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
- Alger, Horatio (31.5)
- Aristotle (31.4)
- St. Augustine (31.4)
- Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility (31.2)
- Bacon, Sir Francis (31.4)
- Baudelaire, Charles, Flowers of Evil (24.14)
- Bergson, Henri (31.4)
- Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre (24.14)
- Chesterton, G. K. (31.4)
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (31.4)
- Conan Doyle, Arthur, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (5.72-73, 5.75, 6.82, 32.29)
- Cooper, James Fenimore (4.11)
- de Crèvecœur, Jean (31.4)
- Darwin, Charles (31.4)
- Defoe, Daniel (31.4)
- Dickens, Charles (4.11, 24.14, 31.4)
- Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield (24.60)
- Dryden, John (31.4)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (31.4)
- Hardy, Thomas (24.14)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (4.11, 31.4)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter (4.13)
- Homer (31.4)
- Howells, William Dean (4.11)
- James, Henry (24.14)
- James, William (31.4)
- Jefferson, Thomas (31.4)
- Lamb, Charles (31.4)
- Leclerc, Georges-Louis (Comte de Buffon) (31.4)
- Locke, John (31.4)
- Lyell, Charles (31.4)
- Mann, Thomas, The Magic Mountain (24.14)
- Melville, Herman (31.4)
- Melville, Herman, Benito Cereno (24.14)
- Melville, Herman, Moby Dick (4.11)
- Paine, Thomas (31.4)
- Plato (31.4)
- Plutarch (31.4)
- Pope, Alexander (31.4)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (31.4)
- Scott, Sir Walter (4.11)
- Shakespeare, William (24.14, 31.4)
- Shaw, George Bernard (31.4)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (31.4)
- Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe (24.60)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis (31.4)
- Sophocles (31.4)
- Swift, Jonathan (31.4)
- Thoreau, Henry David (31.4)
- Tolstoy, Leo (31.4)
- Twain, Mark (4.11, 31.4)
- Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn (4.12)
- Virgil (31.4)
- Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest (24.14)
- Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway (24.14)
Historical References
- 442nd (Nisei) Regiment (19.119-120)
- Martin de Aquilar (1.7)
- The Everett Massacre (4.16)
- King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (7.11)
- The Lindbergh kidnapping (8.42)
- Manzanar (7.51 and afterward throughout)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (24.60)
- The Meiji Restoration (11.48-49)
- The Nazis (27.80)
- Pershing, General John J. (4.17)
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (8.42)
- Battle of Tarawa (16.5-56)
- Toshimichi, Okubo (11.49)
- The Westinghouse Family (8.46)
- Wilson, Woodrow (4.16)
- World War I (13.10)
- World War II (throughout)