[List of books considered essential] : autograph manuscript signed : [Key West], [1934 Apr.].

Record ID: 
371010
Accession number: 
MA 8620
Author: 
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors, 2014.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 27 cm
Notes: 

Place of writing and date are from Arnold Samuelson's account of receiving the list from Hemingway in his With Hemingway: a Year in Key West and Cuba.

Summary: 

Hemingway's list of books an aspiring author should read includes Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel" and "The Open Boat"; Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; James Joyce's Dubliners; Stendhal's The Red and the Black; Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace; Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks; George Moore's Hail and Farewell; Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; the Oxford Book of English Verse; E.E. Cummings' The Enormous Room; Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; W.H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; and Henry James' The American.

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (29.4 cm)
Provenance: 
Arnold Samuelson.