Ali Smith
10 books on BookJumpr.
Books by Ali Smith
Quotes from Ali Smith's books, and about them
- Artful on Oliver Twist: “It was a Dickens novel, Oliver Twist, the old Penguin edition I'd had at university”
- Artful on The Golden Bowl: “got down Volume 1 of your old 1909 copy of Henry James's The Golden Bowl”
- Artful on Troilus and Cressida: “Graham Greene on Shakespeare's felicity of form... a throwaway moment from Troilus and Cressida”
- Artful on Madame Bovary: “One of the most recent translators of Madame Bovary, Lydia Davis, notes”
- Artful on War and Peace: “Graham Greene, on reading War and Peace: 'What's the use of ever writing again'”
- Artful on One Art: “What was left of On Edge was a poem you'd typed out and printed up: One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop”
- Artful on Lysistrata: “Shaw's Pygmalion and Aristophanes's Lysistrata and the leads in My Fair Lady”
- Artful on Pygmalion: “Shirley Valentine and Shaw's Pygmalion and Aristophanes's Lysistrata”
- Artful on Sweet Bird of Youth: “the leads in My Fair Lady and in Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth”
- Artful on Odes: “Shakespeare's original source for Sonnet 55, Horace's Odes: exegi monumentum aere perennius”
Authors Ali Smith's books mention
- William Shakespeare (15): Artful mentions Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest; Companion Piece mentions Twelfth Night, Hamlet; Girl Meets Boy mentions Twelfth Night; How to be both mentions As You Like It, Hamlet; There but for the mentions Hamlet, The Winter's Tale; Winter mentions Cymbeline, Hamlet; Spring mentions Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Macbeth
- Charles Dickens (6): Artful mentions Oliver Twist; The Accidental mentions Great Expectations; Winter mentions A Christmas Carol; Spring mentions Hard Times, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Story of Richard Doubledick
- Rainer Maria Rilke (4): Artful mentions Archaic Torso of Apollo, Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.; Spring mentions Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus
- Edwin Morgan (3): Artful mentions Not Marble: A Reconstruction, The Sandal; Like mentions Not Marble
- D. H. Lawrence (2): There but for the mentions Women in Love; Spring mentions The Rainbow
- Dylan Thomas (2): Artful mentions In My Craft or Sullen Art; Girl Meets Boy mentions The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
- Edward Lear (2): Glyph mentions A Book of Nonsense; There but for the mentions A Book of Nonsense
- Joseph Conrad (2): Artful mentions The Shadow-Line; There but for the mentions The Secret Agent
- Katherine Mansfield (2): Artful mentions At the Bay; Spring mentions The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
- L. P. Hartley (2): Like mentions The Go-Between; There but for the mentions The Go-Between
- Philip Larkin (2): The Accidental mentions An Arundel Tomb, At Grass
- Rudyard Kipling (2): Girl Meets Boy mentions If—; Like mentions Gunga Din
- Sylvia Plath (2): Artful mentions Edge, The Disquieting Muses
- Tennessee Williams (2): Artful mentions Sweet Bird of Youth; Like mentions A Streetcar Named Desire
- Anonymous (1): Artful mentions The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Antal Szerb (1): The Accidental mentions Journey by Moonlight
- Aristophanes (1): Artful mentions Lysistrata
- Bertolt Brecht (1): Artful mentions Man Equals Man
- Boris Pasternak (1): Artful mentions The Wedding Party
- Cennino Cennini (1): How to be both mentions Il Libro dell’Arte
- Curzio Malaparte (1): Glyph mentions The Skin
- Cyril Connolly (1): Artful mentions The Unquiet Grave
- Czesław Miłosz (1): Artful mentions Ars Poetica
- D. M. Thomas (1): There but for the mentions The White Hotel
- Daniel Defoe (1): There but for the mentions Robinson Crusoe
- E. E. Cummings (1): Artful mentions i thank You God for most this amazing day
- E. M. Forster (1): Artful mentions Aspects of the Novel
- E. Nesbit (1): There but for the mentions The Railway Children
- Edwin A. Abbott (1): Glyph mentions Flatland
- Elizabeth Bishop (1): Artful mentions One Art
- Elizabeth Hardwick (1): Artful mentions Sleepless Nights
- Émile Zola (1): Spring mentions Germinal
- Ernest Hemingway (1): The Accidental mentions For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Eugenio Montale (1): How to be both mentions The Eel
- George Bernard Shaw (1): Artful mentions Pygmalion
- George Eliot (1): The Accidental mentions The Mill on the Floss
- George Orwell (1): There but for the mentions Reflections on Gandhi
- Gustave Flaubert (1): Artful mentions Madame Bovary
- H. G. Wells (1): Glyph mentions The Dream
- Heinrich Hoffmann (1): There but for the mentions Struwwelpeter
- Henry James (1): Artful mentions The Golden Bowl
- Horace (1): Artful mentions Odes
- Italo Calvino (1): Artful mentions Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- J. G. Ballard (1): Artful mentions Crash
- Jane Austen (1): The Accidental mentions Emma
- Javier Marías (1): Artful mentions Your Face Tomorrow
- John Keats (1): Companion Piece mentions In Drear-Nighted December
- José Saramago (1): Artful mentions The Stone Raft
- Kurt Vonnegut (1): There but for the mentions Slaughterhouse-Five
- L. M. Montgomery (1): There but for the mentions Anne of Green Gables
- Lavinia Greenlaw (1): Artful mentions The Messenger God
- Leo Tolstoy (1): Artful mentions War and Peace
- Louisa May Alcott (1): The Accidental mentions Little Women
- Marcel Proust (1): There but for the mentions In Search of Lost Time
- Muriel Spark (1): Companion Piece mentions Loitering with Intent
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1): Companion Piece mentions The Scarlet Letter
- Ovid (1): Artful mentions Amores
- Paul-Henri Mallet (1): Like mentions Northern Antiquities
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1): Spring mentions The Cloud
- Robert Burns (1): Like mentions To a Mountain Daisy
- Robert M. Pirsig (1): There but for the mentions Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Roland Barthes (1): Like mentions A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1): There but for the mentions Heat and Dust
- Samuel Richardson (1): Like mentions Clarissa
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1): Companion Piece mentions The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Sophocles (1): Artful mentions Antigone
- Thomas Hardy (1): Like mentions A Pair of Blue Eyes
- Thomas Mann (1): There but for the mentions Death in Venice
- Virginia Woolf (1): Artful mentions Character in Fiction
- Wallace Stevens (1): Artful mentions Anecdote of the Jar
- Wilfred Owen (1): Glyph mentions Anthem for Doomed Youth
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1): The Accidental mentions Vanity Fair
- William Wordsworth (1): Like mentions The Solitary Reaper