Read The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway's 1920s Paris, Gertrude Stein and Fitzgerald, published after his death.

Three days with guerrillas to blow a bridge in the Spanish Civil War.

Roquentin in a Normandy town discovers that existence is absurd, starting with a chestnut root.

Julien Sorel climbs through Restoration France by seduction; Stendhal's ambition novel.

The madeleine and the first volume of In Search of Lost Time; start here.

Bardamu through the war, colonial Africa, Detroit and the Paris suburbs; Celine's furious slang.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.

Santiago, a marlin and the sharks; the novella that got Hemingway the Nobel.