Selected Readings
from the Hall Library

James Norman Hall was a prolific reader.  His personal library containing over 3,000 books is one of the largest personal libraries in any language in French Polynesia, and was one of his prized possessions.  Bookshelves line every wall of  his office and the family dining room. His precious volumes of literature kept him connected with the rest of the world and provided a documentary base for his historical writings.  The books were lovingly selected and cared for, and span seven generations of authors.  They include poetry, history and the classics as well as the works ofhis contemporaries and numerous studies on the Pacific  Islands.

A sample from the office library  includes:

• The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
• Waverley Novels by Ivanhoe
• A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
• From Sea to Sea by Rudyard Kipling
• The Virginians by William Makepiece
• The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
• For 2 Plain by Harry Golden
• Our Old Home  by  Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Septimius Felton by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Final Diagnosis by Arthur Halley
• The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Spectator by Joseph  Addison Steele
• Mr Punch in War-time/arrangement with the proprietors of Punch
• History of Modern England by Charles L. Graves
• New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Fireside Book of Flying Stories by Paul Jensen
• The Man That Corrupted Hadley Burg and Other Stories and Essays by Mark Twain
• Mahomet and His Successors by Washington Irving
• Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by John H. Ingram
• Colombus by Irving Works
• The Book of Pukapuka by Robert Dean Frisbie
• The Crack  in the column by George Weller
• Seeds of Treason by Ralph de Toledamo and Victor Lasky
• Men at War by Ernest Hemingway
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
• The Letters of Alexander Woolcott by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessy
• Now I Tell You by O.C. Huiliett
• Mister Roberts by Thomas Hegger
• Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
• A Hawaiian Valley by Kathleen Dickenson Mellen
• Boston Landmarks by M.A. de Wolfe Howe
• The Whole of Their Lives by Benjamin Gitlow
• Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
• John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen
• The Age  of Indiscretion by Clyde Brion Davis
• The Tourist in Spain Andalusia by Thomas Roscoe
• Five Hundred Days in Rebel Prisons by Charles Fosdiek
• Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
• South Sea Idyls by Charles Warren Stoddard
• Silver Poets of the 16th Century by Gerard Bullet
• The Portable Medieval Reader by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin Mc Caughlin
• Loss of the Dreams
• The Portable Voltaire by Ben Ray Redman
• This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell
• Valhalla by Jere Peacock
• Your Old Battalion by H.W. Pryce
• The Tourist in Spain by Thomas Roscoe
• The Heart of Hawthornes Journals by Newton Arvin
• Nineteen Million Elephants and Other Poems by Hellen Bevington
• Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
• Family Reunion by Ogden Nash
• Proust:  Portrait of a Genius by Andre Maurois
• Charles Lamb and His Hertfordshire by Reginald Hine
• Companion in Exile by F. Molnar
• The Law of the Sea by William McFee
• The New Yorker Book of Verse
• Stephen Foster by John Tasker Howard
• Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot
• Internationalism and Democracy by Charles E. Payne
• Berlioz and the Romantic  Century by Jacques Barzun
• Standard Atlas of the World by Rand McNally
• Sailing to Sea by Captain and Mrs Irwing  Johnson
• Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
• Coral Reef of Tahiti and Moorea and Rarotonga by Cyril Crossland
• The Coral Reef Zone During and After the Glacial Period by Reginal Dahl
• Polynesians, Explorers of the Pacific by J.C.  Weckler
• Autobiography by Mark Twain
• Journal of the Polynesian  Society by J. Frankstimson
• Extinguished and Resurgent Coral Reefs - The Origin of Certain Fiji Atolls by W.M. Davis
• Ka Hana Kapa by Williiam T.  Brigham
• Focsiledays by Antonotto Fisher
• Marquesan Somatology With Comparative Notes on Samoa and Tonga by Louis R. Sullivan
• Index to the Islands of the Pacific.
• Fornandez Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities.
• The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett
• The Log of a Sea-waif by Frank T. Bullen
• We the Living by Ayn Rand
• Black Majesty by John W. Vandercook
• Letters to a Young Poet by  Herter Norton
• The Writer's Market by Aron M. Mathieu
• Merchant of Alphabets by Reginald Orcutt
• Maori Lord by James Izett
• Knock About Club in the Woods by C.A. Stephens
• Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous by T. Babington Macaullay
• Behold the Mountains by Frank S. Smythe
• Live for Lydia by H. E. Bates
• Maida's Little School by Inez Haynes Irwin
• A Littlemaid of Massachussetts Colony by Turner Curtis
• The 21st Quarter by Philip Graves
• Primer of the Novel by V. McHugh
• Vasco by Marc Chadourne
• Burmese Days by George Orwell
• Young Man with a Horn by Baker
• The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann
• Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith by Robert Gathorne Hardy
• The Spell of the Pacific by Carl Stroven and A. Grove
• 100 Modern Poems
• Vanished Fleets by A.J. Villiers
• The French in the West Indies by Roberts
• Andersonville by John McElroy
• The Kon Tiki Expedition
• Tales from Uncle Remus by Joel Chander Harris
• Yankee's Wander the World by Irving and E. Johnson
• They All Had Glamour by Edward: D. Marks
• Grammaire de la langue des Marquises
• Purchase His Pilgrim
• Gibson's Rome
• London and Its Celebrities by J. Heneage Jess
• The Works of Ralph Waldo  Emerson
• History of the Criminal Law of England
• Home's Works
• Reminiscence by  Raphael Pumpellex
• History of Crime in England by L. Oven Pike
• Civilisation in the USA
• The Creative Life by  Ludwig Lewishon
• John Keats by Colvin
• Raffles - R. Coupland
• Dictionary of National Biography
• A Centuryof Anecdotes by Timbs
• The Smugglers by Lord Teighmaeth and Charles G. Harper
• The Saga of "Cumba" by Richard Maury
• History of English Literature
• Working Man's Companions
• A Selectionfrom Cowper's Letters by E.V. Lucas
• Dictionary of National Biography
• Paul Gauguin by Wilhem Barter
• Tahiti Landfall by William Stone
• Loquacities by Charles Macomb Flandran
• IntoBattles - Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill
• A CursoryHistory  of Swearing by Julian Sharman
• The Coral Tower by Stone
• The Pearl Lagoon by  Nordhoff
• That Devil Wilkes by R. W. Postgate
• Folkways by William Graham Summer
• Causeries du Lundi by Trechamm
• Kinglakes Eothen edited by D.G. Hogarth -V.H. Collins
• The Log of the Snark by  Charman Kittredge London - 1916
• A Studentin Arms with an introduction by J. St. Loestrachey
• Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches by Thomas Carlyle -Vol.1
• Castles in the Sand by William  Stone
• Throbbing in Hemshaw - Ward
• The Book of Puka-Puka by Robert Dean Frisbie
• Savage Africa by Windwood Reade
• Attack on Everest by Ruttledge Hugh
• First over Everest
• The Island of Desire by Robert Dean Frisbie
• Mr. Moonlight's Island by R.D. Frisbie
• Samuel Johnson by Alice Meinell and G.K. Chesterton
• A Tale of Tahiti by Frank Clune
• Amaru by R.D. Frisbie
• Gauguin a Tahiti et aux iles Marquises par Bengt Danielson
• Many Lagoons by Ralph Varady
• Tahiti by Barbaby Conrad
• William Ernest Henley by L. Cope Cornford
• Literary Studies by Walter Bagehot - VOL. II
• Letters from the Lady Mary Worthley Montagu by Brimley Johnson
• Smollettes Travels through France and Italy
• My Tahiti by R.D. Frisbie
• Tahiti Voyage Through Paradise by George T. Eggleston
• The Smugglers by Lord Teighmouth and Charles G. Harper-Vol. I
• Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World by Henry R. Wagner
• Chambers' Book of Days
• Lives ofthe Most Remarkable Criminals, edited by Arthur Hayward
• Charles Hindley, ESQ - Vol. II  - 1874
• A Classical Dictionary
• The Prolongation of Life by Elie Metchnikoff
• Baruch - My Own Story by Baruch M. Bernard
• Astrophel by Alfred H. Bill
• Alice Meynell - A Memoir by Viola Meynell
• Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka by Florence Frisbie edited and translated by herfather R.D. Frisbie
• Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold by Horace Bleackley
• Potomac Landing by Wustach
• Algeron, Charles Swinburne
• Montaigne essays and letters
• Amaru by R. Dean Frisbie
• De Profundis by Oscal Wilde
• Santa Barbara - Past and Present by Walker A. Tompkins
• Rascals in Paradise by James Michener
• The Epic of Captain Scott by Lindsay
• By Nordhoff and Hall by James McConnaughey
• The Royal Box by Frances Parkinson Keyes
• British Battles on Land and Sea by James Grant
• London edited by Charles Knight
• London Labour and London Poor - Mayhew
• Dictionary of National Biography

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AnAll-Time Favorite: The Mutiny On the Bounty