Novelist
Maugham. William Somerset. The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands. George H. Doran Company, 1921.
Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 3, ch. 1, sec. 1.
Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 39.
Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 39.
Quoted in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. 7, London: Becket & DeHondt, 1765, ch. 2.
Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2.
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 21.
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 14.
Flaubert, Gustave. L'Education sentimentale [Sentimental Education]. Paris: Michel Levy, 1869, pt. 3, ch. 3.
Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education, translated by Patrick Coleman and Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2016, pt. 3, ch. 3.
Stendhal. De L'Amour [On Love]. Paris: Pierre Mongie, 1822, ch. 56.
Stendhal. Love, translated by Gilbert Sale and Suzanne Sale. Penguin Classics, 1975, ch. 56.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.
On the books she was planning to read.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Letter to George Smith. 4 Aug. 1859.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Mandolin, 1997.
Buck, Pearl S. My Several Worlds. John Day Company, 1954.
Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. W. Collins Sons & Co./Boni and Liveright, 1926, ch. 13.
Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. Virago, 2018, ch. 13.
Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 5.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
James, Henry. "The Portrait of a Lady." The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine, 1880–81.
James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady, edited by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Faulkner, William. Light in August. Smith & Haas, 1932, ch. 13.
Faulkner, William. Light in August, edited by Melanie Taylor. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, ch. 13.
Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.
Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.