The cover page is adapted from The Artist’s Wife with a Fan, a painting completed in 1888 by Paul Cézanne. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zannewww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Three Lives
Chapters (6)
- Epigraph 0:00
- The Good Anna: I 0:08
- II: The Life of the Good Anna 24:29
- III: The Death of the Good Anna 2:05:54
- Melanctha 2:16:21
- The Gentle Lena 7:26:09
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In Three Lives are the stories of three working-class woman from Bridgepoint—a town loosely based on Baltimore—in the early twentieth century. Each story tells of the hopes, loves, romances and sadnesses of the women as they live their lives.
Written in a unconventional style, the lives of the three women are uncovered through their layered conversations and interactions more than through detailed depictions. The book is notable for its descriptions of homosexual romance, something that at the time in the USA wasn’t accepted (indeed, Gertrude Stein moved with her partner to Paris to be able to live openly).
Three Lives was Gertrude Stein’s first published book, and although the sales weren’t as expected it was generally well received by critics. It’s considered today to be among her more accessible books, and is a regular on English literature curricula.