Further information of the objects currently on display may
be found in the following quaint and curious volumes, many
of which may be obtainable in a good library or bookstore:

Hans Christian Andersen, "The Emperor's New Clothes"
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel," "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Emily Dickinson, Poems
E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Robert Frost, "Design"
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, She
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Devil in Manuscript," "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,"
       "Young Goodman Brown," The House of the Seven Gables
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"
Montague Rhodes James, "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas"
J. S. Le Fanu, "Green Tea"
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Haunter in the Dark" (and other stories)
Arthur Machen, "The Novel of the White Powder"
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island
Bram Stoker, Dracula
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
T. H. White, The Once and Future King

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