The tale begins by focusing on the idea of children being born with a clean slate, but it evolves into something else entirely.

Stein’s innovative writing emphasizes the sounds and rhythms rather than the sense of words. By departing from conventional meaning, grammar and syntax, she attempted to capture moments of consciousness, independent…

Reprint of the 1914 edition (cited in BCL3 ) with a new note on the text. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Gertrude Stein was at heart an artist’s writer. She became well-known to the literary mainstream with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and was at her most accessible with her…