# The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

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- Authors: [Gertrude Stein](https://www.bookquiver.com/gertrude-stein)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-536-1
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2001-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and ‘it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning’. Picasso was there with ‘his high whinnying spanish giggle’, as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it – ‘The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me’. A light-hearted entertainment, this is in fact Gertrude Stein’s own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by the American in Paris.