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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 5.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

P.D. James

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James, P. D. Quoted in Face Magazine. Dec. 1986.

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Hardy, Thomas. "A Pair of Blue Eyes." Tinsley's Magazine, Sept. 1872 - July 1873.

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Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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Hardy, Thomas. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." The Graphic, July–Dec. 1891.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Hugging the Shore

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Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, foreword.

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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

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Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, ch. 10.

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Mailer, Norman. "She Thought the Russians Was Coming." Esquire, 1 June 1960.

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Wharton, Edith. "A First Word." A Backward Glance. D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.

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Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: Andrew Millar, 1749, bk. 15, ch. 1.

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Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, edited by Alice Wakely. Penguin Classics, 2005.

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Herbert, Frank. Dune. Chilton Books, 1965. Originally published in Analog Magazine, Dec. 1963 - Feb. 1964.

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

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Dickens, Charles. "A Tale of Two Cities." London: Chapman & Hall. April-Nov. 1859. Weekly serial.

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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 2, ch. 13.

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Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, 1866, monthly serial.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 19.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 19.

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Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 1.

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Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 1.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 23.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 23.