Last edited 3 days ago by Babitaarora List of book titles taken from literature Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody. (Titles taken from works by William Shakespeare do not appear here: see List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases.) Work Author Literary Reference Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 2 Samuel 19:4 A che punto è la notte (literally, At which point is the night) Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini Isaiah 21:11 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Aldous Huxley Tithonus, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ah, Wilderness! Eugene ONeill Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward FitzGerald Alien Corn (play) Sidney Howard Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats The Alien Corn (short story) W. Somerset Maugham Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats All Passion Spent Vita Sackville-West Samson Agonistes, John Milton All the Kings Men Robert Penn Warren Humpty Dumpty Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea Michael Morpurgo The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge An Acceptable Time Madeleine LEngle Psalms 66:13 Antic Hay Aldous Huxley Edward II, Christopher Marlowe An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan Quran 13:18, Arthur John Arberry translation Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw The Aeneid, Virgil As I Lay Dying William Faulkner The Odyssey, Homer A Time to Kill John Grisham Ecclesiastes 3:3 Behold the Man Michael Moorcock John 19:5 Beneath the Bleeding Val McDermid East Coker, T. S. Eliot Beyond the Mexique Bay Aldous Huxley Bermudas, Andrew Marvell Blithe Spirit Noël Coward To a Skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley Bloods a Rover James Ellroy Reveille, A.E. Housman Blue Remembered Earth Alastair Reynolds A Shropshire Lad, Poem XL, A.E. Housman Blue Remembered Hills Rosemary Sutcliff A Shropshire Lad, Poem XL, A.E. Housman Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan À Peine Défigurée, Paul Éluard Brandy of the Damned Colin Wilson Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown American Names, Stephen Vincent Benét Butter In a Lordly Dish Agatha Christie Judges 5:25 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept Elizabeth Smart Psalms 137:1 Cabbages and Kings O. Henry The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll Carrion Comfort Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort, Gerard Manley Hopkins A Catskill Eagle Robert B. Parker Moby-Dick, Herman Melville Clouds of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers Hebrews 12:1 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting, Jonathan Swift Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot Consider the Lilies Iain Crichton Smith Matthew 6:28 Cover Her Face P. D. James The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens Il Penseroso, John Milton The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Silver Blaze, Arthur Conan Doyle The Daffodil Sky H. E. Bates Maud, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Dance Dance Dance Haruki Murakami Deaths Echo, W.H. Auden A Darkling Plain Philip Reeve Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold Death Be Not Proud John Gunther Holy Sonnets X, John Donne The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake Down to a Sunless Sea David Graham Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen Odes iii 2.13, Horace Dying of the Light George R. R. Martin Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas East of Eden John Steinbeck Genesis 4:16 Ego Dominus Tuus William Butler Yeats La Vita Nuova, Dante Endless Night Agatha Christie Auguries of Innocence, William Blake Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley Samson Agonistes, John Milton Fair Stood the Wind for France H. E. Bates Ballad of Agincourt, Michael Drayton Fame Is the Spur Howard Spring Lycidas, John Milton A Fanatic Heart Edna OBrien Remorse for Intemperate Speech, William Butler Yeats The Far-Distant Oxus Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock Sohrab and Rustum, Matthew Arnold A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (To Queen Elizabeth), George Peele Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray Fear and Trembling Søren Kierkegaard Philippians 2:12 For a Breath I Tarry Roger Zelazny A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Meditation XVII, John Donne Frequent Hearses Edmund Crispin Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Alexander Pope From Here to Eternity James Jones Gentlemen-Rankers, Rudyard Kipling A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym The Pulley, George Herbert The Glory and the Dream William Manchester William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality The Golden Apples of the Sun Ray Bradbury The Song of the Wandering Angus, W. B. Yeats The Golden Bowl Henry James Ecclesiastes 12:6 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, Ernest Dowson The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe Great Work of Time John Crowley Horatian Ode upon Cromwells Return from Ireland, Andrew Marvell The Green Bay Tree Louis Bromfield Psalms 37:35 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot Have His Carcase Dorothy L. Sayers The Iliad, Homer (William Cowpers translation) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers The Lonely Hunter, William Sharp The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things JT LeRoy Jeremiah 17:9 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman Paradise Lost, John Milton The House of Mirth Edith Wharton Ecclesiastes 7:4 How Sleep the Brave H. E. Bates How Sleep the Brave, William Collins How Sleep the Brave James H. Hunter How Sleep the Brave, William Collins How Sleep the Brave John Briley How Sleep the Brave, William Collins I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar I Sing the Body Electric Ray Bradbury Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein Psalms 23:4 If I Forget Thee Jerusalem William Faulkner Psalms 137:5 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi Pirkei Avot 1:13 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Hamlet, William Shakespeare In a Dry Season Peter Robinson Gerontion, by T. S. Eliot In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu I Corinthians 13:12 In Death Ground David Weber & Steve White The Art of War, Sun Tzu In Dubious Battle John Steinbeck Paradise Lost, John Milton An Instant In The Wind André Brink The Broken Tower, Hart Crane Its a Battlefield Graham Greene The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 6, Alexander William Kinglake Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson Romans 9:13 O Jerusalem! Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins Psalms 137:5 Jesting Pilate Aldous Huxley Of Truth, Francis Bacon The Last Enemy Richard Hillary I Corinthians 15:26 The Last Temptation Val McDermid Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin Zhuangzi, Book XXIII, paragraph 7 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee Ecclesiasticus 44:1 Lilies of the Field William Edmund Barrett Matthew 6:28 This Lime Tree Bower Conor McPherson This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst The Analysis of Beauty, William Hogarth The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman Song of Songs 2:15 Little Hands Clapping Dan Rhodes The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe Lycidas, John Milton Look to Windward Iain M. Banks The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot The Man Within Graham Greene Religio Medici, Thomas Browne Many Waters Madeleine LEngle Song of Songs 8:7 A Many-Splendoured Thing Han Suyin The Kingdom of God, Francis Thompson The Mermaids Singing Val McDermid The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot The Millstone Margaret Drabble Matthew 18:6 The Mirror Crackd from Side to Side Agatha Christie The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Moab Is My Washpot Stephen Fry Psalms 60:8 The Monkeys Raincoat Robert Crais The Monkeys Raincoat, Matsuo Bashō A Monstrous Regiment of Women Laurie R. King The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, John Knox The Moon by Night Madeleine LEngle Psalms 121:6 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut Faust Part One, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Moving Finger Agatha Christie Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward FitzGerald The Moving Toyshop Edmund Crispin The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope Mr Standfast John Buchan Pilgrims Progress, John Bunyan Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya Work Without Hope, Samuel Coleridge The Needles Eye Margaret Drabble Matthew 19:24 Nine Coaches Waiting Mary Stewart The Revengers Tragedy, Cyril Tourneur No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats No Highway Nevil Shute The Wanderer, John Masefield Noli Me Tangere José Rizal John 20:17 No Longer at Ease Chinua Achebe The Journey of the Magi, T. S. Eliot Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal H. E. Bates Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Number the Stars Lois Lowry Psalms 147:4 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham Ethics, Baruch Spinoza Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck To a Mouse, Robert Burns Oh! To be in England H. E. Bates Home Thoughts From Abroad, Robert Browning The Other Side of Silence André Brink Middlemarch, George Eliot The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live, sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pale Kings and Princes Robert B. Parker La Belle Dame sans Merci, John Keats The Parliament of Man Paul Kennedy Locksley Hall, Alfred Lord Tennyson Paths of Glory Humphrey Cobb Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray A Passage to India E. M. Forster Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman O Pioneers! Willa Cather Pioneers! O Pioneers!, Walt Whitman Postern of Fate Agatha Christie Gates of Damascus, James Elroy Flecker Precious Bane Mary Webb Paradise Lost, John Milton The Proper Study Isaac Asimov An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz John 13:36 (Vulgate translation) Recalled to Life Reginald Hill A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Recalled to Life Robert Silverberg A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Ring of Bright Water Gavin Maxwell The Marriage of Psyche, Kathleen Raine The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick I Corinthians 13:12 Shall not Perish William Faulkner Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln The Skull Beneath the Skin P. D. James Whispers of Immortality, T. S. Eliot The Soldiers Art Anthony Powell Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Robert Browning Some Buried Caesar Rex Stout Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward FitzGerald Specimen Days Michael Cunningham Walt Whitmans prosework The Stars Tennis Balls Stephen Fry The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein Exodus 2:22 Such, Such Were the Joys George Orwell The Echoing Green, William Blake A Summer Bird-Cage Margaret Drabble The White Devil, John Webster The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Ecclesiastes 1:5 Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy, William Wordsworth A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine LEngle Morning Song of Senlin, Conrad Aiken Taming a Sea Horse Robert B. Parker My Last Duchess, Robert Browning Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats Terrible Swift Sword Bruce Catton The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe That Good Night NJ Crisp Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis Ane Dialog, David Lyndsay Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald Tiare Tahiti, Rupert Brooke Those Barren Leaves Aldous Huxley The Tables Turned, William Wordsworth Thrones, Dominations Dorothy L. Sayers Paradise Lost, John Milton Tiger! Tiger! - alternative title of The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester The Tyger, William Blake Tiger! Tiger! Rudyard Kipling short story The Tyger, William Blake A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor Twelfth night, Louis MacNeice Time of our Darkness Stephen Gray For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon Time To Murder And Create Lawrence Block The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot Tirra Lirra by the River Jessica Anderson The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord Tennyson To a God Unknown John Steinbeck Rig Veda Book X To Sail Beyond the Sunset Robert A. Heinlein Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip José Farmer Holy Sonnets VIII, John Donne The Torment of Others Val McDermid The Dry Salvages, T. S. Eliot Unweaving the Rainbow Richard Dawkins Lamia, John Keats Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The Pilgrims Progress, John Bunyan Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh Philippians 3:21 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery OConnor Matthew 11:12 (Douay translation) Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians, Constantine P. Cavafy The Waste Land T. S. Eliot From Ritual to Romance, Jessie L. Weston The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler Joshua 23:14 (as rephrased in Wesleys Notes) The Way Through the Woods Colin Dexter The Way Through the Woods, Rudyard Kipling The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith Isaiah 61:6 Whats Become of Waring Anthony Powell Waring from Dramatic Lyrics, Robert Browning When the Green Woods Laugh H. E. Bates Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope The Widening Gyre Robert B. Parker The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats Wildfire at Midnight Mary Stewart The Revengers Tragedy, Cyril Tourneur The Winds Twelve Quarters Ursula Le Guin A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman The Wings of the Dove Henry James Psalms 55:6 The Wives of Bath Susan Swan The Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer The World, the Flesh and the Devil Mary Elizabeth Braddon Book of Common Prayer The Yellow Meads of Asphodel H. E. Bates Ode on St. Cecilias Day, Alexander Pope See also List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases Wikipedia ® MobileDesktop Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Terms of UsePrivacy
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