Rudin on Faust: “What sweet moments Natalya passed when at times in the garden on the seat, in the transparent shade of the aspen tree, Rudin began to read Goethe's Faust, Hoffman, or Bettina's letters, or Novalis, constantly stopping and explaining what seemed obscure to her. Like almost all Russian”
Fathers and Sons on The Gypsies: “as I was reading Pushkin (I think it was 'The Gipsies' that I had lighted upon), there suddenly entered the room Arkady.”
Fathers and Sons on The Streltsy: “Paul Petrovitch took up a greasy, dog's-eared volume of Masalsky's _The Strielitsi_, and turned over a few of its pages.”
Fathers and Sons on Notions Generales de Chimie: “You had better read through _Notions Générales de Chimie_, by Pelouse and Frémy. It is an excellent work, and clearly written--the very thing you want.”
A Sportsman's Sketches on Robinson Crusoe: “saw an old man so infirm that he reminded me at once of the dying goat Robinson Crusoe found in some cave on his island.”