Tender Buttons
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Table of contents
- DOVER BOOKS ON LITERATURE AND DRAMA2
- Title Page3
- Copyright Page4
- NOTE5
- Table of Contents6
- OBJECTS7
- A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS.7
- GLAZED GLITTER.7
- A SUBSTANCE IN A CUSHION.7
- A BOX.7
- A PIECE OF COFFEE.7
- DIRT AND NOT COPPER.7
- NOTHING ELEGANT.8
- MILDRED’S UMBRELLA.8
- A METHOD OF A CLOAK.8
- A RED STAMP.8
- A BOX.8
- A PLATE.8
- A SELTZER BOTTLE.8
- A LONG DRESS.8
- A RED HAT.8
- A BLUE COAT.9
- A PIANO.9
- A CHAIR.9
- A FRIGHTFUL RELEASE.9
- A PURSE.9
- A MOUNTED UMBRELLA.9
- A CLOTH.9
- MORE.9
- A NEW CUP AND SAUCER.9
- OBJECTS.9
- EYE GLASSES.9
- CUTLET.9
- CARELESS WATER.9
- A PAPER.9
- A DRAWING.9
- WATER RAINING.9
- COLD CLIMATE.9
- MALACHITE.9
- AN UMBRELLA.9
- A PETTICOAT.9
- A WAIST.9
- A TIME TO EAT.10
- A LITTLE BIT OF A TUMBLER.10
- A FIRE.10
- A HANDKERCHIEF.10
- RED ROSES.10
- IN BETWEEN.10
- COLORED HATS.10
- A FEATHER.10
- A BROWN.10
- A LITTLE CALLED PAULINE.10
- A SOUND.10
- A TABLE.10
- SHOES.10
- A DOG.10
- A WHITE HUNTER.10
- A LEAVE.10
- SUPPOSE AN EYES.10
- A SHAWL.10
- BOOK.10
- PEELED PENCIL, CHOKE.11
- IT WAS BLACK, BLACK TOOK.11
- THIS IS THE DRESS, AIDER.11
- FOOD12
- ROASTBEEF.12
- MUTTON.13
- BREAKFAST.14
- SUGAR.15
- CRANBERRIES.15
- MILK.15
- MILK.15
- EGGS.15
- APPLE.15
- TAILS.15
- LUNCH.15
- CUPS.15
- RHUBARB.15
- SINGLE FISH.15
- CAKE.15
- CUSTARD.15
- POTATOES.16
- POTATOES.16
- ROAST POTATOES.16
- ASPARAGUS.16
- BUTTER.16
- END OF SUMMER.16
- SAUSAGES.16
- CELERY.16
- VEAL.16
- VEGETABLE.16
- WAY LAY VEGETABLE.16
- COOKING.16
- CHICKEN.16
- CHICKEN.16
- CHICKEN.16
- CHICKEN.16
- CHAIN-BOATS.16
- PASTRY.16
- CREAM.16
- CREAM.16
- CUCUMBER.16
- DINNER.16
- DINING.16
- EATING.16
- EATING.16
- SALAD.16
- SAUCE.16
- SALMON.16
- ORANGE.16
- ORANGE.17
- ORANGES.17
- ORANGE IN.17
- SALAD DRESSING AND AN ARTICHOKE.17
- SALAD DRESSING AND AN ARTICHOKE.17
- A CENTRE IN A TABLE.17
- ROOMS18
- A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS22
Mentor and guide to the Lost Generation of expatriate American writers, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) is perhaps better known for her Parisian salon than her literary works. Yet her innovative approach to writing and her originality of thought make the impact of her books on contemporary literature enormous. Tender Buttons, published in 1914, is vintage Stein. She pushes abstraction to its farthest limits by experimenting with words purely as words in a style more akin to painting than literature. Interested in their melody and color, Stein favors verbs and prepositions in unusual combinations and attempts to avoid using nouns. According to Sherwood Anderson, Tender Buttons "gives words an oddly new intimate flavor and at the same time makes familiar words seem almost like strangers … For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire new recasting of life, in the city of words." Often compared with music and Cubist imagery, the exhilarating prose and thought-provoking experimental techniques of Tender Buttons offer readers a rewarding sojourn through one of Stein's most influential works.