Referenced By / Literature

List of allusions which authors and books received from other works of fiction.

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Writers

• Maya Angelou
• Jane Austen
• Iain Banks
• William Blake
• Anne Brontë
• Charlotte Brontë
• Emily Brontë
• Lord Byron
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Anton Chekhov
• Joseph Conrad
• Emily Dickinson
• Robert Frost
• Allen Ginsberg
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A. E. Housman
• Henry James
• Franz Kafka
• Søren Kierkegaard
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Herman Melville
• Edgar Allan Poe

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• Alexander Pushkin
• Dr. Seuss
• William Shakespeare
• Richard Sharpe Shaver
• Mary Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Sojourner Truth
• Stendhal
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Jules Verne
• Voltaire
• H.G. Wells
• Walt Whitman
• William Butler Yeats

Works

• 1984
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• The Adventures of Pinocchio
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Aeneid
• Alice in Wonderland
  • Alice Allusion (when a character is explicitly named Alice to make the reference)
• Anne of Green Gables
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
• Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
• Arsène Lupin
• Ars Goetia
• Atlas Shrugged
• Babar
• Baba Yaga
• Because of Winn-Dixie
• Beowulf
• The Berenstain Bears
• The Bible:
  • As the Good Book Says...
  • Song of Songs
• The Big Sleep
• The Black Company
• Brighton Rock
• The Call of the Wild
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Captain Underpants
• Carmilla
• Carrie
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Cat in the Hat

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• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Charlotte's Web
• A Christmas Carol
  • Yet Another Christmas Carol (when the plot is based on the story)
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Contact
• Crime and Punishment
• Cthulhu Mythos
• Curious George
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Danny, the Champion of the World
• The Demolished Man
• Desperation
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Dick and Jane
• Discworld
• Divergent
• The Divine Comedy
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Doc Savage
• Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
• Don Quixote
• Dracula
• The Dresden Files
• Dune
• The Elric Saga
• The Elves and the Cobbler
• Emma
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• The Erl-King
• Ethan Frome
• Everyone Poops
• The Exorcist
• The Expanse
• Fahrenheit 451
• A Farewell to Arms
• The Fisherman and His Wife
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• Flat Stanley
• Frankenstein
• Frog and Toad
• The Giver
• The Giving Tree
• Go Ask Alice
• Goldilocks
• Gone with the Wind

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• Goodnight Moon
• Great Expectations
• The Great Gatsby
• Green Eggs and Ham
• Gulliver's Travels
• Hainish
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
• Hansel and Gretel
• Harry Potter
• Have You Seen My Potty?
• Heart of Darkness
• Henry Huggins
• A Hero of Our Time
• Hilary Tamar
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Hobbit
• Horatio Hornblower
• Howl
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• The Hunger Games
• I Am a Cat
• The Iliad
• Illuminatus!
• Invisible Man
• The Invisible Man
• Jabberwocky
• James Bond
• Jane Eyre
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Journey to the West
• Kama Sutra
• Kidnapped
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• The Little Engine That Could
• Little House on the Prairie
• The Little Prince
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Little Women
• Lolita
• Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Maltese Falcon
• Mansfield Park
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• The Martian
• Mary Poppins
• The Master and Margarita
• Mercy Thompson
• Les Misérables
• Moby-Dick
• Moll Flanders
• Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
• Mr. Men
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Myth Adventures
• Nancy Drew
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Noddy
• Northanger Abbey
• The Odyssey
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Old Yeller
• Oliver Twist
• The One and Only Ivan
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• On the Road
• The Outsiders
• Pale Fire
• Paradise Lost
• Persuasion
• Peter Pan
• Peter Rabbit
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Pilgrim's Progress
• Pippi Longstocking
• Pride and Prejudice
• Principia Discordia
• Puss in Boots
• Raggedy Ann
• Rebecca
• Reynard the Fox
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• A River Runs Through It
• Robin Hood
• Robinson Crusoe
• Rosemary's Baby
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• The Screwtape Letters
• The Second Coming
• The Secret Garden
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Sense and Sensibility
• Shadow Children
• Sharpe
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Shining
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sleeping Beauty
• Snow White
• A Song of Ice and Fire
• Spenser
• The Stars My Destination
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Tale of Genji
• Tarzan
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• There's a Wocket in My Pocket
• Therese Desqueyroux
• The Three Musketeers
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Treasure Island
  • Long John Shout-Out (when a character is a thinly veiled appearance of the titular pirate)
• The Trumpet of the Swan
• 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
• Twilight
• The Ugly Duckling
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Vanity Fair
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• The Virgin Suicides
• The Voyage of the Space Beagle
• War and Peace
• The War of the Worlds
• Warrior Cats
• Watership Down
• What Maisie Knew
• Where the Wild Things Are
• The Wind in the Willows
• Winnie-the-Pooh
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Woman in White
• Wuthering Heights
• Xanth
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• Zorro

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