Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

The world is round / Gertrude Stein ; pictures by Clement Hurd ; foreword by Thacher Hurd ; afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd.

by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

View full image

Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013, 1939.

Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.

Individuality -- Juvenile fiction.

Self -- Juvenile fiction.

9780062203076 (hc.)

75th anniversary ed.

xi, 110 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

Afterword, titled The world is not flat, originally published in 1986 by Arion Press, San Francisco.

"Chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose—a whimsical tale that delights in wordplay and sound while exploring the ideas of personal identity and individuality. This stunning volume replicates the original 1939 edition to a T, including all of Clement Hurd's original blue-and-white art printed on the rose-pink paper that Stein insisted upon. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book. The first, a foreword by Clement Hurd's son, author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, includes previously unpublished photographs and sheds light on a creative family life in Vermont, where his father and mother, author Edith Thacher Hurd, often collaborated on children's books. The second essay, an afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd, takes readers behind the scenes of the making of The World Is Round, including the numerous letters exchanged between Hurd and Stein as well as images of Stein with the real-life Rose and her white poodle, Love. Rose wonders who she is, asking herself if she would still be Rose if her name were not Rose, and goes on a journey in search of herself. "--From publisher.

Hurd, Clement, 1908-1988,

Hurd, Edith Thacher, 1910-1997. World is not flat.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal