Free Love and Other Stories

References in the book

Books mentioned in "Text for the day"

  • Villette and Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
  • Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
  • Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
  • Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Bliss by Peter Carey
  • The Novel Today by Malcolm Bradbury
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Selected Dramas and Lyrics of Ben Johnson
  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
  • Dubliners by James Joyce
  • The Sunday Missal and Prayer Book
  • Mornings in Mexico by D. H. Lawrence

Films mentioned in "To the cinema"

  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Pandora's Box (1929, starring Louise Brooks)
  • Beauty Prize (1930, starring Louise Brooks)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
  • A Bout de Souffle (1960)
  • Barbarella (1968)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • Betty Blue (1986)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Other prominent references

  • Crazy by Patsy Cline features in "A Quick One"
  • Queen Christina (a 1933 film starring Greta Garbo) features in "Jenny Robertson your friend is not coming"

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