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A long war like this makes you realise the society you really prefer, the home, goats chickens and dogs and casual acquaintances. I find myself not caring at all for gardens flowers or vegetables cats cows and rabbits, one gets tired of trees vines and hills, but houses, goats chickens dogs and casual acquaintances never pall. - Gertrude Stein Attribution: Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945). Written in France in 1944, during World War II.

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Gertrude Stein

Titles by Gertrude Stein:

• Melanctha
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Salem on History:

• Gertrude Stein

Critical Companions:

• Stein, Gertrude (Feminism)

eNotes:

• Remarks as Literature: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas)
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• Gertrude Stein (Melanctha)
• Portrait of Gertrude Stein 1906 by Pablo Picasso. (Melanctha)

Encyclopedia:

• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Dictionary of Art)
• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Stein, Gertrude (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)

Salem on Literature:

• 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))

Literary Criticism:

• Stein, Gertrude (Drama Criticism)
• Stein, Gertrude (Poetry Criticism)
• Stein, Gertrude (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Gertrude Stein is born
• Gertrude Stein publishes Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha, and the Gentle Lena
• Gertrude Stein dies