Green, Henry: Living. London, Hogarth Press, 1929. St Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly, 1971. UK pb Picador; US pb Penguin.
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies. London, Faber & Faber, 1954. New York, Coward-McCann, 1955. UK pb Faber; US pb Putnam Perigee.
Greene, Graham: A Burnt-out Case. London, Heinemann, 1961. New York, Viking, 1961. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Gissing, George: New Grub Street. 1891. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
The Heart of the Matter. London, Heinemann, 1948. New York, Viking, 1948. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Frayn, Michael: The Trick of It. London, Viking, 1989. New York, Viking, 1990. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Hardy, Thomas: A Pair of Blue Eyes. 1873. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant's Woman. London, Cape, 1969. Boston, Little Brwon, 1969. UK pb Pan; US pb NAL/Dutton.
Heller, Joseph: Good As Gold. London, Cape, 1979. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979. US pb Dell.
Forster, E. M.: Howards End. London, Arnold, 1910. New York, Putnam, 1911. UK pb Penguin; US pb Bantam.
Hemingway, Ernest. "In Another Country" in Men Without Women. London, cape, 1928. New York, Scribner's, 1927. UK pb Panther; US pb Macmillan.
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier. 1915. UK pb Penguin; US pb Random House.
Isherwood, Christopher: Goodbye to Berlin. London, Hogarth Press, 1939. New York, Random House, 1939. UK pb Mandarin; US pb New Directions(in The Berlin Stories).
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night. London, Chatto & Windus, 1934. New York, Scribner's, 1934. UK pb Penguin; US pb Macmillan.
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day. London, Faber & Faber, 1989. New York, Knopf, 1989. UK pb Faber; US pb Vintage.
Tom Jones. 1749. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
James, Henry: The Ambassadors. 1903. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews. 1742. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
What Maisie Knew. 1897. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Middlemarch. 1871—2. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London, Egoist, 1916. New York, Huebsch, 1916. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Eliot, George: Adam Bede. 1859. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
"Eveline", in Dubliners. London, Grant Richards, 1914. New York, Modern Library, 1926. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Drabble, Margaret: The Realms of Gold. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. New York, Knopf, 1975. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Ulysses. [Paris, Shakespeare & Co, 1922]London, Bodley Head, 1937. New York, Random House, 1934. UK pb Penguin; US pb Random House.
Oliver Twist. 1837—8. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Kipling, Rudyard: "Mrs Bathurst", in Traffics and Discoveries. 1904. UK pb Penguin(Short Stories Vol I); US pb Penguin.
Hard Times. 1854. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, trans. Michael Henry Heim. London, Faber & Faber, 1982. New Yerk, knopf, 1980. UK pb Faber; US pb Penguin.
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House. 1853. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Lawrence, D. H.: Women in Love. London, Secker, 1921. New York, Seltzer, 1921. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Cooper, William: Scenes from Provincial Life. London, Cape, 1950. New York NAL/Dutton, 1984. UK pb Methuen; US pb Avon.
Lodge, David: Changing Places. London, Secker & Warburg, 1975. New York, Penguin Books, 1980. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
The Shadow-Line–A Confession. 1917. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
How Far Can You Go? London, Secker & Warburg, 1980. New York, Morrow, 1982(As Souls and Bodies). UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin(Souls and Bodies).
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness. 1902. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Nice Work. London, Secker & Warburg, 1988. New York, Viking, 1989. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Carrington, Leonora: The Hearing Trumpet. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. New York, St Martin's, 1976. UK pb Virago; US pb City Lights Books.
Small World. London, Secker & Warburg, 1984. New York, Macmillan, 1985. UK pb Penguin; US pb Warner.
Carlyle, Thomas: The French Revolution. 1837. UK pb Oxford World's Classics; US pb Oxford World's Classics.
Lyly, John: Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit. 1578. US pb Saifer.
Butler, Samuel: Erewhon. 1872. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Michaels, Leonard: I Would Have Saved Them If I Could. New York, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1975. US pb(forthcoming, 1993)Mercury.
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange. London, Heinemann, 1962. New York, Norton, 1963. UK pb Penguin; US pb Ballantine.
Moore, Lorrie: "How To Be an Other Woman", in Self-Help. London, Faber, 1985. New York, Knopf, 1985. UK pb Faber; US pb Plume.
Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim's Progress. 1678. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita. [Paris, Olympia Press, 1955]London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959. New York, Putnam's, 1958. UK pb Penguin; US pb Random.
Brontë, Charlotte: Villette. 1854. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-four. London, Secker & Warburg, 1949. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1949. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Bradbury, Malcolm: The History Man. London, Secker & Warburg, 1975. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976. UK pb Vintage; US pb Penguin.
Poe, Edgar Allan: "William Wilson"1839(in Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine). UK pb Penguin(Complete Tales and Poems); US pb Penguin(Fall of the House of Usher & Other Writings).
Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives'Tale. 1908. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1951. Boston, Little Brown, 1951. UK pb Penguin; US pb Little Brown.
The Unnamable. [Paris, 1952, as L’Innommable]London, Calder, 1959. New York, Grove Press, 1958. UK pb Calder; US pb Grove Weidenfeld.
Scott, Sir Walter: The Heart of Midlothian. 1818. UK pb Oxford World's Classics; US pb Oxford World's Classics.
Beckett, Samuel: Murphy. London, Routledge, 1938. New york, Grove Press, 1938. UK pb Calder; US pb Grove Weidenfeld.
Smollett, Tobias: The Adventures of Roderick Random. 1748. UK pb Oxford World's Classics; US pb Oxford World's Classics.
Barthelme, Donald: "Will You Tell Me?" in Come Back, Dr Caligari, London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966. Boston, Little Brown, 1964. US pb Little Brown.
Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. London, Macmillan, 1961. New York, The New Yorker, 1961. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Barth, John: Lost in the Funhouse. London, Secker & Warburg, 1969. New York, Doubleday, 1968. US pb Anchor.
Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. 1759—67. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Auster, Paul: City of Glass. London, Faber & Faber, 1987(in The New York Trilogy). Los Angeles, Sun & Moon Press, 1985. UK pb Faber; US pb Penguin.
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair. 1848. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Northanger Abbey. 1818. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finn. 1884. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Austen, Jane: Emma. 1816. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Updike, John: Rabbit Run. London, Deutsch, 1961. New York, Knopf, 1960. UK pb Penguin; US pb Fawcett.
Amis, Martin: Money. London, Cape, 1984. New York, Viking, 1985. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five. London, Cape, 1970. New York, Delacorte, 1969. UK pb Vintage: US pb Dell.
The Folks that Live on the Hill. London, Hutchinson, 1990. New York, Summit, 1990. UK pb Penguin.
Waugh, Evelyn: A Handful of Dust. London, Chapman & Hall, 1934. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. UK pb Penguin: US pb Little Brown.
Amis, Kingsley: Lucky Jim. London, Gollancz, 1954. New York, Doubleday, 1954. UK pb Penguin; US pb Penguin.
Decline and Fall. London, Chapman & Hall, 1928. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. UK pb Penguin; US pb Little Brown.
Abish, Walter: Alphabetical Africa. New York, New Directions, 1974. US pb New Directions.
Weldon, Fay: Female Friends. London, Heinemann, 1975. New York, St Martin's, 1974. UK pb Picador; US pb Academy.
本参考书目表依照字母顺序，分别列出本书所有章节开头或正文中作为释例援引的作者、小说作品或短篇故事，并给出以下信息：（一）初版的年代；（二）当代文本在英国和美国初版的出版社及出版地点；（三）本书编辑时在英国和美国发行的平装本（缩略为pb）。
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway. London, Hogarth Press, 1925. New York, Harcourt, 1925. UK pb Oxford; US pb Harcourt Brace.