Françoise Sagan, La Chamade, tr. Robert Westhoff (London: Penguin Books, 1968).
This unsourced story, which Dumas is said to have enjoyed, appears in several collections of anecdotes from the nineteenth century onwards.
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896) in A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, ed. Nick Laird (London: Penguin Classics, 2010).
E. V. Lucas, The Life of Charles Lamb (London: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1905).
Boris Zhitkov, Što ja vídel or What I Saw, ed. Richard L. Leed and Lora Paperno (Indiana University: Slavica Publishers, 1988).
Tsurezuregusa or Essays in Idleness, tr. Donald Keene (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896) in A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, ed. Nick Laird (London: Penguin Classics, 2010).
Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1800, in Lyrical Ballads, ed. Michael Mason (London: Routledge, Longman Annotated English Poets, 2007).
Federico García Lorca, ‘Play and Theory of the Duende’, published in Lorca – In Search of Duende, tr. Christopher Maurer (Paris: New Directions, 1998).
Nick Cave, The Secret Life of the Love Song, published in The Complete Lyrics 1978–2007 (London: Penguin, 2007).
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (New York: Knopf, 1980).
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, Dadirri: A Reflection (http://nextwave.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Dadirri-Inner-Deep-Listening-M-R-Ungunmerr-Bauman-Refl.pdf).
George Macdonald, ‘What the Auld Fowk are Thinkin” in The Poetical Works of George Macdonald (Gloucester: Dodo Press, 2007).
Alexander Gray, ‘December Gloaming’ in Gossip – A Book of New Poems (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1928).
P. G. Wodehouse, Blandings Castle (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1935).
William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art (London: Ellis and White, 1882).
William Wordsworth, ‘To the Cuckoo’, in Lyrical Ballads, ed. Michael Mason (London: Routledge, Longman Annotated English Poets, 2007).
John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, in John Keats: The Complete Poems, ed. John Barnard (London: Penguin Classics, 1977).
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, tr. Richard Crawley (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7142/7142-h/7142-h.htm).
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, ‘Semester at Sea’ lecture, 2007, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWZHx9DJR-M).
Speech at Memorial Service for Nelson Mandela (Johannesburg, 2013).
William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1, Act V, Scene i.
Professor Susan Fiske and Mina Cikara, ‘Their pain, our pleasure: stereotype content and schadenfreude’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1299, September 2013.
Brian Taylor, report on Holyrood election 2007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/election07/scotland/2007/05/ah_bourach.html).