Geography and PlaysGertrude Stein
Geography and Plays
by OpenStories
Original author: Gertrude Stein
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"Geography and Plays" by Gertrude Stein is a collection published in 1922. This experimental work contains the poem "Sacred Emily," famous for originating the line "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." Stein's enigmatic sentence explores how language invokes imagery and emotion, expressing what she saw as poetry's power to restore direct meaning to words. The phrase became one of literature's most quoted lines, endlessly interpreted, parodied, and debated by writers from Hemingway to Huxley.
Geography and Plays, by Gertrude Stein. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #33403.
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33 Chapters
- 1.Front Matter (1)8,699 words
- 2.Front Matter (2)8,738 words
- 3.Front Matter (3)8,744 words
- 4.Front Matter (4)8,826 words
- 5.Front Matter (5)8,499 words
- 6.Front Matter (6)8,085 words
- 7.Front Matter (7)1,558 words
- 8.Act ONE: (One.)372 words
- 9.Act TWO: (Three.)163 words
- 10.Act THREE: (Two.)218 words
- 11.Act FOUR: (Four and four more.)274 words
- 12.Act FIVE: (Two.)4,368 words
- 13.Chapter 2: Dear Sir. A play194 words
- 14.Chapter 3: Why do you play in letters2,772 words
- 15.Act II2,283 words
- 16.Act II: A dazzling dress. We dazzle altogether3,264 words
- 17.Act VI: If you wish2,954 words
- 18.Act II206 words
- 19.Act III388 words
- 20.Act IV: First second third and fourth bird492 words
- 21.Act V: Scene IX145 words
- 22.Part II: Loud voices heard by me329 words
- 23.Act II: Tall boys are fourteen553 words
- 24.Act III: Don't please me with Mexico310 words
- 25.Act IV: Do please me460 words
- 26.Act V: The act of coming is pitiful304 words
- 27.Act VI: Scene I (1)8,390 words
- 28.Act VI: Scene I (2)7,850 words
- 29.Act I: The Schemils500 words
- 30.Act 54: In silver stars and red crosses170 words
- 31.Act 425571 words
- 32.Part II: Readings in missions231 words
- 33.Epilogue: Veils and veils and lying down448 words