La Biblioteca de Marilyn Monroe, lectora y escritora.

Hacía mucho tiempo que tenía ganas de innovar un poco en el blog e incluir algo además de Reseñas, Teasers Mondays, Bookstrailers, etc. Necesitaba poder escribir y divertirme un poco buscando información, encontrando imágenes, haciendo mis comentarios y conociendo los vuestros sobre post relacionados con los libros pero sin ser los habituales en mis secciones.
Desde siempre me ha encantado encontrar imágenes de actores, cantantes y famosos varios con un libro en la mano. Cierto es que muchas veces es cuestión de postureo, de una escena de una serie o película, de una pose para mostrar a los medios o de un momento puntual, pero también es cierto que el placer de la lectura no es algo exclusivo de la gente con vidas corrientes, por lo que me he decidido a descubrir que hay más allá de esas fotos y cotillear en las bibliotecas de los famosos.
Para arrancar tenía varios personajes, pero finalmente me he decidido por un eterno mito erótico y una leyenda del cine. Hoy intentaré hacer un poco de justicia a La Bomba Rubia, la actriz más famosa de todos los tiempos, una gran historia trágica desconocida por muchos y a la que le persiguió siempre la imagen de mujer frívola, boba y superficial. 
Hoy veremos algunas de las maravillas que escondía La Biblioteca de Marilyn Monroe, una mujer culta, con necesitaba escribir constantemente y que buscaba en los libros un refugio a su soledad. 
Fue tras fallecer, la noche del 4 al 5 de Agosto de 1962, cuando su heredera Anna Strasberg subastó su biblioteca, formada por más de 400 libros, y donó el dinero a la institución benéfica Literary Partners. Años después, gracias a los catálogos de subasta, la red social Librarything ha conseguido realizar una lista con 262 de estos libros. 
Entre sus estanterías había novelas de Thomas Wolf, Tenesse Williams, Saint-Exupery, Rafael Alberti, Antonio Machado, Mann, Kerouac, Proust, Dostoievski, Einstein, Oppenheimer o Freud.
Entre sus amigos y conocidos autores como Isak Dineses, escitora de Memorias de África, Norman Roster, Truman Capote o Carson McCullers, y entre sus maridos y amantes el dramaturgo Arthur Miller.
Libros como Alicia en el País de las Maravillas de Lewis Carrol, Fiesta de Hemingway, La cáida de Albert Camus, El Gran Gatsby de F.S.Fitzgerald, Un tranvía llamado deseo, La primavera romana de Nrs. Stone y Camino Real de Tenesse Williams, La sabiduría de la arena de Saint-Exupery, Mira a casa, Ángel, Una piedra, una hoja y una puerta de Thomas Wolfe, etc. 

Creo que esto es más que suficiente para dejar claro que Marilyn Monroe demostró que el mito de Todas las rubias son tontas es completamente falso. Es más, os invito a que reviséis la lista y reviséis cuantos de sus autores/títulos conocéis y cuantos habéis leído. 

Pero otro dato que muchos desconocen es que Marilyn Monroe fue una escritora atormentada por su imagen frívola, tal y como se demuestra en el libro Fragmentos: poemas, notas personales, cartas, una recopilación de las poemas, apuntes y diarios de la actriz que fueron recopilados y publicados en España en el año 2010 por la Editorial Seix Barral.

Qué vergüenza tener treinta añosy ser una niña asustada.Qué vergüenza que todos me mireny tener ganas de llorar.Qué vergüenza los periodistaspreguntándome cosasy que yo no recuerdeninguna de las cosas inteligentesque aprendí para responderlesQué vergüenza esta máscarade hermosa rubia tontaque tapa mi verdadero rostrode tonta rubia tonta.

A partir de este momento, en la entrada podéis hacer dos cosas: seguir leyendo y descubrir a una gran desconocida a través de los títulos de su librería, o simplemente deleitaros con las fotografías de esta gran y atormentada mujer que se fue demasiado pronto.
Existe una lista recopilatoria de Everlasting Star del 2006. La mayoría de estos libros fueron incluidos en el catálogo de la subasta realizada por Christie's en 1999. En la lista podréis encontrar además treinta libros extras que fueron leídos por Marylin y que aparecen en The Unabridged Marilyn de Randall & Riese (a partir del título número 391)
Poco a poco iré traduciendo los títulos para facilitarnos el trabajo a todos. 

1) Let’s Make Love by Matthew Andrews (novelisation of the movie)2) Cómo viajar de incógnito de Ludwig Bemelmans3) To The One I Love Best by Ludwig Bemelmans4) Thurber Country by James Thurber5) The Fall by Albert Camus6) Marilyn Monroe de George Carpozi7) Camille de Alexander Dumas8 ) El Hombre Invisible de Ralph Ellison9) El cocinero de la escuela de Cocina de Boston de Fannie Merritt-Farmer10) El Gran Gatsby de F Scott Fitzgerald11) Desde Rusia con amor de Ian Fleming12) El arte de amar de Erich Fromm13) El Profeta de Kahlil Gilbran14) Ulysses de James Joyce15) Stoned Like A Statue: A Complete Survey Of Drinking Cliches, Primitive, Classical & Modern by Howard Kandel & Don Safran, with an intro by Dean Martin (a man who knew how to drink!)16) The Last Temptation Of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis17) En el camino de Jack Kerouac18)Selección de poemas de DH Lawrence19 and 20) Hijos y amantes de DH Lawrence (2 ediciones)
21) The Portable DH Lawrence22) Etruscan Places (DH Lawrence?)23) DH Lawrence: un estudio básico de sus ideas de Mary Freeman24) El asistente de Bernard Malamud25) El barril mágico de Bernard Malamud26) Muerte en Venecia y otras siete historias de Thomas Mann27) Last Essays by Thomas Mann28) The Thomas Mann Reader29) Hawaii de James Michener30) Rosas rojas para mi de Sean O’Casey31) I Knock At The Door by Sean O’Casey32) Selected Plays by Sean O’Casey33) The Green Crow by Sean O’Casey34) Golden Boy by Clifford Odets35) Encuentro en la noche de Clifford Odets36) La campesina de Clifford Odets37) 6 Plays Of Clifford Odets38) The Cat With 2 Faces by Gordon Young39) Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill40) Part Of A Long Story: Eugene O’Neill As A Young Man In Love by Agnes Boulton41) The Little Engine That Could by Piper Watty (pencil scrawls at end, possibly MM’s)42) The New Joy Of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer & Marion Rombauer-Becker (with some cut recipes, page markers, a typed diet sheet and manuscript shopping list, apparently in MM’s hand, laid in)43) Selected Plays Of George Bernard Shaw44) Ellen Terry And Bernard Shaw – A Correspondence
45) Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell – Their Correspondence46) The Short Reigh Of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck47) Once There Was A War by John Steinbeck48) Set This House On Fire by William Styron49) Lie Down In Darkness (William Styron?)50) La primavera romana de la Señora Stone de Tennessee Williams51) Camino Real de Tennessee Williams52) Un tranvía llamado deseo de Tennessee Williams (con anotaciones de Marilyn Monroe)53) The Flower In Drama And Glamour by Stark Young (inscribed to MM by Lee Strasberg, Christmas 1955)54) Suave es la noche de  F. Scott Fitzgerald55) La historia de una novela de Thomas Wolfe56) El Ángel que nos mira de Thomas Wolfe57) A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (Thomas Wolfe?)58) Cartas de Thomas Wolfe a su madre, ed. John Skally Terry59) Adiós a las armas de Ernest Hemingway60) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway61) Winesburg, Ohio de Sherwood Anderson62) Hermana Carrie deTheodore Dreiser63) Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck64) The American Claimant & Other Stories & Sketches by Mark Twain65) In Defense of Harriet Shelley & Other Essays (Mark Twain?)66) The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain67) Roughing It (Mark Twain?)68) The Magic Christian by Terry Southern69) A Death In The Family by James Agee70) The War Lover by John Hersey
71) Don’t Call Me By My Right Name & Other Stories by James Purdy72) Malcolm by James Purdy
ANTOLOGÍAS
73) The Portable Irish Reader (pub. Viking)74) The Portable Poe – Edgar Allen Poe75) The Portable Walt Whitman76) This Week’s Short Stories (New York, 1953)77) Bedside Book Of Famous Short Stories78) Short Novels Of Colette79) Short Story Masterpieces (New York, 1960)80) The Passionate Playgoer by George Oppenheimer81) Fancies And Goodnights by John Collier82) Evergreen Review, Vol 2, No. 683) The Medal & Other Stories by Luigi Pirandello
LIBROS DE ARTE
84) Max Weber (art book – inscribed to MM by ‘Sam’ – Shaw?)85) Renoir by Albert Skira86) Max by Giovannetti Pericle87) The Family Of Man by Carl Sandburg88-90) Horizon, A Magazine Of The Arts (Nov 1959, Jan 1960, Mar 1960.)91) Jean Dubuffet by Daniel CordierBIOGRAFÍAS92) The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham93) Close To Colette by Maurice Goudeket94) This Demi-Paradise by Margaret Halsey95) Dios me proteja de mis amigos de Gavin Maxwell
96) Minister Of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story by Quentin Reynolds, Ephraim Katz and Zwy Aldouby
97) Dance To The Piper by Agnes DeMille98) Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It by Mae West99) Act One by Moss HartCIENCIA CRISTIANA100) Science And Health With Key To The Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy101) Poems, Including Christ And Christmas by Mary Baker EddyOBRAS CLÁSICAS102) 2 Plays: Peace And Lysistrata by Aristophanes103) Of The Nature Of Things by Lucretius104) La Filosofía de Platón105) Mitología de Edith Hamilton106) Theory Of Poetry And Fine Art by Aristotle107) Metafísica de Aristotle108-111) Plutarch’s Lives, Vols 3-6 only (of 6) by William and John LanghorneNARRATIVA CULTURAL
112) Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie113) The Support Of The Mysteries by Paul Breslow114) Paris Blues by Harold Flender115) The Shook-Up Generation by Harrison E. SalisburyTEXTOS Y TRADUCCIONES EN IDIOMAS EXTRANJEROS116) An Mands Ansigt by Arthur Miller117) Independent People by Halldor Laxness118) Mujer by Lina Rolan (inscribed to MM by author)119) The Havamal, ed. D.E. Martin Clarke120) Yuan Mei: 18th Century Chinese Poet by Arthur Waley121) Almanach: Das 73 Jahr by S. Fischer VerlagLITERATURA FRANCESA122) Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert123) The Works Of Rabelais124) The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust125) Cities Of The Plain by Marcel Proust126) Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust127) The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust128) The Captive by Marcel Proust129) Nana de Emile Zola130) Plays by Moliere
FREUD131) The Life And Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones132) Letters Of Sigmund Freud, ed. Ernest L. Freud133) Glory Reflected by Martin Freud134) Moses And Monotheism by Sigmund Freud135) Conditioned Reflex Therapy by Andrew Salter
JARDINERÍA Y MASCOTAS
136-137) La Enciclopedia del Jardín Sabio, ed. E.L.D. Seymour (2 ediciones)138) Landscaping Your Own Home by Alice Dustan139) Outpost Nurseries – publicity brochure140) El bosque y el mar de Marston Bates141) Pet Turtles by Julien Bronson142) A Book About Bees by Edwin Way Teale143) Codfish, Cats & Civilisation by Gary WebsterHUMOR144) How To Do It, Or, The Art Of Lively Entertaining by Elsa Maxwell145) Wake Up, Stupid by Mark Harris146) Merry Christmas, Happy New Year by Phyllis McGinley147) The Hero Maker by Akbar Del Piombo & Norman Rubington148) How To Talk At Gin by Ernie Kovacs149) VIP Tosses A Party, by Virgil Partch150) Who Blowed Up The House & Other Ozark Folk Tales, ed. Randolph Vance151) Snobs by Russell Lynes
LITERATURA JUDAICA 152) The Form of Daily Prayers153) Sephath Emeth (Speech Of Truth): Order Of Prayers For The Wholes Year In Jewish and English154) Las Santas Escrituras según el texto Masotérico (inscribed to MM by Paula Strasberg, July 1, 1956)LITERATURA155) La Ley de Roger Vailland156) The Building by Peter Martin157) Las sirenas de Boros158) They Came To Cordura by Glendon Swarthout159) The 7th Cross by Anna Seghers160) A European Education by Romain Gary161) Strike For A Kingdom by Menna Gallie162) The Slide Area by Gavin Lambert163) La mujer pobre de Leon Bloy164) Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson165) The Contenders by John Wain166) The Best Of All Worlds, Or, What Voltaire Never Knew by Hans Jorgen Lembourn (is this the same guy who later wrote a book about Marilyn?)167) La historia de Esther Costello by Nicholas Montsarrat168) Oh Careless Love by Maurice Zolotow (MM biographer)169) Add A Dash Of Pity by Peter Ustinov170) Una tragedia americana de Theodore Dreiser (filmed as A Place In The Sun)171) La marca del guerrero de Paul Scott172) The Dancing Bear by Edzard Schaper173) Miracle In The Rain by Ben Hecht (co-author of MM’s autobiography)174) The Guide by R.K. Narayan
175) Blow Up A Storm by Garson Kanin (screenwriter on Let’s Make Love)
176) Jonathan by Russell O’Neill177) Fowlers End by Gerald Kersh178) Hurricane Season by Ralph Winnett179) The un-Americans by Alvah Bessie (later wrote The Symbol, a novel loosely based on MM’s life)180) The Devil’s Advocate by Morris L. West181) On Such A Night by Anthony Quayle182) Say You Never Saw Me by Arthur NesbittLITERATURA, CTD.183) All The Naked Heroes by Alan Kapener184) Jeremy Todd by Hamilton Maule185) Miss America de Daniel Stren186) Fiebre en la sangre de William Pearson187) Espartaco de Howard Fast188) Venetian Red by L.M. Pasinetti189) A Cup Of Tea For Mr Thorgill by Storm Jameson190) Six O’Clock Casual by Henry W. Cune
191) Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong (the MM movie Don’t Bother To Knock was based on this novel)192) The Gingko Tree by Sheelagh Burns193) The Mountain Road by Theodore H. White194) Three Circles Of Light by Pietro Di Donato195) The Day The Money Stopped by Brendan Gill196) The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins (Hollywood-set bestseller, featuring a Jean Harlow-based character, Rina Marlowe. Marilyn’s secretary, Margerie Stengel, recalls that Marilyn was reading a Robbins novel in her New York apartment in 1961.)197-198) Justine by Lawrence Durrell (2 editions, possibly read during filming of The Misfits)199) Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell200) Brighton Rock by Graham Greene201) El agente secreto de Joseph Conrad202) The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett203) Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog by Dylan Thomas (Marilyn met Thomas in Shelley Winters’ apartment circa 1951)204) Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, by Malcolm Lowry
LITERATURA MODERNA
205) El ruido y la furia/Mientras agonizo de William Faulkner206) La parcela de Dios de Erskine Caldwell207) Anna Christie/The Emperor Jones/The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (Marilyn played Anna in a scene performed at the Actor’s Studio in 1956)208) La Filosofía de Schopenhauer de Irwin Edman209) La Filosofía de Spinoza de Joseph Ratner 210) Los Dublineses de James Joyce211) Selección de Poemas de Emily Dickinson212) The Collected Short Stories by Dorothy Parker (Friend of Marilyn’s, lived nearby her Doheny Drive apartment in 1961)213) Trabajos Selectos de Alexander Pope214) Rojo y negro de Stendhal215) La vida de Michelangelo de John Addington
216) Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (Niagara director Henry Hathaway wanted to film this with MM and James Dean. It was eventually made with Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey.)217) Three Famous French Romances (W. Somerset Maugham?)218) Napoleon de Emil Ludwig219) Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert (una segunda copia)220) The Poems And Fairy-Tales by Oscar Wilde221) Alicia en el País de las Maravillas/Alicia a través del espejo/La caza de Snark, deLewis Carroll222) Huracán en Jamaica de Richard Hughes223) An Anthology Of American Negro Literature, ed. Sylvestre C. Watkins
MÚSICA224) Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan225) Music For The Millions by David Ewen226) Schubert by Ralph Bates227) Men Of Music by Wallace Brockaway and Herbert WeinstockOBRAS DE TEATRO228) The Potting Shed by Graham Greene229) Politics In The American Drama by Caspar Nannes230) Sons Of Men by Herschel Steinhardt231) Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin (MM auditioned for the movie, but Judy Holliday got the part)232) Untitled & Other Radio Drams by Norman Corwin233) Thirteen By Corwin, by Norman Corwin234) More By Corwin, by Norman Corwin235) Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill (a second copy)236) Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951237) Theatre ’52 by John Chapman238) 16 Famous European Plays, by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell239) The Complete Plays Of Henry James240) 20 Best Plays Of The Modern American Theatre, by John Glassner241) Elizabethan Plays by Hazelton Spencer242) Critics’ Choice by Jack Gaver
243) Modern American Dramas by Harlan Hatcher244) The Album Of The Cambridge Garrick ClubPOESÍA 
245) A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Houseman246) The Poetry & Prose Of Heinrich Heine by Frederich Ewen247) The Poetical works Of John Milton, by H.C. Beeching248) The Poetical Works Of Robert Browning (H.C. Beeching?)249) Wordsworth by Richard Wilbur250) The Poetical Works Of Shelley (Richard Wilbur?)251) The Portable Blake, by William Blake252) William Shakespeare: Sonnets, ed. Mary Jane Gorton253) Poems Of Robert Burns, ed. Henry Meikle & William Beattie254) The Penguin Book Of English Verse, ed. John Hayward255) Aragon: Poet Of The French Resistance, by Hannah Josephson & Malcolm Cowley256) Star Crossed by Margaret TildenPOESÍA AMERICANA
257 and 258) Collected Sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay (2 editions)259) Robert Frost’s Poems by Louis Untermeyer (Marilyn befriended Untermeyer during her marriage to Arthur)260) Poe: Complete Poems by Richard Wilbur (a 2nd copy?)261) The Life And Times Of Archy And Mehitabel by Don Marquis262) The Pocketbook Of Modern Verse by Oscar Williams263) Poems by John Tagliabue264) Selected Poems by Rafael Alberti265) Selected Poetry by Robinson Jeffers266) The American Puritans: Their Prose & Poetry, by Perry Miller267) Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke268) Poet In New York by Federico Garcia Lorca269) The Vapor Trail by Ivan Lawrence Becker (inscribed to Arthur by the author, there is also a note to MM)270) Love Poems & Love Letters For All The Year271) 100 Modern Poems, ed. Selden Rodman272) The Sweeniad, by Myra Buttle273) Poetry: A Magazine Of Verse, Vol.70, no. 6
POLÍTICA274) The Wall Between by Anne Braden275) The Roots Of American Communism by Theodore Draper276) A View Of The Nation – An Anthology : 1955-1959, ed. Henry Christian277) A Socialist’s Faith by Norman Thomas278-279) Rededication To Freedom by Benjamin Ginzburg (2 copies)280) The Ignorant Armies by E.M. Halliday281) Commonwealth Vs Sacco & Vanzetti, by Robert P. Weeks282) Journey To The Beginning by Edgar Snow283) Das Kapital by Karl Marx284) Lidice by Eleanor Wheeler285) The Study Of History by Arnold Toynbee286) America The Invincible by Emmet John Hughes287) The Unfinished Country by Max Lerner288) Red Mirage by John O’Kearney289) Background & Foreground – The New York Times Magazine: An Anthology, ed. Lester Markel (a friend of MM)290) The Failure Of Success by Esther Milner291) A Piece Of My Mind by Edmund Wilson292) The Truth About The Munich Crisis by Viscount Maugham293) The Alienation Of Modern Man by Fritz Pappenheim294) A Train Of Powder by Rebecca West295) Report From Palermo by Danilo Dolci296) The Devil In Massachusetts by Marion Starkey297) American Rights: The Constitution In Action, by Walter Gellhorn298) Night by Francis Pollini299) The Right Of The People by William Douglas300) The Jury Is Still Out by Irwin Davidson and Richard Gehman301) First Degree by William Kunstler302) Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville303) World Underworld by Andrew VarnaORACIÓN
304) Catechism For Young Children (1936, so may be from Norma Jeane’s childhood)305) Prayer Changes Things (1952, inscribed to MM – perhaps from Jane Russell?)306) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (a second copy?)307) The Magic Word L.I.D.G.T.T.F.T.A.T.I.M. by Robert Collier308) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (a third copy?)309) His Brother’s Keeper by Milton Gross (3-page extract from Readers’ Digest, Dec 1961)310) Christliches ergissmeinnicht by K. Ehmann311) And It Was Told Of A Certain Potter by Walter C. Lanyon (1922, a gift from Ana Lower. Several newspaper poems and prayers tipped in.)312) Bahai Prayers (inscribed to MM, ‘Marilyn Monroe Maybeline. A gift for my darling Maybeline, with all my love, Charlzetta’ – dated 1961.)PSICOLOGÍA313) Man Against Himself by Karl A. Menninger314) The Tower And The Abyss by Erich Kahler315) Something To Live By, by Dorothea S. Kopplin316) Man’s Supreme Inheritance by Alexander F. Matthias317) The Miracles Of Your Mind by Joseph Murphy318) The Wisdom Of The Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupery319) A Prison, A Paradise by Loran Hurnscot320) The Magic Of Believing by Claude M. Bristol321) Peace Of Mind by Joshua Loth Liebman322) The Use Of The Self by Alexander F. Matthias323) The Power Within You by Claude M. Bristol324) The Call Girl by Harold Greenwald325) Troubled Women by Lucy Freeman (who later wrote Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe)
326) Relax And Live by Joseph A. Kennedy327) Forever Young, Forever Healthy by Indra Devi328) The Open Self by Charles Morris329) Hypnotism Today by Leslie Lecron & Jean Bordeaux330) The Masks Of God: Primitive Mythology, by Joseph Campbell331) Some Characteristics Of Today by Rudolph SteinerLIBROS DE REFERENCIA332) Baby & Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (pub. 1958)333) Flower Arranging For Fun by Hazel Peckinpaugh Dunlop334) Hugo’s Pocket Dictionary: French-English And English-French335) Spoken French For Travellers And Tourists, by Charles Kany & Mathurin Dondo336) Roget’s Pocket Thesaurus, by C.O. Mawson & K.A. WhitingRELIGIÓN337) What Is A Jew? by Morris Kertzer338) A Partisan Guide To The Jewish Problem, by Milton Steinberg339) The Tales Of Rabbi Nachman, by Martin Buber340) The Saviours Of God: Spiritual Exercises, by Nikos Kazantzakis341) The Prophet by Kahlil Gilbran (4th copy?)342) The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows343) The Secret Books Of The Egyptian Gnostics, by Jean Doresse344) Jesus by Kahlil Gilbran345) Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy346) Why I Am Not A Christian, by Bertrand Russell
LITERATURA RUSA347) Redemption & Other Plays by Leo Tolstoy348) The Viking Library Portable Anton Chekhov349) The House Of The Dead, by Fyodor Dostoevsky350) Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky351) Best Russian Stories: An Anthology, ed. Thomas Seltzer352) The Plays Of Anton Chekhov353) Smoke by Ivan Turgenev354) The Poems, Prose & Plays Of Alexander Pushkin355) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (not in the Christies’ catalogue. But friends of MM recall her reading it as a young actress, and she had hopes of playing Grushenka. Her own remarks in interviews make it clear that she had read the novel.)LIBROS CIENTÍFICOS356) Our Knowledge Of The External World, by Bertrand Russell357) Common Sense And Nuclear Warfare, by Bertrand Russell358) Out Of My Later Years by Albert Einstein359) Men And Atoms by William Laurence360) Man Alive by Daniel Colin Munro (inscribed to Renna Campbell from Lorraine?)361) Doctor Pygmalion by Maxwell Maltz362) Panorama: A New Review, ed. R.F. Tannenbaum363) Everyman’s Search by Rebecca Beard364) Of Stars And Men by Harlow Shapley
365) From Hiroshima To The Moon, by Daniel Lang366) The Open Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer367) Sexual Impotence In The Male, by Leonard Paul WershubGUIONES Y LECTURAS368) Medea by Jeffers Robinson369) Antigone by Jean Anouilh370) Bell, Book And Candle by John Van Druten371) The Women by Clare Boothe372) Jean Of Lorraine by Maxwell AndersonVIAJES
373) The Sawbwa And His Secretary by C.Y. Lee
374) The Twain Shall Meet by Christopher Rand375) Kingdom Of The Rocks by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery376) The Heart Of India by Alexander Campbell377) Man-Eaters Of India by Jim Corbett378) Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett379) My India by Jim Corbett380) A Time In Rome by Elizabeth Bowen381) London by Jacques Boussard382) New York State Vacationlands383) Russian Journey by William O. Douglas384) The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer
AUTORAS FEMENÍNAS385) The Portable Dorothy Parker386) My Antonia by Willa Cather387) Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather388) The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers (befriended Marilyn when she first moved to New York)389) The Short Novels Of Colette (A second copy?)390) The Little Disturbances Of Man by Grace PaleyLibros Extra
391) The Autobiography Of Lincoln Steffens (read during The Fireball)392-403) Carl Sandburg’s 12-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln404) The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Marilyn gave a copy to Joe after their wedding)405) Poems Of W.B. Yeats (Marilyn read his poems aloud at Norman Rosten’s house)406) Mr Roberts by Joyce Cary407) The Thinking Body by Mabel Elsworth Todd408) The Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky409) The Bible410) The Biography Of Eleanora Duse, by William Weaver411) De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Study Of Human Bone Structure) by Andreas Vesalius412) Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson413) Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs A, by Richard Aldrich414) Goodnight Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler415) Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton416) How Stanislavsky Directs by Mikhail Gorchakov417) I Married Adventure by Olso Johnson
418) The Importance Of Living by Lin Yutang
419) Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (read during All About Eve)420) Psychology Of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud421) The Rains Came by Louis Broomfield422) The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine (read during Some Like It Hot)423) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust424) To The Actor by Michael Chekhov (Marilyn’s acting teacher from 1950-1955)425) Dr Newman, M.D. by Leo Rosten (Novel based on Dr Ralph Greenson’s as an army doctor in Korea. Marilyn was said to be reading this on the week of her death. A film based on the book was released in 1963.)426) Songs For Patricia by Norman Rosten427) A Lost Lady by Willa Cather (Marilyn hoped to film this with her production company. But an earlier adaptation was so disappointing to the author, that she withdrew the film rights to all her books.)428) Lust For Life by Irving Stone429) The Deer Park by Norman Mailer (Hollywood-based novel. Marilyn commented on the book, ‘He’s too impressed by power, in my opinion.’ Mailer tried unsuccessfully to meet Marilyn, and after her death wrote several books on her.)430) Focus by Arthur Miller (A novel, Marilyn’s favourite work by him)431) Plays by Arthur Miller432) Poetry by e.e.cummings (Arthur bought Marilyn a copy when they first met in 1951)433) Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman434) Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (When Marilyn was at Parkside she enjoyed listening to a radio broadcast of UMW with Richard Burton as the narrator. She told Jack Cardiff about and he bought her a copy)435) ‘The Collected Lakeland Poets’436) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy437) An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (play adapted by Arthur Miller)438) How to Develop Your Thinking Ability by Kenneth S. Keyes (She was photographed reading this at home in 1953)