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
- Lord Byron (1.1.1)
- Sappho (1.1.129)
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1.1.129)
- Goethe, Faust (2.5.70)
- Joseph Conrad, Almayer's Folly (2.5.70)
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2.2.167)
- Leo Tolstoy (1.4.308)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1.4.308)
Historical References
- Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (1.1.128)
- Christie Mathewson (1.1.128)
- The French Revolution (2.2.202)
- American Prohibition (2.2.164)
- World War One (I.2)