Books & Authors

 This is a list of other books and authors mentioned in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

 with a note of reference.

I been in some of the biggest libraries in the country. I read. I read all the time. I read books that tell the pure honest truth. Over there in my suitcase I have books by Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen and such writers as them.

Thorstein Veblen

Benedict de Spinoza

He settled himself at the table with his books by Spinoza and William Shakespeare and Karl Marx. When he read the Spinoza aloud to himself the words had a rich, dark sound.

On written lessons she (Miss Minner) cracked such questions as ‘Name eight famous contemporaries of Doctor Johnson,’ and ‘Quote ten lines from “The Vicar of Wakefield.”’

The old man leaned back in his chair and waggled his head up and down. ‘Portia, Hon, supposing you reads to us a little while. The word of God sure do mean a lot in a time of trouble.’

Portia took up the Bible from the center of the room. ‘What part you want to hear now, Grandpapa?”

‘It all the book of the Holy Lord. Just any place your eye fall on will do.’

Portia read from the book of Luke.

. . . at Vocational when they read about the Jew in ‘Ivanhoe’ the other kids would look around at Harry and he would come home and cry.