>"Here's a list of books any writer should have

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>"Here's a list of books any writer should have read as a part of his education," he said, handing me the following list:

Stephen Crane-
The Blue Hotel
The Open Boat.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Dubliners - James Jyce
The Red and the Black By Stendhal
(Of Human Bondage - Somerset Muagham)
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Buddenbrooks - THomas Mann
Hail and Farewell - George Moore
Brothers Karamazoff - Doestoevsky
Oxford Book of English Verse -
The Enormous Room - E. E. Cummings
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Far Away and Long Ago - W. H. Hudson
The American - Henry James

>HE should have read War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoi, Midshipman Easy, Frank Mildmay and Peter Simple by Captain Marryat, Madame Bovary and L'Education Sentimentale by Flaubert, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Joyce's Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses, Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews by Fielding, Le Rouge Et Le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal, The Brothers Karamazov and any two other Dostoevskis, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Open Boat and the Blue Hotel by Stephen Crain, Hail and Farewell by George Moore, Yeat's Autobiographies, all the good De Maupassant, all the good Kipling, all of Turgenev, Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson, Henry James's short stories, especially Madame de Mauves and The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady [...]