Hemingway's Essential Reads

Hemingway with his Cats

 

A few days ago we posted F. Scott Fitzgerald's list of essential reads, now it's time to see Hemingway's suggested reading list as reported by Open Culture:

 I would rather read again for the first time Anna Karenina, Far Away and Long Ago, Buddenbrooks, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, War and Peace, A Sportsman’s Sketches, The Brothers Karamazov, Hail and Farewell, Huckleberry Finn, Winesburg, Ohio, La Reine Margot, La Maison Tellier, Le Rouge et le Noire, La Chartreuse de Parme, Dubliners, Yeat’s Autobiographies and a few others than have an assured income of a million dollars a year.-Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's Essential Reads: 

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (eBook—Audio Book)
2. Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson (eBook—Audio Book)
3. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (eBook)
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (eBook—Audio Book)
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (eBook—Audio Book)
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (eBook—Audio Book)
7. A Sportsman’s Sketches by Ivan Turgenev (eBook)
8. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (eBook—Audio Book)
9. Hail and Farewell by George Moore (eBook)
10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (eBook—Audio Book)
11. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (eBook—Audio)
12. Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas (eBook)
13. La Maison Tellier by Guy de Maupassant (eBook)
14. The Red and the Black by Stendhal (eBook—Audio Book)
15. La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal (eBook)
16. Dubliners by James Joyce (eBook—Audio Book)
17. Reveries over Childhood and Youth by William Butler Yeats (eBook)
18. The Trembling of the Veil by William Butler Yeats (eBook)

How many of these have you read?  The best thing about this list is that every book is available for FREE.   Just click on the links after the book title to download your free copy.

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Fitzgerald's 22 Essential Books

Open Culture featured F. Scott Fitzgerald's list of "22 essential books, 1936."

“These are books that Scott thought should be required reading.”
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
The Old Wives’ Tale, by Arnold Bennett
The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiel Hammett
The Red and the Black, by Stendahl
The Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, translated by Michael Monahan
An Outline of Abnormal Psychology, edited by Gardner Murphy
The Stories of Anton Chekhov, edited by Robert N. Linscott
The Best American Humorous Short Stories, edited by Alexander Jessup
Victory, by Joseph Conrad
The Revolt of the Angels, by Anatole France
The Plays of Oscar Wilde
Sanctuary, by William Faulkner
Within a Budding Grove, by Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
South Wind, by Norman Douglas
The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works

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Maurice Sendak Reflects on the Difficulties of Childhood

Maurice Sendak Reflects on the Difficulties of Childhood in Newly-Released Animated Video

Blank on Blank has released a video that animates Sendak’s musings about being a kid. Based on a previously-unheard interview recorded in 2009, Sendak speaks in the clip about his difficult childhood, which was surrounded by tragedy. (He grew up in Brooklyn, the child of Polish Jewish immigrants whose remaining family perished during the Holocaust.) He also recalls how children all have problems to work through — problems that remained at the front of his mind when he started writing his classic children’s books. It’s worth pairing the video above with another animated video of Sendak’s emotional last interview with NPR’s Terry Gross. And, for a completely random bonus, we’ve added below a clip of James Gandolfini (aka Tony Soprano) reading from Sendak’s controversial story book In The Night Kitchen.-Open Culture

Click Image to listen to James Gandolfini read In The Night Kitchen

Another reflection on this unique pairing:

James Gandolfini Reads Maurice Sendak's Most Controversial Book

Two creative icons on the precipice of mortality.

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