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 References
- Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations (2.13)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (4.12)
- Immanuel Kant (4.12)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (5.44)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (5.44)
- George Meredith (5.44)
- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (6.12-21)
- George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (14.7, 41.9)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Prince Otto (14.9)
- E.V. Lucas, Open Road (14.11)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Vignibus (14.14)
- Richard Jefferies (14.17)
- George Borrow (14.18)
- Henry David Thoreau (14.18)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (27.3)
- Bluebeard (27.3)
- The Erinyes/Furies (41.2)
Pop Culture References
- Ludwig Von Beethoven, Fifth Symphony (5.1)
- Johannes Brahms, Four Serious Songs (5.12)
- Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance (5.17)
- Charles Gounod, Faust (5.26)
- Giacomo Puccini, Tosca (5.26)
- Richard Wagner, Tannhauser (5.26)
- Claude Monet (5.28)
- Claude Debussy (5.28)
- Richard Wagner (5.30)
- Charles Ricketts (5.39)
- Frederic Leighton (5.44)
- John Everett Millais (5.44)
- John Anster Fitzgerald (5.44)
Historical References
- Battle of Sedan, 1870 (4.12)
- Napoleon III (4.12)
- German Unification (4.12)
- Boer War (18.16)
- Napoleon (27.3)
- James Pierpont Morgan (27.3)