Nostromo on King John: Epigraph: “So foul a sky clears not without a storm.” --SHAKESPEARE
Under Western Eyes on The Social Contract: “These glances were needless; the people crossing over in the distance seemed unwilling even to look at the islet where the exiled effigy of the author of the _Social Contract_ sat enthroned above the bowed head of Razumov in the sombre immobility of bronze.”
Under Western Eyes on Corinne: “And Madame de S-- was very far from resembling the gifted author of _Corinne_.”
When the Sleeper Wakes on Heart of Darkness: “‘The Heart of Darkness,’ he had never heard of before nor ‘The Madonna of the Future’--no doubt if they were indeed stories, they were by post Victorian authors.”
The White Album on Heart of Darkness: “I remember my real joy at discovering for the first time how language worked, at discovering, for example, that the central line of Heart of Darkness was a postscript.”
The Time Traveler's Wife on Heart of Darkness: “I'm hanging out in the club Library, eating canapés and reading a sumptuously bound and probably never opened first edition of Heart of Darkness.”