What They Were Reading: Robert Frost

On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Robert Frost’s death, the Christian Science Monitor has dug up an old Top 10 list that he provided to the Massachusetts Library Association in 1934. Below are his ten all-time favorite books, and here is the article with relevant quotes and explanations:

1. The Odyssey, by Homer
2. Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
3. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
4. The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, by
5. The Oxford Book of Verse
6. Modern American and British Poetry
7. Last of the Mohicans, by James Fennimore Cooper
8. The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
9. The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
10. Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author Look-Alikes Vol. 8

Though they don’t share the same hairline, there’s something in the eyes and mouth that makes young Erich Maria Remarque look an awful lot like John Malkovich:

High foreheard, low eyebrows, and piercing eyes- Jules Verne was his generation's Russel Crowe - plus a couple months of beard growth:

He's portly, he's got a sly expression and lots of thick hair- you can almost picture Alexandre Dumas walking into his local basement-level watering hole to a merry chorus of “Norm!”:

James Fenimore Cooper kind of reminds me of the backstabbing friend from Ghost (Tony Goldwyn):

And E.M. Forster? The first person who comes to mind when I look at that dude is Macy’s smarmy in-house psychologist from “Miracle on 34th Street” (Porter Hall):

Kind of makes you want to rap him on the head with your cane, doesn't it?