Gertrude Stein 
Three Lives 

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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