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Shi Naian. The Water Margin, translated by J. H. Jackson. Tuttle Publishing, 2010, forward.

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 1.

Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

Twain, Mark. Letters from the Earth." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004, letter 3.

Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

Browning, Robert. "The Last Ride Together." Robert Browning's Poetry, edited by James F. Loucks and Andrew M. Stauffer. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, st. 2.

Ibsen, Henrik. "The Wild Duck." An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm, translated by James McFarlane. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3.

Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part II." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Wordsworth, William. "Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800/1802)." Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems. Wordsworth Editions, 2002.

Marquis de Sade. "Philosophy in the Bedroom." Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings. Grove Press, 1990, dialogue 5.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 6.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Rivals. Dover Publications, 1998, act 2, sc. 1.