Diogenes the main character in its sequel, "Kushiel's Justice". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Villette" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern". In Christopher Moore's "", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book "Possum Living". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'
Diogenes Idiot". In Cervantes' short story "The Man of Glass" ("El licenciado Vidriera"), part of the "Novelas Ejemplares" collection, the (anti-)hero unaccountably begins to channel Diogenes in a string of tart "chreiai" once he becomes convinced that he is made of glass. Diogenes gives his own life and opinions in Christoph Martin Wieland's novel "Socrates Mainomenos" (1770; English translation "Socrates Out of His Senses", 1771). Diogenes is the primary model for the philosopher Didactylos in Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods". He is mimicked by a beggar-spy in Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Scion" and paid tribute to with a costume in a party by