![]() ![]() It was before his trip to Africa to hunt big game. By trade, he was still a foreign correspondent living in Paris. At the time, he was still married to the first of his four wives. Hemingway began writing it on his 26th birthday, almost a hundred years ago. ![]() So, his “The Tree of Man” is at the top of my pile.Įarlier this year, I was asked to write an introduction for the forthcoming Penguin Classics edition of Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, “The Sun Also Rises.” I enjoyed rereading the book immensely. We’re about to launch into a survey of the Australian Nobel laureate, Patrick White. ![]() ![]() One spring we read Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady,” Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary,” George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” and Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” a project we referred to as “19th-Century Wives Under Pressure.” Often, we’ll read five or six works by a single writer chronologically. Every month, we meet in a restaurant in New York City to discuss a novel, arriving at 7 and lingering until they close the place. “My wife gave me the first edition of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ to be published in English (in 1886),” says the novelist Amor Towles, whose new book is “The Lincoln Highway.” “That the edition was in translation was just as well, since I don’t read a word of Russian.”įor the last 16 years, I’ve been reading with three friends. ![]()
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