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 and Philosophy
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1.38)
- Walt Whitman (1.38)
- William Faulkner (1.38)
- Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp (1.334)
- Dante (1.530)
- Jonathan Swift (1.530), Gulliver’s Travels (1.682, 3.335)
- Marcus Aurelius (1.530)
- Helen Bannerman, Little Black Sambo (1.530)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1.530)
- Samuel Johnson (2.2)
- James Boswell (2.7)
- Sophocles (2.181)
- Aeschylus (2.202)
- Shakespeare (2.46, 2.169, 2.329, 3.39), Julius Caesar (3.49), Hamlet (1.588)
- Henry David Thoreau (2.55), Walden (3.444)
- Luigi Pirandello (2.169)
- George Bernard Shaw (2.169)
- John Milton (2.181)
- Eugene O’Neill (2.202)
- The Chesire Cat, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (2.245)
- Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach (2.328-33)
- Sir Philip Sydney (2.373)
- Alexander Pope (2.373, 2.376)
- Dr. Johnson (2.380)
- Paul Valéry (2.382)
- Thomas Hardy (3.314)
- José Ortega Y Gasset (3.314)
- Plato (2.46), The Republic (3.330, 3.332)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (3.335)
- Aristophanes (3.335)
- Thomas Love Peacock (3.335)
- Lord Byron (3.338)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (3.338)
Historical Figures
- Benjamin Franklin (1.311)
- Hugh Latimer (1.325)
- Thomas Jefferson (2.55, 3.335)
- Marcus Aurelius (3.332)
- Einstein (3.335)
- Charles Darwin (3.335)
- Abraham Lincoln (3.335)
- Albert Schweitzer (3.335)
- Confucius (3.335)
- Thomas Paine (3.338)
- Bertrand Russell (3.344)
- The Magna Carta (3.353)
- The Constitution of the Untied States (3.353)
Religious and Mythological References
- Hercules and Antaeus (2.130)
- Tower of Babel (1.349)
- The Bible (2.42, 2.56, 2.186, 2.243)
- Old and New Testaments (2.51)
- Job and Ruth (2.329)
- Book of Ecclesiastes (3.319, 3.388)
- Book of Revelation (3.319, 3.388, 3.411)
- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (3.335)
- Jesus Christ (3.338)
- Mahatma Gandhi (3.335)
- Gautama Buddha (3.335)