The Age of Innocence on Middlemarch: “That evening he unpacked his books from London… and a novel called "Middlemarch," as to which there had lately been interesting things said in the reviews.”
The Age of Innocence on The Marble Faun: “If you dined with the Lovell Mingotts you got canvas-back and terrapin and vintage wines; at Adeline Archer's you could talk about Alpine scenery and "The Marble Faun"; and luckily the Archer Madeira had gone round the Cape.”
The Age of Innocence on The Shaughraun: “The play was "The Shaughraun," with Dion Boucicault in the title role and Harry Montague and Ada Dyas as the lovers.”
The Age of Innocence on Chastelard: “He raised his head irritably when his sister Janey entered, and then quickly bent over his book (Swinburne's "Chastelard"--just out) as if he had not seen her.”
The Age of Innocence on The House of Life: “Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: "The House of Life."”
The Age of Innocence on Sonnets from the Portuguese: “All this kept her very busy, and she had not had time to do more than look at the little vellum book that Archer had sent her the week before (the "Sonnets from the Portuguese"); but she was learning by heart "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," because it was one of the first things…”
The Age of Innocence on The Culprit Fay: “Archer was always at pains to tell her children how much more agreeable and cultivated society had been when it included such figures as Washington Irving, Fitz-Greene Halleck and the poet of "The Culprit Fay."”
The Age of Innocence on Contes Drolatiques: “She glanced at the writing-table heaped with books, opened a volume of the "Contes Drolatiques," made a wry face over the archaic French, and sighed: "What learned things you read!"”