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, &quot;The Good Anna,&quot; &quot;Melanctha,&quot; and &quot;The Gentle Lena.&quot;<br />The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore.<br /><br />Synopses<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;donc je suis un malheureux et ce n&rsquo;est ni ma faute ni celle de la vie&quot;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;therefore, I am unhappy and this is neither my fault nor that of my life&quot;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &mdash;?Jules Laforgue, quoted as epigraph to Three Lives<br /><br />Each of the three tales in Three Lives tells of a working-class woman living in Baltimore.<br />|Wikipedia|