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Why is Ishmael sometimes seen as an unreliable narrator? Does he ever actually lie in the text?
Awarded 2 days ago
Thomas McElwain as Ali Haydar?
Awarded Feb 23 at 23:45
What's the meaning of “ Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity,pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good ”?
Awarded Feb 23 at 9:10
When was the Party founded?
Awarded Feb 21 at 22:35
What are the “lovely tales” in Keats' “Endymion”?
Awarded Feb 20 at 15:55
Lady sprains her ankle
Awarded Feb 12 at 15:35
Can I read “Twenty Years After” by Alexandre Dumas without reading “The Three Musketeers”?
Awarded Feb 11 at 5:20
How to understand the title “Wifey Redux”
Awarded Feb 10 at 20:45
Why did Archilochus affiliate the hedgehog with just knowing one big thing?
Awarded Feb 9 at 13:50
Identify a military-science type book where two men meet and discuss plans, realize that boats underwater are the plan in motion
Awarded Jan 31 at 12:35
Huis Clos Description of the room
Awarded Jan 22 at 6:45
Why did the gods send the flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Awarded Jan 21 at 10:20
What does “set out fair and square” mean in the text below?
Awarded Jan 20 at 23:40
What does “they were in name his subjects” mean?
Awarded Jan 20 at 8:35
Is there a consistent set of messages that run throughout the works of Thomas Pynchon?
Awarded Jan 14 at 1:00
Why is Naked Lunch by Burroughs so groundbreaking and recognized as a literary milestone by prominent authors that succeeded its publication?
Awarded Jan 11 at 6:25
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Jan 8 at 8:10
Animal Farm — silent protest?
Awarded Jan 8 at 1:35
What do you call this part of a comic book/graphic novel?
Awarded Jan 7 at 8:10
What figure of speech does “alive enough to have strength to die” by Hardy contain?
Awarded Jan 4 at 18:00
Is Strattenburg, Pennsylvania based on a real town?
Awarded Jan 3 at 14:35
Did Anne Elisabeth Stengl ever write a book under a pen name like she announced that she would? If so, what was it?
Awarded Jan 3 at 12:50
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 19:35
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 14:20
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 9:45
Some Problem about Whitman's Language
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 6:15
Why did the alexandrine become the “natural” metre for French verse drama, whereas English renaissance drama adopted the iambic pentameter?
Awarded Dec 28 '19 at 20:15
Are Lorca's “Gypsy Ballads” adapted from, or inspired by, traditional Romani songs?
Awarded Dec 18 '19 at 9:30
How many sailors from Odysseus' crew survived the Odyssey?
Awarded Dec 17 '19 at 15:50
What are all the stories left unfinished in The Neverending Story?
Awarded Dec 16 '19 at 15:55
What is the purpose of all the lists in chapter 12 of Joyce's Ulysses?
Awarded Dec 13 '19 at 9:40
What does “ceremony of innocence” mean In “The Second Coming”?
Awarded Dec 10 '19 at 9:15
What are these letters in unicode?
Awarded Dec 3 '19 at 6:15
What are these letters in unicode?
Awarded Dec 1 '19 at 15:15
What is the nature of the friendship in Don Henley's “My Thanksgiving”?
Awarded Nov 30 '19 at 20:55
Looking for story where a woman calls for help by pretending to be ordering meat over the phone or something
Awarded Nov 30 '19 at 20:10
What source did Thomas Medwin use for the argument of his translation of Prometheus Bound?
Awarded Nov 24 '19 at 8:15
Where did the idea that Frankenstein is the name of the monster come from?
Awarded Nov 22 '19 at 12:30
Why don't Mr. Bennet's daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate?
Awarded Nov 20 '19 at 4:15
Short story where a king uses a tiger to punish the accused
Awarded Nov 19 '19 at 19:10
Is Ozma a lesbian character?
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 17:25
Is it true that short stories “must” end without definite conclusions?
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 16:45
The meaning of the poem “Crucified” by Kahlil Gibran
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 16:10
In “Howl”, what does “Blake-light tragedy” mean?
Awarded Nov 14 '19 at 18:00
Which London streets mentioned in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are fictional?
Awarded Nov 10 '19 at 15:50
“Rudyard Kiplings” elegi/ i chose life
Awarded Nov 8 '19 at 13:05
A Science Fiction story in which everyone on earth has a moment of empathy
Awarded Nov 8 '19 at 7:55
What does T. S. Eliot mean in the poem The Hollow Men when he ended it with “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper”?
Awarded Nov 4 '19 at 19:25
Was Afghanistan considered tropical or was Holmes wrong?
Awarded Nov 4 '19 at 15:55
What is the meter of the poem “Snow” by Louis MacNeice?
Awarded Oct 20 '19 at 22:40
Understanding the 2018 and 2019 Nobel prizes
Awarded Oct 11 '19 at 9:50
What was the alternate ending of Agatha Christie's 'Death comes as the end'?
Awarded Oct 11 '19 at 4:35
If Hamlet, being a prince, outranked Horatio, why did he address him as “sir”?
Awarded Oct 8 '19 at 12:20
What's the significance of Liza-Lu?
Awarded Oct 6 '19 at 18:35
What does Neruda mean when he says ‘Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel Ray.’?
Awarded Oct 6 '19 at 15:55
Meaning/translation of title “The Light Fantastic” by Terry Pratchett
Awarded Oct 2 '19 at 4:30
Interpretation of “The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger
Awarded Sep 28 '19 at 10:35
Trying to find: Short story: Boy meets a man who is about to hang himself
Awarded Sep 19 '19 at 22:40
Did Howard Roark contradict Henry Rearden on the purpose of work?
Awarded Sep 17 '19 at 4:15
What well known phrase from “Götz von Berlichingen” is alluded to in All Quiet in the Western Front?
Awarded Sep 6 '19 at 20:05
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