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Favorite books of the classic of American literature, author of the novels "The Great Gatsby", "Tender Night", "On the Other Side of Paradise" about the life of a lost generation in the era of jazz.
When Francis Scott Fitzgerald made a list of his favorite books, he was living in a hotel in North Carolina, on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to money and alcohol problems.
One day he made a scandal, fired a revolver and threatened to commit suicide. Therefore, the hotel managers forbade Fitzgerald to stay in the rooms without being accompanied by a nurse. The writer became friends with nurse Dorothy Richardson and compiled for her a list of books that, in his opinion, every person interested in literature should read.
The life hacker publishes this list with links to resources where you can buy or read books.
1. "Sister Carrie", Theodore Dreiser (buy at Litres.ru →).
2. The Life of Jesus, Ernest Renan (buy at Litres.ru →).
3. "A Doll's House", Henrik Ibsen (read on Litres.ru →).
4. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson.
5. A Tale of Old Women by Arnold Bennett.
6. "The Maltese Falcon", Dashil Hammett (buy on Litres.ru →).
7. "Red and Black", Stendhal (buy at Litres.ru →).
8. Guy de Maupassant's stories (buy at Litres.ru →).
9. Essays on Psychopathology, edited by Gardner Murphy.
10. Stories by Anton Chekhov.
11. Best American Humorous Stories edited by Alexander Jessup.
12. Victory by Joseph Conrad.
13. Rise of the Angels, Anatole France.
14. Plays by Oscar Wilde (buy on Litres.ru →).
15. "Sanctuary", William Faulkner (buy at Litres.ru →).
16. "In the shade of girls in bloom", Marcel Proust (buy at Litres.ru →).
17. “At the Germans”, Marcel Proust (buy at Litres.ru →).
18. South Wind by Norman Douglas.
19. Garden Party by Catherine Mansfield.
20. "War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (read on Litres.ru →).
21. Poems by John Keats (buy at Litres.ru →).
22. Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley (buy on Litres.ru →).
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