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Allusion Books

Animal Farm
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
Manslaughter Park (Jane Austen Murder Mystery, #3)
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
The 13th Day of Christmas
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
The Prairie that Nature Built
The Good Wife of Bath
Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator
Hamnet
Brown Girl, Brown Girl
Sour Apple
The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)
Simon and the Better Bone
The Last Zookeeper
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Illusion Town by Jayne CastleThe Trickle-Down Delusion by John SeipMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of... by Charles MackayIs the Visual World a Grand Illusion? by Alva NoëBehind the Door of Delusion, by Inmate, Ward 8 by Marion Marle Woodson
Lusions
140 books — 5 voters
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxMacbeth by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
References In Discworld
102 books — 7 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleySomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Titles that Allude to Shakespeare
130 books — 49 voters
Anonymous Sex by Hillary JordanButts by Heather RadkeAvailable by Laura Friedman WilliamsThe Penis Book by Aaron SpitzStrip Tease by Carl Hiaasen
Sexy Fruit
136 books — 13 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
You Can Find My Name in the Old Testament
288 books — 54 voters

Quotes Tagged “Allusion”

Lafcadio Hearn
“ A very successful method of dragon-fly-catching..is to use a captured female dragon-fly as a decoy. One end of a long thread is fastened to the insect's tail, and the other end of the thread to a flexible rod. By moving the rod in a particular way the female can be kept circling on her wings at the full length of the thread; and a male is soon attracted. As soon as he clings to the female, a slight jerk of the rod will bring both insects into the angler's hand. With a single female for lure, it ...more ”
― Lafcadio Hearn, A Japanese Miscellany: Strange Stories, Folklore Gleanings, Studies Here & There
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“ What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster. ...more ”
― Andrew Martin, Early Work
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