The making of Americans in Paris; the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2008

The making of Americans in Paris; the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein.

Sloboda, Noel.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2008

195 pages

$67.95

Hardcover

American University studies; XXIV, American literature; v.77

PS3545

Sloboda (Pennsylvania State U.-York) seeks reasons for the success of autobiographies by the expatriate American authors Wharton (1862- 1937) and Stein (1874-1946), published respectively in 1934 and 1933. He finds similarities in their life stories that will surprise people who know only how their careers diverged--Wharton's novels and short stories extending the tradition of realism while Stein challenged that tradition and advocated alternative forms of expression.

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