When authors give shout outs 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
- Hans Christian Andersen, "The Snow Queen" (3.5)
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (4.82)
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (4.82; 20.145)
- One Thousand and One Nights (5.2)
- Lord Byron (6.21)
- E.M. Forster (6.63, 6.107)
- William Shakespeare (6.108; 18.28; 22.81; 24.232; 25.109)
- George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (9.53)
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (9.53)
- Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (9.53, 9.64)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (12.2)
- Charles Dickens (18.5; 20.158)
- Dante Alighieri (18.28; 20.71, 20.195)
- John Donne (18.28; 25.198, 25.383, 25.388)
- T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" (18.28)
- John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes" (18.28; 21.206; 25.383)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (20.108)
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (20.105, 20.139; 22.14)
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (20.574)
- George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion(21.106)
- Virgil (21.198)
- Marcel Proust (21.209)
- Anthony Trollope, The Warden (22.91)
- Henry James, The Golden Bowl (20.598; 22.178)
- Lewis Carroll, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (23.5)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Art Thou Pale for Weariness" (23.9)
- Ben Jonson, "Queen and Huntress" (23.9)
- Johanna Spyri, Heidi (24.72)
- "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (24.90)
- Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (24.116)
- Edmund Burke (24.164)
- John Milton (24.164)
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (25.8)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (25.240)
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (25.294; 26.166)
- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (25.382)
- John Donne, "The Relic"
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (25.599)
- Graham Greene, The Comedians (25.631)
- Tennessee Williams, Streetcar Named Desire (25.661)
- Oscar Wilde (26.7)
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (26.24)
- Song of Roland (26.26)
Historical References
- Frédéric Chopin (6.23; 20.102; 25.23)
- Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel (6.104)
- Florence Nightingale (6.149)
- Winston Churchill (18.6; 25.185)
- Auschwitz (18.15)
- Tutankhamen (20.26)
- Marie Antoinette (20.70)
- Franz Liszt (20.102; 25.23)
- Johann Brahms (21.140)
- Gustav Mahler (21.140)
- Cleopatra and Marc Antony (21.150)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (22.22)
- Pablo Picasso (22.22)
- Peter Paul Rubens (22.22)
- Annie Oakley (23.28)
- Charlemagne (24.112)
- Albert Speer (24.115, 24.151)
- Elizabeth I (24.155)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (24.275; 25.478)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (24.288)
- Charles Darwin (25.346)
Pop Culture References
- Bessie Smith (18.7; 20.195)
- Ida Cox (20.103)
- The Mikado (20.195)
- Sam Brown, "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" (20.610)
- Charlie Chaplin (20.668)
- Ma Rainey, "Yonder Come the Blues" (21.205)
- Disney's Three Little Pigs (24.103)
- King Kong (24.167)
- Snow White (24.167)
- Mickey Mouse (24.171, 24.213)