Geography and Plays
Gertrude Stein
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Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being" and can be seen as literature's answer to Cubism, plasticity, and collage. Although the book has been described as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is considered to be one of Stein's seminal works. (summary by wildemoose and Wikipedia) (12 hr 35 min)
Chapters
| Susie Asado | 1:42 | Read by Arielle Lipshaw |
| Ada | 7:57 | Read by roeg11 |
| Miss Furr and Miss Skeene | 12:15 | Read by Cori Samuel |
| A Collection | 8:41 | Read by roeg11 |
| France | 30:21 | Read by Marmalade Hanna |
| Americans | 19:59 | Read by roeg11 |
| Italians | 39:02 | Read by Pamela Krantz |
| A Sweet Tail (Gypsies) | 12:45 | Read by roeg11 |
| The History of Belmonte | 11:54 | Read by roeg11 |
| In the Grass (On Spain) | 18:35 | Read by roeg11 |
| England | 36:58 | Read by roeg11 |
| Mallorcan Stories | 0:52 | Read by April Gonzales |
| Scenes, Actions and Dispositions of Relations and Positions | 1:02:38 | Read by Bev J Stevens |
| The King or Something (The Public is Invited to Dance) | 16:06 | Read by roeg11 |
| Publishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British Museum | 13:40 | Read by Pamela Krantz |
| Roche | 5:19 | Read by Pamela Krantz |
| Braque | 15:38 | Read by Bob Gonzalez |
| Portrait of Prince B.D. | 10:36 | Read by roeg11 |
| Mrs. Whitehead | 5:05 | Read by Bob Gonzalez |
| Portrait of Constance Fletcher | 25:26 | Read by roeg11 |
| A Poem About Walberg | 2:24 | Read by Bob Gonzalez |
| Johnny Grey | 8:47 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
| A Portrait of F.B. | 6:26 | Read by roeg11 |
| Sacred Emily | 10:43 | Read by Charlotte Duckett |
| IIIIIIIIII | 19:18 | Read by Bev J Stevens |
| One (Van Vechten) | 2:42 | Read by Charlotte Duckett |
| One. Harry Phelan Gibb | 1:25 | Read by Charlotte Duckett |
| A Curtain Raiser | 0:57 | Read by April Gonzales |
| Ladies' Voices (Curtain Raiser) | 2:41 | Read by Arielle Lipshaw |
| What Happened. A Play in Five Acts | 7:14 | Read by Arielle Lipshaw |
| White Wines. Three Acts | 10:25 | Read by Arielle Lipshaw |
| Do Let Us Go Away. A Play | 22:42 | Read by Bev J Stevens |
| For the Country Entirely. A Play in Letters | 16:40 | Read by Elizabeth Klett |
| Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It. A Play | 30:21 | Read by Jon Miller |
| Every Afternoon. A Dialogue | 7:16 | Read by Linette Geisel |
| Captain Walter Arnold. A Play | 2:15 | Read by April Gonzales |
| Please Do Not Suffer. A Play | 9:21 | Read by Libby Gohn |
| He Said It. Monologue | 15:14 | Read by Bellona Times |
| Counting Her Dresses. A Play | 8:12 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
| I Like It To Be a Play. A Play | 6:12 | Read by roeg11 |
| Not Sightly. A Play | 21:25 | Read by roeg11 |
| Bonne Annee. A Play | 2:30 | Read by roeg11 |
| Mexico. A Play | 37:44 | Read by roeg11 |
| A Family of Perhaps Three | 19:46 | Read by Bev J Stevens |
| Advertisements | 10:44 | Read by Pamela Krantz |
| Pink Melon Joy | 47:35 | Read by Bev J Stevens |
| If You Had Three Husbands | 28:11 | Read by Linette Geisel |
| Work Again | 9:35 | Read by Elizabeth Klett |
| Tourty or Tourtebattre. A Story of the Great War | 8:25 | Read by roeg11 |
| Next. (Life and Letters of Marcel Duchamp) | 2:55 | Read by Bellona Times |
| Land of Nations (Sub Title: And Ask Asia) | 3:36 | Read by Patti Cunningham |
| Accents in Alsace. A Reasonable Tragedy | 11:00 | Read by roeg11 |
| The Psychology of Nations or What Are You Looking At | 4:54 | Read by captdavestambaugh |