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Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein
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Title: Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
Author: Gertrude Stein
Release Date: March 18, 2005 [EBook #15408]
Language: English
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Three Lives
Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
GERTRUDE STEIN
Donc je suis malheureux et ce n'est ni ma faute ni celle de la vie.[1]
Jules Laforgue
[Footnote 1: Therefore I am unhappy and it is neither my fault nor that of life.]
Contents
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The Good Anna 1 Melanctha 47 The Gentle Lena 142
THE GOOD ANNA
Part I
The tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned to dread the sound of "Miss
Mathilda", for with that name the good Anna always conquered.
The strictest of the one price stores found that they could give things for a little less, when the good Anna had fully said that "Miss Mathilda" could not pay so much and that she could buy it cheaper "by Lindh