List of Quoted Works

authors’ names beginning with “W”

Alice Walker   (*1944)

• The Color Purple   (1982)
• Kindred Spirits
• [Dear Nettie, I Don’t Write to God No More, I Write to You]   [= a chapter in The Color Purple   (Wash. Square Press 1983; pp. 175-9)]   (1982)

Neale Donald Walsch   (*19..; see author’s homepage)

• Conversations with God I   (1995)
• Conversations with God II   (1997)
• Conversations with God III   (1998)
  •   chapter 6 – full text   [44 KB]
• Friendship with God   (2000)
• Communion with God   (2000)
  • commentary on Communion with God   (2002)   [ external link ]
    •   Part One – full text   [ 24 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
    •   Part Two – full text   [ 19 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
    •   Part Three – full text   [ 18 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
• The New Revelations   (2002)
  • The New Revelations: Talking Points   (2002)
    •   full text   [10 KB]
• Beingness to Doingness   (2002)
  •   full text   [10 KB]
• Fear: The Great Attractor   (2002)
  •   full text   [8 KB]
• Is There Negativity in Wanting?   (2002)
  •   full text   [9 KB]
• Seizing Your Moment of Grace   [= final chapter of Communion with God]   (2000)
  •   full text   [14 KB]
• What Is Humility?   (2002)
  •   full text   [7 KB]
• [interviewed on CNN’s Larry King Live]   (2000)
  •   full text   [53 KB]
• [mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: a, b]

Martin Walser   (*1927)

• Mein Riesen-Problem

Robert Walser   (1878–1956)

• Brief eines Dichters

Austin Warren

• (& René Wellek)   Theory of Literature   (1949)
• [quoted by Austin Warren]

Robert Penn Warren   (1905–1989)

• The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen

Evelyn Waugh   (1903–1966)

• The Loved One   (1948)
• Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing

Frank Wedekind   (1864–1918)

• Die Schutzimpfung

Peter Weiß   (1916–1982)

• Abschied

René Wellek   (1903–19..)

• (& Austin Warren)   Theory of Literature   (1949)
• [quoted by René Wellek]

H. G. Wells   (1866–1946)

• The Magic Shop

Franz Werfel   (1890–1945)

• Die Geliebte

Edith Wharton   (1862–1937)

• The Dilettante

E. B. White   (1899–1985)

• (& William Strunk Jr.)   The Elements of Style   (1935/1972:iii)
• The Door
• The Hour of Letdown
• Introduction   [to The Elements of Style]   (1972)
• [quoted by E. B. White]

Walt Whitman   (1819–1892)

• Leaves of Grass   (1855–1891/2)
• [various]

Oscar Wilde   (1854–1900)

• The Picture of Dorian Gray   (1891)
• The Importance of Being Earnest   (1895)
• [a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations]

Billy Wilder   (1906–2002)

• [various]

Thornton Wilder   (1897–1975)

• The Warship

Joy Williams   (*19..)

• The Yard Boy

Tennessee Williams   (1911–1983)

• The Glass Menagerie   (1945)
• A Streetcar Named Desire   (1947)

William Carlos Williams   (1883–1963)

• The Use of Force

P. G. Wodehouse   (1881–1975)

• The Inimitable Jeeves   (1923)
• Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend

Gabriele Wohmann   (*1932)

• Sonntag bei den Kreisands

Herman Wouk   (*1915)

• The Aesthetic Evening of Tom Colwell

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