Gertrude Stein 
Three Lives [EPUB ebook] 

Three Lives (1909) is a work of fiction written in 1905 and 1906 by American writer Gertrude Stein. The book is separated into three stories, ‘The Good Anna, ‘ ‘Melanctha, ‘ and ‘The Gentle Lena.’
The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore.
Synopses
    ‘donc je suis un malheureux et ce n’est ni ma faute ni celle de la vie’
    ‘therefore, I am unhappy and this is neither my fault nor that of my life’
    —?Jules Laforgue, quoted as epigraph to Three Lives
Each of the three tales in Three Lives tells of a working-class woman living in Baltimore.
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