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Once I asked [Hemingway] to give me a list of reading that he would recommend. He composed the following list:
“Boule de Suif” and “La Maison Tellier” — de Maupassant
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“The Red and the Black” — Stendhal
“Les Fleurs du Mal” — Baudelaire
“Madame Bovary” — Flaubert
“Remembrance of Things Past” — Proust
“Buddenbrooks” — Mann
“Taras Bulba” — Gogol
“The Brothers Karamazov” — Dostoevski
“Anna Karenina” and “War and Peace” — Tolstoy
“Huckleberry Finn” — Twain
“Moby Dick” — Melville
“The Scarlet Letter” — Hawthorne
“The Red Badge of Courage” — Crane
“Madame de Mauves” — James
