Legacy Library: Ernest Hemingway

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CollectionsYour library (7,411), Read but unowned (7), All collections (7,418)

Reviews47 reviews — see reviews

Tagsfiction (2,480), World War II (487), American literature (396), biography (386), poetry (336), memoir (313), British literature (310), travel (304), short stories (264), art (227) — see all tags

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Groups"I See Dead People's Books"

Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Fielding, Gustave Flaubert, Nikolai Gogol, William Henry Hudson, Henry James, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Mann, Frederick Marryat, Andrew Marvell, Guy de Maupassant, George Moore, William Shakespeare, Stendhal, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Mark Twain, Virgil, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

About meI won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for my novel The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year.

"I'm always reading books--as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply." - from an interview with George Plimpton in The Paris Review, Spring 1958.

"He read everything.... he would have a whole group of books going at one time, eight or ten.... he would put one down and pick up another." - Tillie Arnold, family friend and author of The Idaho Hemingway.

About my libraryBy the time of my death in 1961 I had amassed over 7400 books in my various homes. The long, long list has been input by my fans on LT, working from Hemingway's Library, the comprehensive list compiled by Dr. James D. Brasch and Dr. Joseph Sigman of McMaster University, and provided online through Boston’s John F. Kennedy Library, here. Also included in my library: the first editions of the books I authored (Drs. Brasch and Sigman note over 200 copies of my own books in my collection, but give no details).

Part of my library at Finca Vigía.
Photo courtesy of Darren Barefoot

and a close-up, courtesy Judith Sweet (also an LT member)

For in-depth details on my libraries in Key West and Cuba - and my book obsession - see the introduction to Hemingway's Library; for a more recent report on the current state of my Cuban library, see Adrian McKinty's article in the London Times, "Any Book in Hemingway's Library, $200".

My reviews of books and writers can be found in Ernest Hemingway On Writing, edited by Larry W. Phillips. Works and page numbers cited with quotes are from the Scribner paperback editions of my works.

A note on my favorite authors: they were added based on the information in Brasch & Sigman's introduction.

Homepagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

Real nameErnest Hemingway

LocationKetchum, Idaho

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Member sinceJan 4, 2008

Greetings! One more cover jpg for you: Way of the Lancer. Cheers, Jerry

posted by rocketjk at 9:23 pm (EST) on May 13, 2009

Pardon the intrusion. I saw your question to bfrank about the title, "The lonely people and their strange ways." Here is the information from a search of the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Relevance:
LC Control No.: 57014150
LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/57014150
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Bell, Ed, 1910-1956. [from old catalog]
Main Title: The lonely people and their strange ways. Selections compiled and edited by Robert Lasseter.
Published/Created: [Murfreesboro? Tenn.] 1957.
Description: 166 p. 21 cm.
Subjects: Murfreesboro, Tenn. --Social life and customs. [from old catalog]
LC Classification: PS3503.E4314 L6
Geographic Area Code: n-us-tn

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CALL NUMBER: PS3503.E4314 L6
Copy 1

posted by mrkurtz at 6:06 pm (EST) on May 13, 2009

Papa -- I am one of the many authors who have been impressed by the clarity and preciseness of your wriitng. Others I have known many authors who began writing trying to capture your style. One actually did it - Michael Shaara in his first novel THE BROKEN PLACE. I have done a thesis study on your style and my conclusion is it is God-given and not produced by any study. Your fifth grade essay on your summer voyage Carlos put into yhour biography shows the same style you wrote with in the Nick Adams stories. Thisw does not detract from the fact that if I had to read any writer for eternity it would be you, and NOT MYSELF, which is saying somethidng, eh:?

By the way: How did you come back from the dead and enter ISLANDS IN THE STREAM into your library. It was published posthumously.

posted by andyray at 2:00 pm (EST) on May 1, 2009

Greetings! FYI, I have added a cover jpg for The History of Nora Beckham by Joseph Stanley Pennell. Cheers!

posted by rocketjk at 5:18 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009

I'm surprised to learn that from my modest collection I share twenty-two volumes with Mr. Hemingway. I haven't read any of his works, though I recently purchased a relatively early edition of "A Farewell to Arms" (by which I mean it predates my birth by several decades) and it's next on my fiction list.

posted by stypulkoski at 3:28 am (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

On Marjorie Morningstar, there are many wirters who keep examples of bad writing. Some find it more instructive than good.

posted by benjclark at 10:42 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2008

Ooops... I wrote the comment below before learning about LT Legacy. My bad. :)

posted by redhotchili at 10:29 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2008

I'm delighted to discover that we both listed a book authored by a Filipino. But... what is this account supposed to be? Are these books those that you've read? If so, that's terribly interesting. ;)

Mabuhay! [Long live :D]

posted by redhotchili at 10:26 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2008

So far 36 shared~~~ as others have mentioned this is a goad to finishing listing all my books!

posted by Esta1923 at 1:02 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2008

Dear Ernest - I love the fact that, as I enter titles, I continue to find books that we both own. The biggest surprise so far? Marjorie Morningstar! Seriously...I almost didn't enter mine because, well, it's Marjorie Morningstar! The last time I picked it up for a reread I couldn't even get halfway through. Whatever are you doing with such a soppy 50's soap opera in your library? Did Herman Wouk send you a copy and you had to keep it on your shelf in case he ever stopped by? Just wondering.

posted by mary.haycock at 5:23 pm (EST) on May 29, 2008

Delighted to see how varied our 35 shared are.

posted by Esta1923 at 1:18 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2008

Hi Ernie,
I'm happy that you owned a copy of Dazai Osamu's "Shayo" (The setting Sun). :)

posted by handyfemme at 10:52 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2008

Dear Ernest Hemingway,

Today I discovered you have more books in common with me than any other Dead Person up to now(73) and this number will certainly have grown considerably once my own library will be fully catalogued.
Apparently we share some interests. And I think you are one of the really great authors of the 20th century. That's why I would be very honoured if you would accept to become my friend.
Would you please be so kind as to transmit my thanks to the people who put your considerable library on LT?

posted by JanWillemNoldus at 8:20 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

Another cover for you! I uploaded a cover for The Secret History of the War by Waverly Root. A caveat that the book is published in two volumes, and I posted the cover for Volume 1. You'll see a small encircled 1 centered toward the bottom of the cover. I also have Volume 2, but wasn't going to bother posting both covers. Let me know if you'd like that one. Cheers!

posted by rocketjk at 4:42 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

Greetings! I've put a cover up for We Landed at Dawn. Cheers!

posted by rocketjk at 12:27 am (EST) on Mar 22, 2008

Got a cover for you for Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill!

posted by rocketjk at 3:44 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2008

Greetings! Added a cover for Mission to Moscow by Joseph E. Davies. Cheers!

posted by rocketjk at 1:26 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2008

I've got a couple of more covers for you:

Cast Down the Laurel by Arnold Gingrich and

Congo Song by Stuart Cloete. The Congo Song cover is particularly amazing, as it includes the copy, "Alone in a society of men on the equater, Olga Le Blanc is occupoied by here lovers, her tame gorilla and her own good looks."

I kid you not. I couldn't make that up. Believe it or not, Congo Song is not a farce or parody. I tried reading it once and had to stop after about 100 pages because it was intensely boring. Hard to believe with a title and cover like that, but there you have it. Someday I'll give it another try, just to say I did!

posted by rocketjk at 5:10 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2008

Hello again. I've got a cover up for the paperback Signet edition of The Strange Land by New Calmer. Enjoy!

posted by rocketjk at 5:18 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2008

Hi, it's me again! Here's another book I share only with EH for which I've just added a cover: Watch Czechoslovakia by Richard Freund. Cheers!

posted by rocketjk at 4:20 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2008

Hi there! Thought I'd let you know that I've added a cover for Stronger than Fear by Richard Tregaskis. Cheers!

posted by rocketjk at 7:29 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Oltre le dolcezze dell'Harry's Bar

e le tenerezze di Zanzibar

c'era questa strada...

Oltre le illusioni di Timbuctù

e le gambe lunghe di Babalù

c'era questa strada...

Questa strada zitta che vola via

come una farfalla, una nostalgia,

nostalgia al gusto di curaçao...

...Forse un giorno meglio mi spieghero...

...Et alors, MONSIEUR HEMINGWAY,
ça va?

http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Pa...

Sorry, couldn't find the Hemingway-track....

posted by zerkalo at 7:20 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2008

I am delighted to see I share Italo Calvino's The baron in the trees with Hemingway, nontheless!

posted by crnfva at 12:31 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2008

Hi! Thought I'd let you know that I just uploaded a cover jpg for O'Malley of Shanganagh by Donn Byrne. Cheers! Jerry

posted by rocketjk at 3:26 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2008

Greetings!

I think the version posted here of a book called Our Fair City (http://www.librarything.com/work/4655060) is the same book that I posted today (http://www.librarything.com/work/4825145...), the difference being that your citation has no author listed. The Touchstone leads to your citation, which is essentially blank. Any chance you'd be willing to take a second to add the author, Robert S. Allen, so that these two would be combined?

Thanks!
Jerry

posted by rocketjk at 4:52 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2008

Oh, I have to admit I haven't read it, yet. But I have read his A Last Lamp Burning, and really enjoyed it. I see that a whopping 7 people here on LT own that one.

How's that after-life going for you so far? ;o)

posted by clamairy at 9:50 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2008

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