Library famous people: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Favorite Books classics of American literature, the author of the novels "The Great Gatsby", "Tender Is the Night", "The Other Side of Paradise," about the life of a lost generation in the era of jazz.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald made a list of favorite books, he lived in a hotel in North Carolina, on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of problems with money and alcohol.

One day he made a scandal, fired from a revolver and threatened to commit suicide. Therefore, the hotel manager to be banned Fitzgerald room unaccompanied nurse. The writer became friends with the nurse Dorothy Richardson and reached for her list of books that, in his opinion, should read every person who is interested in literature.

Layfhaker publishes this list with links to resources where you can buy or read books.

1. "Sister Carrie", Theodore Dreiser (buy Litres.ru →).

2. "Life of Jesus", Ernest Renan (buy Litres.ru →).

3. "A Doll's House," Henrik Ibsen (read on Litres.ru →).

4. "Winesburg, Ohio," Sherwood Anderson.

5. "The story of the old woman," Arnold Bennett.

6. "The Maltese Falcon," Dashiell Hammett (buy Litres.ru →).

7. "Red and Black", Stendhal (buy Litres.ru →).

8. Stories by Guy de Maupassant (buy Litres.ru →).

9. Essays on Psychopathology, edited by Gardner Murphy.

10. Stories by Anton Chekhov.

11. "The Best American Humorous Stories" edited by Alexander Jessup.

12. "Victory," by Joseph Conrad.

13. "Rise of the angels," Anatole France.

14. Plays of Oscar Wilde (buy Litres.ru →).

15. "Sanctuary", William Faulkner (buy Litres.ru →).

16. "Under the shadow of girls color", Marcel Proust (buy Litres.ru →).

17. "The Guermantes", Marcel Proust (buy Litres.ru →).

18. "South Wind", Norman Douglas.

19. "Party in the garden," Katherine Mansfield.

20. "War and Peace," Leo Tolstoy (read on Litres.ru →).

21. Poems of John Keats (buy Litres.ru →).

22. Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (buy Litres.ru →).