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'
Boxer (dog) breeds. "Bier" (beer) probably refers to the "Biergarten", the typical Munich beergarden, an open-air restaurant where people used to take their dogs along. The nickname "Deutscher Boxer" was derived from "bierboxer" and Boxer could also be a corruption of the former or a contraction of the latter. A passage from the book "The Complete Boxer" by Milo G Denlinger states: "Boxer" is also the name of a dog owned by "John Peerybingle", the main character in the best-selling 1845 book "The Cricket on the Hearth" by Charles Dickens, which is evidence that "Boxer" was commonly used as a dog name