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.
Literature
- Beowulf (2.31, 15.20)
- "Lord Randal" (2.31, 15.20)
- Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa (3.4)
- Ring Lardner (3.4, 18.7)
- Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native (3.4, 15.18, 15.20)
- Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (3.4)
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (15.20-27)
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (15.20)
- Robert Burns, "Comin Thro' the Rye" (16.3, 22.51-55)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (16.6)
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (18.5)
- Rupert Brooke (18.7)
- Emily Dickinson (18.7)
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (18.7)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (18.7)
Historical Figures
- Benedict Arnold (21.27, 25.56, 25.65)
- Wilhelm Stekel (24.54, 24.56)
Pop Culture
- The Atlantic Monthly (2.3)
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (4.1)
- Song of India (4.1)
- The Ziegfeld Follies (4.16)
- Cary Grant (5.6)
- Vogue (8.50)
- The Baker's Wife (10.3)
- Raimu (10.3)
- The 39 Steps (10.3)
- Robert Donat (10.3)
- Peter Lorre (10.23, 10.30)
- Gary Cooper (10.43)
- The Lunts (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) (16.6)
- Sir Laurence Olivier (16.6)
- The Saturday Evening Post (17.6)