Geography and Plays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Geography and Plays, credited to Gertrude Stein, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Geography and Plays, by Gertrude Stein. Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being" and can be seen as literature's answer to Cubism, plasticity, and collage. Although the book has been described as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is considered to be one of Stein's seminal works. (summary by wildemoose and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Geography and Plays
• Author credits: Gertrude Stein
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 12:35:04

Catalogue topics

• gertrude stein
• geography and plays
• stream of consciousness
• collage
• cubism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 01 - Susie Asado — 1:42
2. 02 - Ada — 7:58
3. 03 - Miss Furr and Miss Skeene — 12:16
4. 04 - A Collection — 8:41
5. 05 - France — 30:21
6. 06 - Americans — 20:00
7. 07 - Italians — 39:02
8. 08 - A Sweet Tail (Gypsies) — 12:46
9. 09 - The History of Belmonte — 11:54
10. 10 - In the Grass (On Spain) — 18:36
11. 11 - England — 36:59
12. 12 - Mallorcan Stories — 0:53
13. 13 - Scenes, Actions and Dispositions of Relations and Positions — 1:02:38
14. 14 - The King or Something (The Public is Invited to Dance) — 16:07
15. 15 - Publishers, the Portrait Gallery, and the Manuscripts of the British Museum — 13:41
16. 16 - Roche — 5:19
17. 17 - Braque — 15:39
18. 18 - Portrait of Prince B.D. — 10:36
19. 19 - Mrs. Whitehead — 5:06
20. 20 - Portrait of Constance Fletcher — 25:26
21. 21 - A Poem About Walberg — 2:24
22. 22 - Johnny Grey — 8:47
23. 23 - A Portrait of F.B. — 6:27
24. 24 - Sacred Emily — 10:44

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