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Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Any attempt to separate Gertrude Stein’s novels from her other kinds of writing must be highly arbitrary. Stein thought the novel to be a failed literary form in the twentieth century, claiming that no real novels had been written after Marcel Proust, even including her own novelistic efforts in this assessment. For this and other reasons, it might be claimed that few, if any, of Stein’s works are novels in any traditional sense. In fact, very few of Stein’s more than six hundred titles in more than forty books can be adequately classified into any...

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• Gertrude Stein (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Gertrude Stein (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Gertrude Stein (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Gertrude Stein (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Gertrude Stein (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))

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• Making of Americans, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Making of Americans, The (Women’s Literature)
• Making of Americans, The (Character Profiles)
• Making of Americans, The (Literary Places)
• Three Lives (Masterplots Classics)
• Three Lives (Women’s Literature)
• Three Lives (Character Profiles)
• Three Lives (Identities and Issues)
• Three Lives (Literary Places)
• Gay and Lesbian Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)