Geography and Plays
Gertrude Stein
53 chapters · 12 h 35 min · English
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Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being" and can be seen as literature's answer to Cubism, plasticity, and collage. Although the book has been described as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is considered to be one of Stein's seminal works. (summary by wildemoose and Wikipedia)
Chapters
1 Susie Asado 2 min 2 Ada 8 min 3 Miss Furr and Miss Skeene 12 min 4 A Collection 9 min 5 France 30 min 6 Americans 20 min 7 Italians 39 min 8 A Sweet Tail (Gypsies) 13 min 9 The History of Belmonte 12 min 10 In the Grass (On Spain) 19 min 11 England 37 min 12 Mallorcan Stories 1 min 13 Scenes, Actions and Dispositions of Relations and Positions 1 h 3 min 14 The King or Something (The Public is Invited to Dance) 16 min 15 Publishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British Museum 14 min 16 Roche 5 min 17 Braque 16 min 18 Portrait of Prince B.D 11 min 19 Mrs. Whitehead 5 min 20 Portrait of Constance Fletcher 25 min 21 A Poem About Walberg 2 min 22 Johnny Grey 9 min 23 A Portrait of F.B 6 min 24 Sacred Emily 11 min 25 IIIIIIIIII 19 min 26 One (Van Vechten) 3 min 27 One. Harry Phelan Gibb 1 min 28 A Curtain Raiser 1 min 29 Ladies' Voices (Curtain Raiser) 3 min 30 What Happened. A Play in Five Acts 7 min 31 White Wines. Three Acts 10 min 32 Do Let Us Go Away. A Play 23 min 33 For the Country Entirely. A Play in Letters 17 min 34 Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It. A Play 30 min 35 Every Afternoon. A Dialogue 7 min 36 Captain Walter Arnold. A Play 2 min 37 Please Do Not Suffer. A Play 9 min 38 He Said It. Monologue 15 min 39 Counting Her Dresses. A Play 8 min 40 I Like It To Be a Play. A Play 6 min 41 Not Sightly. A Play 21 min 42 Bonne Annee. A Play 2 min 43 Mexico. A Play 38 min 44 A Family of Perhaps Three 20 min 45 Advertisements 11 min 46 Pink Melon Joy 48 min 47 If You Had Three Husbands 28 min 48 Work Again 10 min 49 Tourty or Tourtebattre. A Story of the Great War 8 min 50 Next. (Life and Letters of Marcel Duchamp) 3 min 51 Land of Nations (Sub Title: And Ask Asia) 4 min 52 Accents in Alsace. A Reasonable Tragedy 11 min 53 The Psychology of Nations or What Are You Looking At 5 min
