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Tender Buttons

by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the memory clear, this which was a speech showed the chair in the middle where there was copper.

A kind of green a game in green and nothing flat nothing quite flat and more round, nothing a particular color strangely, nothing breaking the losing of no little piece.

The teasing is tender and trying and thoughtful.

Extracts from Tender Buttons.

CD booklet
Album Art

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia – Gertrude Stein
• Wikipedia – Tender Buttons
• LibriVox’s Tender Buttons Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book – 53.1MB
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Total running time: 1:50:28
Read by Cori Samuel

Listen to part one:  

mp3 and ogg files

• 1 – Objects – 00:34:05
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  [mp3@128kbps - 32.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.8MB]
• 2 – Food – 00:47:38
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  [mp3@128kbps - 45.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 18.1MB]
• 3 – Rooms – 00:28:45
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  [mp3@128kbps - 27.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 11.6MB]

Cataloged on October 06, 2007