Referenced

While reading Code Name Verity, I am sure you noticed the many references to songs and literary works Wein made in her writing. Queenie is well-versed in literature, so she quotes several different texts. I have compiled all of the works mentioned in Code Name Verity for your leisure. If you are a student, perhaps you would like to see the works that influenced Queenie. Maybe you would like to view them just to satisfy your curiosity. If you are a teacher, this list will provide a background for the novel as well as develop a better understanding of some of the complex ideas of Code Name Verity.

I have provided a link within each work that leads to a website explaining the work. Also, keep in mind that Code Name Verity takes place in 1943, so all of the referenced works were written before that time.

1. The Last Time I Saw Paris- Ann Sothern, 1941
2.  Dream a Little Dream of Me- Oswald George “Ozzie” Nelson, 1931
3. Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)- Felix Mendelssohn, 1830
4. Lord Nelson Mass- Franz Joseph Haydn, 1798
5. Peter Pan- J. M. Barrie, 1902
6. A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)- composed by various authors across Asia and North Africa, Islamic Golden Age (mid-8^th century-1258)
7. Kim- Rudyard Kipling, 1901
8. Macbeth- William Shakespeare, 1611
9. Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare, 1597
10.  A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens, 1859
11.  Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell, 1933
12.  “Tam o’Shanter”- Robert Burns, 1791
13. Kidnapped- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
14. A Little Princess- Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905
15. The Silence of the Sea- Jean Bruller (pseudonym Vercors), 1942
16. Narcissus and Goldmund- Hermann Hesse, 1930
17. Faust- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1806
18. "The Waste Land"- T. S. Elliot, 1922