Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife dup-review-publication in the end

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The book features fifty-five plant profiles ranging from the everyday to the utterly unique

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and learn of the mythological cosmos they inhabit

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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife dup-review-publication in the end'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding and contested writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth. We see her posing for Picasso's portrait; at the centre of Bohemian Parisian life hosting the likes of Matisse and