When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language (1.8)
- Louisa May Alcott (22.glean.79; 23.dehiscence.15; 33.gravid.12)
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (23.dehiscence.15)
- Jane Austen (22.glean.65-66, 79; 33.gravid.12)
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (9.wan.1; 22.glean.75)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion (22.glean.75)
- The Bible (11.UriahtheHittite,stinkpot,warthog.24-26)
- William Blake, Songs of Innocence (23.dehiscence.6)
- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (2.89, 5.misnomer.28)
- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (9.wan.1, 48)
- Emily Bronte (33.gravid.12)
- Willa Cather, April Twilight (33.gravid.12)
- Charles Dickens (22.glean.79; 33.gravid.47)
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (23.dehiscence.15)
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (2.89)
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (9.wan.48; 30.obstreperous.22-23)
- Emily Dickinson (22.glean.54; 33.gravid.1-12, 44-46)
- Emily Dickinson, "A Country Burial" (33.gravid.1-3, 6)
- John Donne (6.somniferous.11)
- Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (38.threnody.4)
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (3.abecedarian.39, 56, 61-65; 9.wan.10)
- George Eliot (22.glean.54)
- Johann Wolfgang van Goethe (22.glean.54)
- Thomas Hardy (23.dehiscence.6)
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (22.glean.84)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (9.wan.1; 12.UriahtheHittite,stinkpot,warthog.60)
- Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (33.gravid.12)
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (5.misnomer.7; 6.somniferous.1, 8, 11, 20; 12.UriahtheHittite,stinkpot,warthog.38; 48.luciferous.44)
- John Milton, (33.gravid.47)
- George Sand (22.glean.54)
- Shakespeare, Hamlet (1.10)
- Shakespeare (6.somniferous.1, 11)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (6.somniferous.3)
- Mary Shelley (33.gravid.12)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (6.somniferous.17-18)
- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (38.threnody.4)
- Mark Twain (33.gravid.47)
- Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (22.glean.75)
- Edith Wharton, House of Mirth (7.unman.1, 5)
- Edith Wharton (33.gravid.12)
- Walt Whitman (22.glean.54)
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (23.dehiscence.6)
- Oscar Wilde (22.glean.54)
- William Butler Yeats (22.glean.54)
- Emile Zola (22.glean.54; 23.dehiscence.6)
- Emile Zola, Therese Raquin (22.glean.84)