'The Well of Lost Plots' - Jasper Fforde

[sirinrob]

This is the sequel to 'Lost in a Good Book' and continues Thursday Next's adventures. Like its predecesor it is chock full of literary references, puns, in-jokes and general silliness. Once again, Jasper seems to have elected to use several books as key references within the novel. The books I identified are

 

'Great Expectations' Charles Dickens

'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' Lewis Carroll

'Macbeth' William Shakespeare

'Sense and Sensibility' Jane Austen

 

The Lewis Carroll material is used extensively, for instance the Cheshire Cat plays a major part. 'Great Expectations' features heavily with Miss Havisham.

 

Besides the main books noted, I spotted references to:

 

'David Copperfield'

'Much Ado about Nothing' (and an opera by Berlioz)

'Twelfth Night'

Sense and Sensibility' -Austen

'The Library of Babel' - Borges(as a concept)

'Rebecca' du Maurier

'Tess of the Dubervilles'

'Hamlet' William Shakespeare

'Wuthering Heights' Emily Bront

Edited December 28, 2009 by sirinrob