Literature Beta

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What is the English name for “Bilbo Secker”, and why is Bilbo Baggins apparently “alternatively” called that?
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Why does the narrator in Tagore's story call the Cabuliwallah's daughter “Parbati”?
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What does it mean to declare “on a weak red suit”?
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What did Shakespeare mean in King Richard III when he said that ‘G’ Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be?
Awarded 2 days ago
What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of “burglar”?
Awarded Oct 26 at 12:05
What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of “burglar”?
Awarded Oct 26 at 1:05
What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of “burglar”?
Awarded Oct 25 at 20:10
What does “It is not meet” mean in “Idylls of the King”?
Awarded Oct 22 at 20:05
In the Brothers Karamazov, did Dostoyevsky take those characters out of real life?
Awarded Oct 20 at 17:03
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Awarded Oct 19 at 20:17
Did Saruman exclusively want to mess with the Hobbits in the end of the third book?
Awarded Oct 18 at 18:57
Why wasn't O'Brien considered a thought criminal?
Awarded Oct 15 at 15:43
What is the trope known in Russian as “speaking name” called in English?
Awarded Oct 14 at 23:41
How could Merry know about who “Sharkey” was just before he showed up in end of The Return of the King?
Awarded Oct 14 at 18:12
What does Victor Hugo mean by “the red ant heaps of Toulon”?
Awarded Oct 13 at 18:42
Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?
Awarded Oct 13 at 10:11
Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?
Awarded Oct 12 at 21:33
Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?
Awarded Oct 12 at 21:33
Where is the “unborable” quote in The Pale King?
Awarded Oct 11 at 0:15
Examples of Zeus's Immoral Nature
Awarded Oct 10 at 21:56
Why did Shams refuse to sleep with Kimya?
Awarded Oct 9 at 19:51
What was the ethnicity of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?
Awarded Oct 7 at 11:27
What is a Pehliva?
Awarded Oct 5 at 16:00
How much of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is based on real events?
Awarded Oct 4 at 21:20
Looking for a story about a boy deformed by factory work - I think it's an O. Henry
Awarded Sep 29 at 10:01
Looking for a historical fiction book set in England, possibly about the War of the Roses
Awarded Sep 28 at 20:32
What did Gray mean by “where ignorance is bliss,'tis folly to be wise”?
Awarded Sep 27 at 14:05
What are the “garment thin” and the “prize” in the song “The Ballad of the Shape of Things to Come”?
Awarded Sep 26 at 15:32
Torah is written without vowels?
Awarded Sep 25 at 12:17
A book by an American ex-spy who took part in the Panama canal-related coup
Awarded Sep 24 at 7:12
What errand did Gollum think that the hobbits have in Mordor with the Ring?
Awarded Sep 23 at 7:06
Where are Greenfield and Silver City in The Boxcar Children?
Awarded Sep 22 at 2:07
Short Story with “All Odd Numbers Are Prime” Joke
Awarded Sep 21 at 10:09
Looking for the author of a story about a tourist who got a tattoo from a renowned artist
Awarded Sep 20 at 7:17
Isn't Gríma Wormtongue a very revealing name?
Awarded Sep 19 at 9:46
Torah is written without vowels?
Awarded Sep 19 at 6:51
Was the title “The Lord of the Rings” picked on purpose to be ambiguous?
Awarded Sep 18 at 17:47
Why is the not-so-wicked Which called Faintly Macabre?
Awarded Sep 18 at 17:18
Why is Szymborska's “Tarsier” sometimes written (in translation) with simplistic grammar?
Awarded Sep 17 at 0:08
What does stanza 4 of Defeat by Kahlil Gibran mean?
Awarded Sep 14 at 20:25
Why the word “sootikin” in a children's poem “Choosing Their Names”?
Awarded Sep 13 at 8:36
What is the meaning of “dole cheque” in the following context?
Awarded Sep 9 at 17:36
Meaning of “bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!”
Awarded Sep 7 at 18:26
Meaning of “bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!”
Awarded Sep 7 at 14:25
How relevant is the Atreides' link to Agamemnon in 'Dune'?
Awarded Sep 4 at 13:36
Book about young S.W.A.T. agent that falls in love with a woman that has a child (Wattpad)
Awarded Sep 3 at 20:11
How old was Tatiana during the main events of “Eugene Onegin”?
Awarded Sep 3 at 3:25
In which order should the Sherlock Holmes stories be read?
Awarded Sep 1 at 2:08
Significance of the Phoenician Sailor having pearls for eyes in The Waste Land
Awarded Sep 1 at 1:58
Significance of the Phoenician Sailor having pearls for eyes in The Waste Land
Awarded Sep 1 at 1:58
How did the dwarves possibly “dig out” gigantic hallways in the mountains to create Moria with such “primitive” technology?
Awarded Aug 28 at 20:55
What ticked off Soviet bosses about “Inhabited Island”?
Awarded Aug 28 at 9:56
Does “trampling” mean “violence” or “attack” in “The Touchstone”?
Awarded Aug 27 at 3:03
Does Théoden actually say that he misses Gríma (his “old advisor”) at one point in The Two Towers?
Awarded Aug 26 at 21:42
Does Théoden actually say that he misses Gríma (his “old advisor”) at one point in The Two Towers?
Awarded Aug 26 at 21:42
What are the 'holy' and 'broken' Hallelujahs?
Awarded Aug 25 at 17:52
What does “balks account” mean in Walt Whitman's “I Sing the Body Electric”?
Awarded Aug 24 at 21:21
Understanding the second section of first part of Burnt Norton by T.S. Eliot
Awarded Aug 22 at 3:11
Does Rush's “Tom Sawyer” promote an anti-religious view?
Awarded Aug 20 at 17:49
Was the pun on the word 'reading' intentional in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”?
Awarded Aug 19 at 11:10
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