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Literary Allusions Books
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,495,238 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 2 times as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.88 — 136,572 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.89 — 22,756 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,548 ratings — published 2025

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.82 — 658 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.22 — 693 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,859 ratings — published 2025

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.86 — 15,487 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,272 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,210 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,008 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,596 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,992 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.62 — 114,296 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,386 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,302 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,763 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.35 — 166,988 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.50 — 497 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.96 — 280 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,352 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,467 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,024 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,391 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,748 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,640 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,739 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,603 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 2.81 — 12,807 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,632 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.05 — 990 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,683 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.21 — 600 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,568 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,016 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.76 — 258,941 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.99 — 95,344 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.91 — 244,779 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.38 — 212 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.72 — 276 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,260 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,367 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.22 — 79 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.96 — 484 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.95 — 192 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,749 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,100 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.89 — 330 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,063 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as literary-allusions)
avg rating 3.98 — 336 ratings — published 2021

“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and betrayed, yet still staunch, people. Oh and moorland, of course, vast tracts of brooding landscape under lowering skies, and across this heath strode brooding, lowering men intent on reaching their ancestral houses, where they were going to fling open doors and castigate orphaned yet resolute governesses. Or — preferably — the brooding, lowering men were on horseback, black horses with huge muscled haunches, glistening with sweat —”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories

“She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Full fathom five thy father lies. Little lamb, who made thee? Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. On that best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Farther and farther, all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen. Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
― A God in Ruins
The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen. Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
― A God in Ruins