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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary." Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers. Mariner Books, 2002.

Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 1.

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 15.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2.

Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. "The Country of the Pointed Firs." The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories. Signet, 2009, ch. 15.

Barrie, James M. Peter Pan. Reader's Library Classics, 2022, ch. 8.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 20.

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 20.

Hardy, Thomas. The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy: with an Appendix Including the Unpublished Passages in the Original Typescripts of the Life of Thomas Hardy. Columbia University Press, 1979.

James, Henry. "The Art of Fiction." The Portable Henry James. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 2.