sechzehnten Jahrjunderts
Goethes Leben und Schriften
Every-man, Homulus und Hekastus
Emanuel Geibel
Goethes Leben und Schriften: 2. Durchges. Aufl
Grundriss Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Dichtung Aus Den Quellen
Goedekes Grundrisz zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung
Goethe und Schiller
Grundiss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung
Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung
Goethes Leben
Grundrisz zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen
Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung aus den Quellen. 3. Neu bearb
Goedekes Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung
Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung. Neue Folge
Emanuel Geibel
Gottfried August Bürger in Göttingen und Gelliehausen
Reinfrid von Braunschweig
Deutsche Dichtung im Mittelalter. 2. Ausg., verm. um buch XII
Adolph Freiherr Knigge
Goethes Leben und Schriften
Briefe und Schriften des jungen Karl Goedeke
Deutsche Dichter des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts
Teuerdank
Notker the Stammerer
Notker the Stammerer (0839-0912)

poet, composer, musicologist, historian

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Der Mönch von Sankt Gallen über die Thaten Karls des Grossen
Taten Kaiser Karls des Grossen
Notkeri poetae Balbuli Liber ymnorum
Die Geschichten von Karl dem Grossen
Taten Kaiser Karls des Grossen
Notkeri poetae - Balbuli - Liber ymnorum
Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679)

poet, playwright, translator, rhetorician

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Vondel's Lucifer
De helden Godes des Ouwden Verbonds
De helden godes des Ouwden Verbonds
Lust tot poëzie
J.v. Vondels Adam in ballingschap, of Aller treurspeelen treurspel
Vorsteliicke warande der dieren
Gebroeders
Vorstelijcke warande der dieren
J. v. Vondels Joannes de boetgezant
Volledige dichtwerken en oorspronkelijk proza
De vernieuwde gulden winckel der kunstliebende Nederlanders *
Alle de Werken
Adonias
Cinq tragédies
Gysbrecht van Aemstel, d'ondergang van syn stad en syn ballingschap
Gysbreght van Aemstel
J. v. Vondels Bespiegelingen von Godt en Godtsdienst
Mary Stuart, or, Tortured majesty
Hekeldichten
Luzifer
J.v. Vondels Noah, of Ondergang der eerste weerelt
Koning David =
De werken van J. van den Vondel
J.v. Vondels Zungchin; of, Ondergang der sineesche heerschappye
J. van Vondels Hekeldigten
Catalogue of writings by Joost van den Vondel
J. v. Vondels Hekeldichten
Gebroeders, 1648
Bloemlezing uit Vondels lyriek
Met Vondel van de Rode Zee naar de Chinese Muur
Toneelspelen
Lucifer
J. v. Vondels Gysbrecht van Aemstel
Vondel's meersterstuk Lucifer
De werken van Vondel
Leeuwendalers
De heerlijckheit der kercke
Vondel en Amsterdam
Al de dichtwerken
Aenleidinge ter Nederduitsche dichtkunste
J. v. Vondels Palamedes of Vermoorde onnozelheit
Gijsbreght van Aemstel
De druckkunst
Alle de treurspelen
Vijftig gedichten
Juweeltjes
Adam in ballingschap
J. van Vondels Hekeldigten
Den gulden winckel
De vernieuwde gulden winckel der kunstliebende Nederlanders
De druckkunst
J.V. Vondels Poëzy, of, Verscheide gedichten
Meesterstukken uit Vondel's werken
Toonneel des menschelikken levens
Koning Davids harpzangen
Twee zeevaart-gedichten
Toonneel des menschelyken levens, of, De vernieuwde gulden winkel
Joost van Vondel's Lucifer
Volledige dichtwerken en oorspronkelijk proza
Toonneel des menschelyken levens, of, De vernieuwde gulden winkel
Muss sehnend ich doch schaun nach Köln, der Vaterstadt, die mich geboren
Gysbrecht van Aemstel
Vondels lyriek
Vondel's lyriek
Een inleiding tot Vondel
Op het onset van Piet Heyns buyt, het VVest-Injes-Huys spreeckt
Den gulden winckel der konstlievende Nederlanders
Jeptha, of offerbelofte ; Koning David hersteld ; Faëton, of roekeloze stoutheid
Joseph in Dothan en Lucifer
Den Bosch bedwongen
Lucifer
Vondel
Blydschap, over de verlossing van Amsterdam
De werken van Vondel
Vondels Lucifer
Vorstelijcke warande der dieren
Vondel-brieven
J. v. Vondels Joannes de Boetgezant
Verscheyde nederduytsche gedichten
Verscheiden Gedichten
Olof Lagercrantz
Olof Lagercrantz (1911-2002)

literary critic, poet, editing staff

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August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Strindberg
Jag bor i en annan värld, men du bor ju i samma
Min första krets
Ekelöf, Proust och Conrad
Vårt sekel är reserverat åt lögnen
Om konsten att läsa och skriva
Stig Dagerman
Ett år på sextiotalet
Dante und die Göttliche Komödie
Versuch uber die Lyrik der Nelly Sachs
Epic of the Afterlife
Vom Leben auf der anderen Seite. Ein Buch über Emanuel Swedenborg
Stig Dagerman
Scrivere como Dio
Från Aeneas till Ahlin
Färd med Mörkrets hjärta
From hell to paradise
Dagbok
Opinionslägen
Enhörningen
Från helvetet till paradiset
Den pågående skapelsen
En blödande ros
Trudi
Att finnas till
Agnes von Krusenstjerna
Eftertanker om Strindberg
Att läsa Proust
At vœre til
Versuch über die Lyrik der Nelly Sachs
Von der Hölle zum Paradies
China-report
Dikter, 1935-1962
Vaar tids poesi
Hård höst
Svenska lyriker
Tröst för min älskling
Stora kärleksmyter
Dikten om livet på den andra sidan
Tretton lyriker och Fågeltruppen
Från helvetet till paradiset
Om James Joyces Odysseus
Vid sidan av
From hell to paradise
Peter Hansen
Peter Hansen (1840-1905)

journalist, literary critic, poet

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Den danske skueplads
Illustreret dansk litteraturhistorie
Nordiske digtere i vort aarhundrede: en skandinavisk anthologi, med biographien og portraiter af ..
Illustreret dansk litteratur historie
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Kepa Enbeita
Kepa Enbeita (1878-1942)

bertsolari, poet

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Enbeita oleskaria (1878-1942)