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Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena

Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena

by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

BookID: 15408

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 84.9 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Working class women -- Fiction

Description

"Three Lives" by Gertrude Stein is a work of fiction written in 1905-1906. The book presents three independent stories about working-class women in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore. "The Good Anna" follows a strong-willed German servant managing households and relationships. "Melanctha" traces a young mixed-race woman's quest for knowledge and meaning through love and loss. "The Gentle Lena" completes the trio. Through straightforward, repetitive prose, Stein explores themes of power, friendship, female bonding, and struggles for self-fulfillment in early twentieth-century America. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

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