Scott Fitzgeraldĥ7) A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (Thomas Wolfe?)ĥ8) Thomas Wolfe's Letters To His Mother, ed.

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)Ĥ3) Selected Plays Of George Bernard ShawĤ4) Ellen Terry And Bernard Shaw - A CorrespondenceĤ5) Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell - Their CorrespondenceĤ6) The Short Reigh Of Pippin IV by John SteinbeckĤ7) Once There Was A War by John SteinbeckĤ8) Set This House On Fire by William StyronĤ9) Lie Down In Darkness (William Styron?)ĥ0) The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone by Tennessee Williamsĥ2) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (with notes by MM)ĥ3) The Flower In Drama And Glamour by Stark Young (inscribed to MM by Lee Strasberg, Christmas 1955)ĥ4) Tender Is The Night by F.

They won't wound you.īelow, a list of books owned by Marilyn Monroe, auctioned at Christies-NY, October 28-29, 1999, in individual lots or grouped:ġ) Let's Make Love by Matthew Andrews (novelisation of the movie)Ģ) How To Travel Incognito by Ludwig Bemelmansģ) To The One I Love Best by Ludwig Bemelmansĩ) The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt-Farmerġ0) The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgeraldġ5) 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!)ġ6) The Last Temptation Of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakisġ9 and 20) Sons And Lovers by DH Lawrence (2 editions)Ģ3) DH Lawrence: A Basic Study Of His Ideas by Mary FreemanĢ6) Death In Venice & Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mannģ9) Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'NeillĤ0) Part Of A Long Story: Eugene O'Neill As A Young Man In Love by Agnes BoultonĤ1) The Little Engine That Could by Piper Watty (with childish pencil scrawls at end, possibly MM's)Ĥ2) The New Joy Of Cooking by Irma S.

I suspect that she was never more content than when in the company of books. And as we readers know, the world is never better than when sitting down, comfortably in a robe, lost in a good book. An emotionally fragile woman, it is in photographs like the above that Monroe's intelligence shines through her eyes.

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