Books with Titles Taken from Literature
Walter Graves A list of books with titles that quote other well-known works of literature. Many of these are phrases we've heard, but probably can't place. This list provides the answers. Coincidentally (or perhaps by design), many of these books may also be found on lists of the greatest literature of all time. It's no surprise that being "well read" is an attribute shared by many of the world's greatest authors. This list excludes books that only quote Shakespeare in their title. Shakespeare is quoted so often, he would require his own list. You'll probably notice that many of these quotes have also been used as song titles and in other mediums.
- 1
A che punto è la notte
“ Source of title: Book of Isaiah 21:11 „ - 2
John Kennedy Toole“ Source of title: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting, Jonathan Swift „ - 3
Philip Reeve“ Source of title: Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold „ - 4
A Fanatic Heart
“ Source of title: Remorse for Intemperate Speech, William Butler Yeats „ - 5
A Glass of Blessings
Barbara Pym“ Source of title: The Pulley, George Herbert „ - 6
Evelyn Waugh“ Source of title: The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot „ - 7
A Many-Splendoured Thing
Han Suyin“ Source of title: The Kingdom of God, Francis Thompson „ - 8 Laurie R. King“ Source of title: The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, John Knox „
- 9 E. M. Forster“ Source of title: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman „
- 10 Madeleine L'Engle“ Source of title: Morning Song of Senlin, Conrad Aiken „
- 11
A Time of Gifts
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor“ Source of title: Twelfth night, Louis MacNeice „ - 12 John Grisham, David Alan Mack“ Source of title: Ecclesiastes 3:3 „
- 13 William Faulkner“ Source of title: 2 Samuel 19:4 „
- 14
After many a summer dies the swan
Aldous Huxley“ Source of title: Tithonus, Alfred, Lord Tennyson „ - 15
Ah, Wilderness!
Eugene O'Neill“ Source of title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translation Edward FitzGerald „ - 16 Edith L. Tiempo“ Source of title: Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats „
- 17
All Passion Spent
Vita Sackville-West“ Source of title: Samson Agonistes, John Milton „ - 18 Robert Penn Warren“ Source of title: Humpty Dumpty „
- 19
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo“ Source of title: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge „ - 20 Madeleine L'Engle“ Source of title: Psalms 66:13 „
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An Evil Cradling
Brian Keenan“ Source of title: Qur'an 13:18, Arthur John Arberry translation „ - 22
An Instant in the Wind
André Brink“ Source of title: The Broken Tower, Hart Crane „ - 23 Aldous Huxley“ Source of title: Edward II, Christopher Marlowe „
- 24
Arms and the man
William Lowther“ Source of title: The Aeneid, Virgil „ - 25 William Faulkner“ Source of title: The Odyssey, Homer „
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