Author: Stephen Clarke

Cites

• Louis XV (1)
  • IN: The Merde Factor (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The English have corrupted the mind of my kingdom. We must not expose a new generation to the risk of being perverted by their language.'
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• J. W. Goethe (1)
  • IN: The Merde Factor (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 'Die Erde hat mich wieder' ('The Earth has reclaimed me.')
    FROM: Faust, (1790), NULL, Germany
• Samuel Beckett (1)
  • IN: The Merde Factor (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Die Merde hat mich wieder.' (The merde has reclaimed me.')
    FROM: Watt, (1953), Novel, Ireland
• Jerome K. Jerome (1)
  • IN: A Year in the Merde (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done is to colour them.
    FROM: preface to Three Men in a Boat, (1909), Novel, UK
• von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1)
  • IN: Dial M for Merde (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Faust: 'Give me a week and I could seduce even an innocent young creature like her.' Mephistopheles: 'You're starting to talk like a Frenchman.'
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• Stephen Clarke (1)
  • IN: Dial M for Merde (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For legal reasons, I am obliged to stress that this novel in no way implies that the current President of France receives sexual favours from his female staff. That would be an outrageous - and totally unbelievable - allegation.
    FROM: NULL, (2008), Author, UK
• Robert Stolz (1)
  • IN: Merde Happens (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If my melodies have found a place in people's hearts, then I know I have not lived in vain.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Austria
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1)
  • IN: Merde Happens (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I'm told that America has more lunatics than any-where in the world.
    FROM: De la Démocratie en Amérique, (1835), Book, France

Cited by

• Stephen Clarke (1)
  • IN: Dial M for Merde (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For legal reasons, I am obliged to stress that this novel in no way implies that the current President of France receives sexual favours from his female staff. That would be an outrageous - and totally unbelievable - allegation.
    FROM: NULL, (2008), Author, UK