Life: A User's Manual on The Mysterious Island: “a chest carved with designs illustrating the principal scenes of The Mysterious Island: the landing of the balloon... the miraculous finding of Cyrus Smith”
Life: A User's Manual on Silbermann: “The first book he read was a novel, Silbermann, by Jacques de Lacretelle, which had won the Prix Fémine the previous autumn”
Life: A User's Manual on Kubla Khan: “a critical edition with facing-page translation of Coleridge's Kubla Khan: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree”
Life: A User's Manual on The Lusiads: “not with the help of Camoëns's Lusiades through which Paganel thought he was learning Spanish”
Life: A User's Manual on Bibliotheca Lusitana: “the fourth and last volume of Diego Barbosa-Machado's Bibliotheca Lusitana, which he'd found... on the penny shelf of a Lugano bookshop”