Babel on Colonel Jack: “the wet, crumpled fingerprints he left on a new edition of Defoe's Colonel Jack shamed him enough to make him give up the practice”
Babel on Frankenstein: “He greatly enjoyed Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”
Babel on The Pickwick Papers: “He stumbled on a series called The Pickwick Papers by someone named Charles Dickens”
Babel on Oliver Twist: “He'd bought Robin the three-volume set of Oliver Twist; also chapter epigraph (epigraph)”
Babel on Great Expectations: “CHARLES DICKENS, Great Expectations (chapter epigraph) (epigraph)”
Babel on Gulliver's Travels: “They landed on a familiar volume on the shelf above Professor Lovell's head – Gulliver's Travels”
Babel on The Rape of the Lock: “for a full year Robin thought The Rape of the Lock was about fornication with an iron bolt instead of the theft of hair”
Babel on Iliad: “You take things too far, and you get something like Pope's translation of the Iliad”