Skimmed through GoodReads' lists of books from the 1860s and 1870s. I haven't exactly decided the timeframe for Meres and Celestine, but figure that's not a bad guess. It's...a little insane how many of the top books on those lists I've read lol. (Thank you, Craftlit, for Woman in White!) The books were ones on the list that it struck me one of the two would be interested in. (There's an awful lot of Lousia May Alcott from that timeframe, but I'm not sure that would've been up their alley.)
This is the edition of Alice she's looking at. Not THE-the first edition, because apparently it was recalled. (I'm sure Meres could've snagged one if he really wanted, but it was recalled because the publisher didn't think it was good enough. Meres would want artistic quality over rarity-based-worth. Though either which way, I'm pretty sure he bought it for Celestine.)
I've no idea what the book in French is, but I strongly suspect the German is Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), just because. <3
Also, I did in fact consult a list of 1800s curse words, and "shit" is definitely one of them, though it was, not surprisingly, a much worse word than it is in our time.
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