Geography and Plays

Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

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)

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Susie Asado Arielle Lipshaw
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Play 02 Ada roeg11
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Play 03 Miss Furr and Miss Skeene Cori Samuel
00:12:15
Play 04 A Collection roeg11
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Play 05 France Marmalade Hanna
00:30:21
Play 06 Americans roeg11
00:19:59
Play 07 Italians Pamela Krantz
00:39:02
Play 08 A Sweet Tail (Gypsies) roeg11
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Play 09 The History of Belmonte roeg11
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Play 10 In the Grass (On Spain) roeg11
00:18:35
Play 11 England roeg11
00:36:58
Play 12 Mallorcan Stories April Gonzales
00:00:52
Play 13 Scenes, Actions and Dispositions of Relations and Positions Bev J Stevens
01:02:38
Play 14 The King or Something (The Public is Invited to Dance) roeg11
00:16:06
Play 15 Publishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British Museum Pamela Krantz
00:13:40
Play 16 Roche Pamela Krantz
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Play 17 Braque Bob Gonzalez
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Play 18 Portrait of Prince B.D. roeg11
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Play 19 Mrs. Whitehead Bob Gonzalez
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Play 20 Portrait of Constance Fletcher roeg11
00:25:26
Play 21 A Poem About Walberg Bob Gonzalez
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Play 22 Johnny Grey Chuck Williamson
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Play 23 A Portrait of F.B. roeg11
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Play 24 Sacred Emily Charlotte Duckett
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Play 25 IIIIIIIIII Bev J Stevens
00:19:18
Play 26 One (Van Vechten) Charlotte Duckett
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Play 27 One. Harry Phelan Gibb Charlotte Duckett
00:01:25
Play 28 A Curtain Raiser April Gonzales
00:00:57
Play 29 Ladies' Voices (Curtain Raiser) Arielle Lipshaw
00:02:41
Play 30 What Happened. A Play in Five Acts Arielle Lipshaw
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Play 31 White Wines. Three Acts Arielle Lipshaw
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Play 32 Do Let Us Go Away. A Play Bev J Stevens
00:22:42
Play 33 For the Country Entirely. A Play in Letters Elizabeth Klett
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Play 34 Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It. A Play Jon Miller
00:30:21
Play 35 Every Afternoon. A Dialogue Linette Geisel
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Play 36 Captain Walter Arnold. A Play April Gonzales
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Play 37 Please Do Not Suffer. A Play Libby Gohn
00:09:21
Play 38 He Said It. Monologue Bellona Times
00:15:14
Play 39 Counting Her Dresses. A Play Chuck Williamson
00:08:12
Play 40 I Like It To Be a Play. A Play roeg11
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Play 41 Not Sightly. A Play roeg11
00:21:25
Play 42 Bonne Annee. A Play roeg11
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Play 43 Mexico. A Play roeg11
00:37:44
Play 44 A Family of Perhaps Three Bev J Stevens
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Play 45 Advertisements Pamela Krantz
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Play 46 Pink Melon Joy Bev J Stevens
00:47:35
Play 47 If You Had Three Husbands Linette Geisel
00:28:11
Play 48 Work Again Elizabeth Klett
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Play 49 Tourty or Tourtebattre. A Story of the Great War roeg11
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Play 50 Next. (Life and Letters of Marcel Duchamp) Bellona Times
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Play 51 Land of Nations (Sub Title: And Ask Asia) Patti Cunningham
00:03:36
Play 52 Accents in Alsace. A Reasonable Tragedy roeg11
00:11:00
Play 53 The Psychology of Nations or What Are You Looking At captdavestambaugh
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