BOOKS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, THAT INFLUENCED KURT THE MOST*:
*Not all books listed are of the same edition read
Ernest Hemingway’s Recommended Reading
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- The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane
- The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- Hail and Farewell by George Moore
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- The Oxford Book of English Verse
- The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
- The American by Henry James
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Recommended Reading
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- 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
- An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by Gardner Murphy
- The Stories of Anton Chekhov
- The Best American Humorous Short Stories
- 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
- The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley