Three Lives and Q.E.D.Three Lives is comprised of the stories "The Good Anna," "Melanchtha," and "The Gentle Lena." "Melanchtha" is an adaptation of Q. E. D., Stein's first completed novel, which remained unpublished until four years after her death. "Contexts" is divided into two sections "Biography" and "Intellectual Backgrounds" that highlight the inspirations for and evolutions of Three Lives and discuss the difficult reception Stein's experimental writing met with in