Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein Fiction Literary

<p><strong>Gertrude Stein is best known for the quote A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. </strong>She was an early 20th century writer whose work mirrored the experimentalism of the Cubist art movement.</p><p>A Long Gay Book (the novella that opens this volume -- a novella so substantial that it could well fill a volume by itself) is written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Stein helped to make famous.</p>