Ernest Hemingway

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Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises. The most imitated prose stylist of the 20th century. Hemingway's reading list — drawn from his Paris Review interviews — is a masterclass in the literary education of a great writer.

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The Brothers Karamazov

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Anna Karenina

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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

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The Charterhouse of Parma

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III

William Butler Yeats

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Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding

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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Henry Fielding

4.9k

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The red and the Black

1783-1842 Stendhal

4.6k

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Mr. Midshipman Easy

Frederick Marryat

4.6k

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The Complete Short Stories of Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

4.5k

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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

4.5k

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Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

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Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

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Madame de Mauves

Henry James

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The American

Henry James

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Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

4.3k

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The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

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The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

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The Open Boat and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

4.2k

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Kim

Rudyard Kipling

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Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

4.1k

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'hail and Farewell!'

George Moore

4.1k

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Dubliners

James Joyce

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Ulysses

James Joyce

4.1k

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Far Away and Long Ago

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