Shogun on Romeo and Juliet: “"I took my wife to Romeo and Juliet and she liked it very much." He explained the plots to her.”
Shogun on The Taming of the Shrew: “Perhaps we'd see The Taming of the Shrew or A Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet.”
Shogun on A Midsummer Night's Dream: “Perhaps we'd see The Taming of the Shrew or A Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet.”
Gai-Jin on On the Origin of Species: “The only good in the mail were the books from Hatchard's in Piccadilly: a new illustrated edition of Darwin's explosive On the Origin of Species...”
Gai-Jin on The Communist Manifesto: “...a newly translated pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels called The Communist Manifesto...”
Gai-Jin on Oliver Twist: “...lost in admiration of the man and his marvelous range of stories, from Oliver Twist more than twenty years ago, through Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and a dozen others to the riveting Tale of Two Cities.”
Gai-Jin on Nicholas Nickleby: “Same passage as Oliver Twist, above — genuine narrative discussion of Dickens's real body of work.”
Gai-Jin on Great Expectations: “This was the weekly started by Charles Dickens, and contained the fourteenth installment of Great Expectations—to be published in twenty parts.”