Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 1990

Copyright, 1945, 1946, © 1962, by Random House Inc Copyright, 1933, 1934, by Gertrude Stein. Copyright, 1934, 1935, by Modern Library, Inc. Copyright, 1940, by Atlantic Monthly, Inc. Copyright, 1945, by Random House, Inc. Copyright renewed, 1936, by Gertrude Stein. Copyright renewed, 1945, by Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed, 1960, 1961, 1962, by Alice B Toklas. Copyright renewed, 1967, by Daniel C. Joseph. Copyright renewed, 1974, by Joseph Solomon, Daniel Stein, Gabrielle Stein Tyler and Michael Stein.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto Originally published, in different form, by Random House, Inc in 1946. This edition was originally published by The Modern Library in 1962.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stein, Gertrude, 1874–1946.

[Selections. 1990]

Selected writings of Gertrude Stem / edited, with an introduction and notes, by Carl van Vechten and with an essay on Gertrude Stein by F. W. Dupee. — Vintage Books ed.

p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: Selected writings. New York.

Modern Library, c1962

eISBN: 978-0-307-82985-6

I. Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. II. Title.

PS3537.T323A6 1990

818’ 5209—dc20 89-22658

The editor and publishers acknowledge their indebtedness to the Hogarth Press for Composition as Explanation and Preciosilla, to Vanity Fair for Have They Attacked Mary. He Giggled. (A Political Caricature), to The Atlantic Monthly for The Winner Loses

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         CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

A Message from Gertrude Stein

General Introduction by F. W. Dupee

A Stein Song by Carl Van Vechten

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Gradual Making of The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans (Selected Passages)

Three Portraits of Painters:

CEZANNE

MATISSE

PICASSO

Melanctha: EACH ONE AS SHE MAY

Tender Buttons

Composition as Explanation

Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia

Have They Attacked Mary. He Giggled (A POLITICAL CARICATURE)

As a Wife Has a Cow: A LOVE STORY

Two Poems:

SUSIE ASADO

PRECIOSILLA

Two Plays:

LADIES’ VOICES

WHAT HAPPENED

Miss Furr and Miss Skeene

A Sweet Tail (Gypsies)

Four Saints in Three Acts

The Winner Loses: A PICTURE OF OCCUPIED FRANCE

The Coming of the Americans (from WARS I HAVE SEEN)

Epilogue

About the Author

A Message from Gertrude Stein

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it, and Carl was one of the earliest ones that made me be certain that I was going to be. When I was around fourteen I used to love to say to myself those awful lines of George Eliot, May I be one of those immortal something or other, I havent the poem here and although I knew then how it went I do not now, and then later when they used to ask me when I was going back to America, not until I am a lion, I said, I was not completely certain that I was going to be but now here I am, thank you all. How terribly exciting each one of these were, first there was the doing of them, the intense feeling that they made sense, then the doubt and then each time over again the intense feeling that they did make sense.