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What are "abortive sorrows" and "short-winded elations" in "The Great Gatsby"?
Awarded Nov 28 at 3:40
What does Anthony Burgess mean about "the State is all that matters and no one has a right to hear Beethoven"?
Awarded Nov 23 at 15:03
In which C.S. Lewis essay or book chapter did he talk about the habit of using the word "we" when preaching?
Awarded Nov 15 at 13:18
What is the meaning of "melt wives into sealing wax" in Dick's "The Man in the High Castle"?
Awarded Nov 15 at 1:33
Meaning of "the field was found to be plowed as thoroughly as any young man at Oxford" in 'The Book of Dragons'
Awarded Nov 14 at 19:56
Is there a name for the literary device in the expression "Thanks, I hate it."?
Awarded Nov 14 at 1:57
Did Lord Byron fluff his Greek in his poem beginning 'Maid of Athens, ere we part'?
Awarded Nov 6 at 23:42
Why did literary critic Harold Bloom say something that didn't correspond to reality regarding Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
Awarded Nov 6 at 16:56
What essentially does Tolkien mean by "Fall, Mortality and The Machine"?
Awarded Nov 3 at 13:25
What is the "slow wheel" in Frost's "Into My Own"?
Awarded Oct 26 at 12:31
In Yuan Zhen's story ‘ Passion’, what does 14 February refer to?
Awarded Oct 24 at 19:04
What does "Yira" mean in "Yira, Yira" by Carlos Gardel?
Awarded Oct 24 at 18:17
What does "Yira" mean in "Yira, Yira" by Carlos Gardel?
Awarded Oct 24 at 18:17
In Lolita, is there any evidence that Humbert committed a second murder?
Awarded Oct 15 at 8:55
What do ‘redda', 'the taste of babat', 'Kottu Aiya', and ‘Kunu kaaraya’ mean? (From "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida")
Awarded Oct 14 at 11:36
How does That Hideous Strength show the influence of Charles Williams?
Awarded Oct 13 at 21:03
How does Emeth's presence in Aslan's Country in The Last Battle fit in with the rest of C. S. Lewis's theology?
Awarded Oct 12 at 2:45
What is the significance of Nick being gay in The Great Gatsby?
Awarded Oct 10 at 1:05
What does "nature" mean in "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"?
Awarded Oct 9 at 12:35
Why all those tangents in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables?
Awarded Oct 8 at 19:43
What is an inciting incident?
Awarded Oct 6 at 14:47
If Phileas Fogg had a clock that showed the exact date and time, why didn't he realize that he had arrived a day early?
Awarded Oct 6 at 1:41
Why is the last title in Proust's "Search For Lost Time" not consistently translated as "Time Found Again"?
Awarded Oct 5 at 0:35
What is an epic and why is there “only one epic in English Language so far”?
Awarded Oct 4 at 23:11
Is the name Crowley in Good Omens a reference to the famous occultist?
Awarded Sep 27 at 17:18
What's the meaning of "well over the fast" in the following passage?
Awarded Sep 24 at 16:40
Why did Dunbar consider a life of intentional boredom worth living?
Awarded Sep 24 at 14:30
Significance of trail of pebbles vs breadcrumbs?
Awarded Sep 21 at 17:21
Meaning of "No turban walks across the lessened floors" in Wallace Stevens' "The Plain Sense of Things"
Awarded Sep 17 at 10:07
What is Paul's character based on in "Code Name Verity"?
Awarded Sep 12 at 23:09
What point is the end of The Owl Service trying to make?
Awarded Sep 9 at 7:22
Why is Jacques Kohn wearing a "father-murderer" collar?
Awarded Aug 27 at 16:40
Can I read "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas without reading "The Three Musketeers"?
Awarded Aug 27 at 3:26
Why did Emerson choose 'hobgoblin' in his quote 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds'?
Awarded Aug 25 at 8:25
Did Jascha Heifetz really have a connection to Odessa, as suggested in Babel's 'The Awakening'?
Awarded Aug 23 at 20:19
A Regency era novel on Wattpad about a purple-eyed girl (dressed up as a boy) working as a personal valet for a lord (male lead)
Awarded Aug 21 at 15:35
Why does A Wind in the Door contradict A Wrinkle in Time on conformity?
Awarded Aug 12 at 6:34
Is there a meaning to Koroviev 's nickname?
Awarded Aug 7 at 3:42
In Lolita, is there any evidence that Humbert committed a second murder?
Awarded Jul 26 at 17:25
If Phileas Fogg had a clock that showed the exact date and time, why didn't he realize that he had arrived a day early?
Awarded Jul 25 at 0:19
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Awarded Jul 23 at 13:03
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Awarded Jul 18 at 20:51
How much French does Madame Eglentyne know?
Awarded Jul 13 at 18:40
What does Norman Maclean mean: "Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it."?
Awarded Jul 7 at 12:06
What "Irish Oath" sounds like "Thoth"?
Awarded Jul 6 at 22:47
What is the literary effect of dropping articles from titles?
Awarded Jul 6 at 8:40
What does Dostoyevsky's character's statement about Permissiveness mean for Morality in Western Civilization?
Awarded Jul 2 at 21:45
What does Gulzar actually mean by saying that Earth can hide a river inside?
Awarded Jul 1 at 18:19
What does "between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea" mean in Heart of Darkness?
Awarded Jun 29 at 15:09
Why isn't Arthur Conan Doyle considered a first-rate writer?
Awarded Jun 28 at 19:25
Meaning of "Knowing them, that’ll mean at least a year" in "Elizabeth Finch" by Julian Barnes
Awarded Jun 25 at 13:55
Who is Queen Brijeena, the subject of a famous chavittu nadakam?
Awarded Jun 22 at 17:34
Quote about the difference between talking about helping specific people and helping The People (in a political context)
Awarded Jun 20 at 3:51
Meaning/significance of "All the King's horses" in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme?
Awarded Jun 19 at 15:36
What does this passage mean from Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"?
Awarded Jun 19 at 11:31
Meaning of "She had all the colour and dynamism of a parsnip"
Awarded Jun 17 at 18:57
In Turgenev's "First Love", what did the father mean by “Vous devez vous séparer de cette.”
Awarded Jun 16 at 11:01
What's the significance of Liza-Lu?
Awarded Jun 16 at 6:51
Just finished the Martian Chronicles. "The Off Season" left me baffled
Awarded Jun 11 at 16:08
Finding the source of this quote about prediction and lying
Awarded Jun 9 at 13:02
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