Read A Moveable Feast

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.

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

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

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

Annie Ernaux's life from 1941 to 2006 as a collective French memory in the third person; her Nobel.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.

Orwell as a dishwasher and a tramp; poverty from the inside.