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
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (7.11)
- Shakespeare, King Lear (17.15)
- Diana Wynne Jones , Charmed Life (27.9)
- Diana Wynne Jones, The Lives of Christopher Chant (27.11)
- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (39.22)
- Mark Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer (45.24)
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (46.10)
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (46.10)
- Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons (46.10)
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (60.2)