Libraries outstanding people: Ernest Hemingway
Books / / December 19, 2019
"Libraries outstanding people" - is heading, which we'll talk about favorite books of eminent personalities. Let's start with Ernest Hemingway - the man who created masterpieces and leisure time devoted to a single lesson - reading.
Hemingway wrote more than ten novels, nine non-fiction books and many short stories, poems and essays. All his books are written in a concise and rich language, and the main characters are often copied from the author's own, filled with courage, though not always do the right thing.
Hemingway loved to read since childhood. Here is what it said about his sister Marceline:
We read a lot of Ernest. Mostly the classics: Dickens, Scott, Shakespeare. One of our favorite books in my childhood was the "Treasure Island".
With age, the love of Hemingway's books only increased. The numbers are incredible, but many say that he read one book per day, and at least two or three newspapers. Nothing has changed in travel: Hemingway was a separate bag, brim full of not yet read the book.
The daily routine was formed as follows:
- from morning to afternoon - work;
- from lunch until the evening - reading.
And read Hemingway not to be gleaned from the book is an important life lesson, but rather for fun in the process. Books from the list below - this is not a random collection of works, read Hemingway. As you know, such a list could be endless. We have chosen books that are most often found in different sources, describing the writer's preference.
Hemingway's favorite books
- «King Lear"Shakespeare.
- «Anna Karenina", Lev Tolstoy.
- «War and Peace", Lev Tolstoy.
- «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain.
- «In Search of Lost Time"Marcel Proust.
- «Queen Margo", Alexandr Duma.
- «The brothers Karamazov", Fedor Dostoevsky.
- «Napoleon's Invasion of Russia"Yevgeny Tarle.
- «Ulysses"James Joyce.
- «Red and black"Stendhal.