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 años

y ser una niña asustada.

Qué vergüenza que todos me miren

y tener ganas de llorar.

Qué vergüenza los periodistas

preguntándome cosas

y que yo no recuerde

ninguna de las cosas inteligentes

que aprendí para responderles

Qué vergüenza esta máscara

de hermosa rubia tonta

que tapa mi verdadero rostro

de 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 Bemelmans

3) To The One I Love Best by Ludwig Bemelmans

4) Thurber Country by James Thurber

5) The Fall by Albert Camus

6) Marilyn Monroe de George Carpozi

7) Camille de Alexander Dumas

8 ) El Hombre Invisible de Ralph Ellison

9) El cocinero de la escuela de Cocina de Boston de Fannie Merritt-Farmer

10) El Gran Gatsby de F Scott Fitzgerald

11) Desde Rusia con amor de Ian Fleming

12) El arte de amar de Erich Fromm

13) El Profeta de Kahlil Gilbran

14) Ulysses de James Joyce

15) 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 Kazantzakis

17) En el camino de Jack Kerouac

18)Selección de poemas de DH Lawrence

19 and 20) Hijos y amantes de DH Lawrence (2 ediciones)

21) The Portable DH Lawrence

22) Etruscan Places (DH Lawrence?)

23) DH Lawrence: un estudio básico de sus ideas de Mary Freeman

24) El asistente de Bernard Malamud

25) El barril mágico de Bernard Malamud

26) Muerte en Venecia y otras siete historias de Thomas Mann

27) Last Essays by Thomas Mann

28) The Thomas Mann Reader

29) Hawaii de James Michener

30) Rosas rojas para mi de Sean O’Casey

31) I Knock At The Door by Sean O’Casey

32) Selected Plays by Sean O’Casey

33) The Green Crow by Sean O’Casey

34) Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

35) Encuentro en la noche de Clifford Odets

36) La campesina de Clifford Odets

37) 6 Plays Of Clifford Odets

38) The Cat With 2 Faces by Gordon Young

39) Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

40) Part Of A Long Story: Eugene O’Neill As A Young Man In Love by Agnes Boulton

41) 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 Shaw

44) Ellen Terry And Bernard Shaw – A Correspondence

45) Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell – Their Correspondence

46) The Short Reigh Of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck

47) Once There Was A War by John Steinbeck

48) Set This House On Fire by William Styron

49) Lie Down In Darkness (William Styron?)

50) La primavera romana de la Señora Stone de Tennessee Williams

51) Camino Real de Tennessee Williams

52) 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 Fitzgerald

55) La historia de una novela de Thomas Wolfe

56) El Ángel que nos mira de Thomas Wolfe

57) A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (Thomas Wolfe?)

58) Cartas de Thomas Wolfe a su madre, ed. John Skally Terry

59) Adiós a las armas de Ernest Hemingway

60) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

61) Winesburg, Ohio de Sherwood Anderson

62) Hermana Carrie deTheodore Dreiser

63) Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

64) The American Claimant & Other Stories & Sketches by Mark Twain

65) In Defense of Harriet Shelley & Other Essays (Mark Twain?)

66) The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

67) Roughing It (Mark Twain?)

68) The Magic Christian by Terry Southern

69) A Death In The Family by James Agee

70) The War Lover by John Hersey

71) Don’t Call Me By My Right Name & Other Stories by James Purdy

72) Malcolm by James Purdy

ANTOLOGÍAS

73) The Portable Irish Reader (pub. Viking)

74) The Portable Poe – Edgar Allen Poe

75) The Portable Walt Whitman

76) This Week’s Short Stories (New York, 1953)

77) Bedside Book Of Famous Short Stories

78) Short Novels Of Colette

79) Short Story Masterpieces (New York, 1960)

80) The Passionate Playgoer by George Oppenheimer

81) Fancies And Goodnights by John Collier

82) Evergreen Review, Vol 2, No. 6

83) 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 Skira

86) Max by Giovannetti Pericle

87) The Family Of Man by Carl Sandburg

88-90) Horizon, A Magazine Of The Arts (Nov 1959, Jan 1960, Mar 1960.)

91) Jean Dubuffet by Daniel Cordier

BIOGRAFÍAS

92) The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham

93) Close To Colette by Maurice Goudeket

94) This Demi-Paradise by Margaret Halsey

95) 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 DeMille

98) Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It by Mae West

99) Act One by Moss Hart

CIENCIA CRISTIANA

100) Science And Health With Key To The Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

101) Poems, Including Christ And Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy

OBRAS CLÁSICAS

102) 2 Plays: Peace And Lysistrata by Aristophanes

103) Of The Nature Of Things by Lucretius

104) La Filosofía de Platón

105) Mitología de Edith Hamilton

106) Theory Of Poetry And Fine Art by Aristotle

107) Metafísica de Aristotle

108-111) Plutarch’s Lives, Vols 3-6 only (of 6) by William and John Langhorne

NARRATIVA CULTURAL

112) Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie

113) The Support Of The Mysteries by Paul Breslow

114) Paris Blues by Harold Flender

115) The Shook-Up Generation by Harrison E. Salisbury

TEXTOS Y TRADUCCIONES EN IDIOMAS EXTRANJEROS

116) An Mands Ansigt by Arthur Miller

117) Independent People by Halldor Laxness

118) Mujer by Lina Rolan (inscribed to MM by author)

119) The Havamal, ed. D.E. Martin Clarke

120) Yuan Mei: 18th Century Chinese Poet by Arthur Waley

121) Almanach: Das 73 Jahr by S. Fischer Verlag

LITERATURA FRANCESA

122) Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert

123) The Works Of Rabelais

124) The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

125) Cities Of The Plain by Marcel Proust

126) Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

127) The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust

128) The Captive by Marcel Proust

129) Nana de Emile Zola

130) Plays by Moliere

FREUD

131) The Life And Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones

132) Letters Of Sigmund Freud, ed. Ernest L. Freud

133) Glory Reflected by Martin Freud

134) Moses And Monotheism by Sigmund Freud

135) 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 Dustan

139) Outpost Nurseries – publicity brochure

140) El bosque y el mar de Marston Bates

141) Pet Turtles by Julien Bronson

142) A Book About Bees by Edwin Way Teale

143) Codfish, Cats & Civilisation by Gary Webster

HUMOR

144) How To Do It, Or, The Art Of Lively Entertaining by Elsa Maxwell

145) Wake Up, Stupid by Mark Harris

146) Merry Christmas, Happy New Year by Phyllis McGinley

147) The Hero Maker by Akbar Del Piombo & Norman Rubington

148) How To Talk At Gin by Ernie Kovacs

149) VIP Tosses A Party, by Virgil Partch

150) Who Blowed Up The House & Other Ozark Folk Tales, ed. Randolph Vance

151) Snobs by Russell Lynes

LITERATURA JUDAICA 

152) The Form of Daily Prayers

153) Sephath Emeth (Speech Of Truth): Order Of Prayers For The Wholes Year In Jewish and English

154) Las Santas Escrituras según el texto Masotérico (inscribed to MM by Paula Strasberg, July 1, 1956)

LITERATURA

155) La Ley de Roger Vailland

156) The Building by Peter Martin

157) Las sirenas de Boros

158) They Came To Cordura by Glendon Swarthout

159) The 7th Cross by Anna Seghers

160) A European Education by Romain Gary

161) Strike For A Kingdom by Menna Gallie

162) The Slide Area by Gavin Lambert

163) La mujer pobre de Leon Bloy

164) Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson

165) The Contenders by John Wain

166) 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 Montsarrat

168) Oh Careless Love by Maurice Zolotow (MM biographer)

169) Add A Dash Of Pity by Peter Ustinov

170) Una tragedia americana de Theodore Dreiser (filmed as A Place In The Sun)

171) La marca del guerrero de Paul Scott

172) The Dancing Bear by Edzard Schaper

173) 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’Neill

177) Fowlers End by Gerald Kersh

178) Hurricane Season by Ralph Winnett

179) 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. West

181) On Such A Night by Anthony Quayle

182) Say You Never Saw Me by Arthur Nesbitt

LITERATURA, CTD.

183) All The Naked Heroes by Alan Kapener

184) Jeremy Todd by Hamilton Maule

185) Miss America de Daniel Stren

186) Fiebre en la sangre de William Pearson

187) Espartaco de Howard Fast

188) Venetian Red by L.M. Pasinetti

189) A Cup Of Tea For Mr Thorgill by Storm Jameson

190) 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 Burns

193) The Mountain Road by Theodore H. White

194) Three Circles Of Light by Pietro Di Donato

195) The Day The Money Stopped by Brendan Gill

196) 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 Durrell

200) Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

201) El agente secreto de Joseph Conrad

202) The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

203) 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 Faulkner

206) La parcela de Dios de Erskine Caldwell

207) 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 Edman

209) La Filosofía de Spinoza de Joseph Ratner 

210) Los Dublineses de James Joyce

211) Selección de Poemas de Emily Dickinson

212) The Collected Short Stories by Dorothy Parker (Friend of Marilyn’s, lived nearby her Doheny Drive apartment in 1961)

213) Trabajos Selectos de Alexander Pope

214) Rojo y negro de Stendhal

215) 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 Ludwig

219) Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert (una segunda copia)

220) The Poems And Fairy-Tales by Oscar Wilde

221) Alicia en el País de las Maravillas/Alicia a través del espejo/La caza de Snark, deLewis Carroll

222) Huracán en Jamaica de Richard Hughes

223) An Anthology Of American Negro Literature, ed. Sylvestre C. Watkins

MÚSICA

224) Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan

225) Music For The Millions by David Ewen

226) Schubert by Ralph Bates

227) Men Of Music by Wallace Brockaway and Herbert Weinstock

OBRAS DE TEATRO

228) The Potting Shed by Graham Greene

229) Politics In The American Drama by Caspar Nannes

230) Sons Of Men by Herschel Steinhardt

231) Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin (MM auditioned for the movie, but Judy Holliday got the part)

232) Untitled & Other Radio Drams by Norman Corwin

233) Thirteen By Corwin, by Norman Corwin

234) More By Corwin, by Norman Corwin

235) Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill (a second copy)

236) Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951

237) Theatre ’52 by John Chapman

238) 16 Famous European Plays, by Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell

239) The Complete Plays Of Henry James

240) 20 Best Plays Of The Modern American Theatre, by John Glassner

241) Elizabethan Plays by Hazelton Spencer

242) Critics’ Choice by Jack Gaver

243) Modern American Dramas by Harlan Hatcher

244) The Album Of The Cambridge Garrick Club

POESÍA 

245) A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Houseman

246) The Poetry & Prose Of Heinrich Heine by Frederich Ewen

247) The Poetical works Of John Milton, by H.C. Beeching

248) The Poetical Works Of Robert Browning (H.C. Beeching?)

249) Wordsworth by Richard Wilbur

250) The Poetical Works Of Shelley (Richard Wilbur?)

251) The Portable Blake, by William Blake

252) William Shakespeare: Sonnets, ed. Mary Jane Gorton

253) Poems Of Robert Burns, ed. Henry Meikle & William Beattie

254) The Penguin Book Of English Verse, ed. John Hayward

255) Aragon: Poet Of The French Resistance, by Hannah Josephson & Malcolm Cowley

256) Star Crossed by Margaret Tilden

POESÍA 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 Marquis

262) The Pocketbook Of Modern Verse by Oscar Williams

263) Poems by John Tagliabue

264) Selected Poems by Rafael Alberti

265) Selected Poetry by Robinson Jeffers

266) The American Puritans: Their Prose & Poetry, by Perry Miller

267) Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

268) Poet In New York by Federico Garcia Lorca

269) 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 Year

271) 100 Modern Poems, ed. Selden Rodman

272) The Sweeniad, by Myra Buttle

273) Poetry: A Magazine Of Verse, Vol.70, no. 6

POLÍTICA

274) The Wall Between by Anne Braden

275) The Roots Of American Communism by Theodore Draper

276) A View Of The Nation – An Anthology : 1955-1959, ed. Henry Christian

277) A Socialist’s Faith by Norman Thomas

278-279) Rededication To Freedom by Benjamin Ginzburg (2 copies)

280) The Ignorant Armies by E.M. Halliday

281) Commonwealth Vs Sacco & Vanzetti, by Robert P. Weeks

282) Journey To The Beginning by Edgar Snow

283) Das Kapital by Karl Marx

284) Lidice by Eleanor Wheeler

285) The Study Of History by Arnold Toynbee

286) America The Invincible by Emmet John Hughes

287) The Unfinished Country by Max Lerner

288) Red Mirage by John O’Kearney

289) Background & Foreground – The New York Times Magazine: An Anthology, ed. Lester Markel (a friend of MM)

290) The Failure Of Success by Esther Milner

291) A Piece Of My Mind by Edmund Wilson

292) The Truth About The Munich Crisis by Viscount Maugham

293) The Alienation Of Modern Man by Fritz Pappenheim

294) A Train Of Powder by Rebecca West

295) Report From Palermo by Danilo Dolci

296) The Devil In Massachusetts by Marion Starkey

297) American Rights: The Constitution In Action, by Walter Gellhorn

298) Night by Francis Pollini

299) The Right Of The People by William Douglas

300) The Jury Is Still Out by Irwin Davidson and Richard Gehman

301) First Degree by William Kunstler

302) Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville

303) World Underworld by Andrew Varna

ORACIÓN

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 Collier

308) 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. Ehmann

311) 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.)

PSICOLOGÍA

313) Man Against Himself by Karl A. Menninger

314) The Tower And The Abyss by Erich Kahler

315) Something To Live By, by Dorothea S. Kopplin

316) Man’s Supreme Inheritance by Alexander F. Matthias

317) The Miracles Of Your Mind by Joseph Murphy

318) The Wisdom Of The Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

319) A Prison, A Paradise by Loran Hurnscot

320) The Magic Of Believing by Claude M. Bristol

321) Peace Of Mind by Joshua Loth Liebman

322) The Use Of The Self by Alexander F. Matthias

323) The Power Within You by Claude M. Bristol

324) The Call Girl by Harold Greenwald

325) Troubled Women by Lucy Freeman (who later wrote Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe)

326) Relax And Live by Joseph A. Kennedy

327) Forever Young, Forever Healthy by Indra Devi

328) The Open Self by Charles Morris

329) Hypnotism Today by Leslie Lecron & Jean Bordeaux

330) The Masks Of God: Primitive Mythology, by Joseph Campbell

331) Some Characteristics Of Today by Rudolph Steiner

LIBROS DE REFERENCIA

332) Baby & Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (pub. 1958)

333) Flower Arranging For Fun by Hazel Peckinpaugh Dunlop

334) Hugo’s Pocket Dictionary: French-English And English-French

335) Spoken French For Travellers And Tourists, by Charles Kany & Mathurin Dondo

336) Roget’s Pocket Thesaurus, by C.O. Mawson & K.A. Whiting

RELIGIÓN

337) What Is A Jew? by Morris Kertzer

338) A Partisan Guide To The Jewish Problem, by Milton Steinberg

339) The Tales Of Rabbi Nachman, by Martin Buber

340) The Saviours Of God: Spiritual Exercises, by Nikos Kazantzakis

341) The Prophet by Kahlil Gilbran (4th copy?)

342) The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows

343) The Secret Books Of The Egyptian Gnostics, by Jean Doresse

344) Jesus by Kahlil Gilbran

345) Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy

346) Why I Am Not A Christian, by Bertrand Russell

LITERATURA RUSA

347) Redemption & Other Plays by Leo Tolstoy

348) The Viking Library Portable Anton Chekhov

349) The House Of The Dead, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

350) Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

351) Best Russian Stories: An Anthology, ed. Thomas Seltzer

352) The Plays Of Anton Chekhov

353) Smoke by Ivan Turgenev

354) The Poems, Prose & Plays Of Alexander Pushkin

355) 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 CIENTÍFICOS

356) Our Knowledge Of The External World, by Bertrand Russell

357) Common Sense And Nuclear Warfare, by Bertrand Russell

358) Out Of My Later Years by Albert Einstein

359) Men And Atoms by William Laurence

360) Man Alive by Daniel Colin Munro (inscribed to Renna Campbell from Lorraine?)

361) Doctor Pygmalion by Maxwell Maltz

362) Panorama: A New Review, ed. R.F. Tannenbaum

363) Everyman’s Search by Rebecca Beard

364) Of Stars And Men by Harlow Shapley

365) From Hiroshima To The Moon, by Daniel Lang

366) The Open Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer

367) Sexual Impotence In The Male, by Leonard Paul Wershub

GUIONES Y LECTURAS

368) Medea by Jeffers Robinson

369) Antigone by Jean Anouilh

370) Bell, Book And Candle by John Van Druten

371) The Women by Clare Boothe

372) Jean Of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson

VIAJES

373) The Sawbwa And His Secretary by C.Y. Lee

374) The Twain Shall Meet by Christopher Rand

375) Kingdom Of The Rocks by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

376) The Heart Of India by Alexander Campbell

377) Man-Eaters Of India by Jim Corbett

378) Jungle Lore by Jim Corbett

379) My India by Jim Corbett

380) A Time In Rome by Elizabeth Bowen

381) London by Jacques Boussard

382) New York State Vacationlands

383) Russian Journey by William O. Douglas

384) The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer

AUTORAS FEMENÍNAS

385) The Portable Dorothy Parker

386) My Antonia by Willa Cather

387) Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather

388) 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 Paley

Libros Extra

391) The Autobiography Of Lincoln Steffens (read during The Fireball)

392-403) Carl Sandburg’s 12-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln

404) 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 Cary

407) The Thinking Body by Mabel Elsworth Todd

408) The Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky

409) The Bible

410) The Biography Of Eleanora Duse, by William Weaver

411) De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Study Of Human Bone Structure) by Andreas Vesalius

412) Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

413) Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs A, by Richard Aldrich

414) Goodnight Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler

415) Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton

416) How Stanislavsky Directs by Mikhail Gorchakov

417) 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 Freud

421) The Rains Came by Louis Broomfield

422) The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine (read during Some Like It Hot)

423) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

424) 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 Rosten

427) 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 Stone

429) 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 Miller

432) Poetry by e.e.cummings (Arthur bought Marilyn a copy when they first met in 1951)

433) Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman

434) 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 Tolstoy

437) 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)