If Captain Nemo had possessed a large enough library, it would be 20,000 Books under the Sea.
Dickens might have had The Old Curiosity Bookshop in which he could file the Pickwick Papers.
Thomas Hardy reveals many a public services librarians' dream in Far from the Madding Patrons and that of those who work in circulation through Return of the Borrowed.
Leo Tolstoy's War and Quiet deals with the ever ongoing campaign of shushing waged by librarians.
The Trial might describe the Kafkaesque experience of listening to a patron recount at excruciating and inscrutable length an assignment he/she doesn't understand whatsoever.
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