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What is the role of science in Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck"?
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If Tolkien disliked allegory, why are there so many allegorical readings of The Lord of the Rings?
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Understanding two lines from "The Wound-Dresser" by Walt Whitman
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Is A Supplement to the Journey to the West from the 17th century the oldest Chinese work of literature involving time travel?
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Was Odysseus considered unfaithful to his wife in the Odyssey?
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Why did Bob Dylan choose Highway 61 for "Highway 61 Revisited"?
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Why did Morla's eyes have a paralyzing effect on Atreyu?
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What do the letters G and D mean in "The Trout" by Sean O'Faolain?
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Confusing paragraph from the story 'Evans tries an O-level' by Colin Dexter
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In "On The Face of It" by Susan Hill, why did the author decide to kill Mr. Lamb at the end of the story?
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Why is Phyllis a "ward of chancery"?
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Why are Freud and Lacan still seen as important to literary criticism when their theories are discredited?
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Short story about chess
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What does this quote from The Great Gatsby mean?
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Why would a Ukrainian police officer speak broken Ukrainian?
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What is meant by the title "The Color of Money"?
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Is there actually such a thing as "OCR-pirated" books?
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Political Sci-Fi book from late 80's or earlier, humans getting involved in Alien tribal war
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What is the language spoken in Babylon?
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What can be gleaned from Lovecraft's usage of the words "obscene" and "blasphemous"?
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What is the Neverending Story's moral about power?
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Has the Maltese poem "Fuq Għoljiet Dingli" ("On Dingli Cliffs") by Victor Fenech been ever translated into any other language?
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What is the meaning of "Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet" and "Or breed itself so out of circumstances" in "Othello"?
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What is meant by "without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley" in A Christmas Carol?
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Where does the quote “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right” come from?
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Does Winston Smith die at the end of 1984?
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Are Tigris in The Hunger Games and Tigris in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes the same person?
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Who "dribbled a lot and wasn’t allowed anything sharp" in "Good Omens"?
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Looking for short story about a bank robbery where the lookout turned in the accomplices
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What was the first book that explicitly used "A Hero's Journey" as a checklist?
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Which traits of Milton's Lucifer from "Paradise Lost" did Neil Gaiman carry to "The Sandman"?
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"Yum yum pig's bum"
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Wife kills husband short story, NOT "Lamb to the Slaughter", where the wife giggles at the thought of killing him
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What would “before” mean here?
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Why did Archilochus affiliate the hedgehog with just knowing one big thing?
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What did Dante mean by "Papè Satan, papè Satan aleppe" in the Inferno?
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Is it known why Tolkien made Sam be Frodo's servant rather than very close and trusty friend "on equal terms"?
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How did Lusitania survive before Novinha became a xenobiologist?
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A chess scene in Medieval Knight Romance
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A chess scene in Medieval Knight Romance
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Does this passage of "A Severe Mercy" make a reference to suicide?
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What is the appearance of the protagonist in Lafferty's "All the People"?
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Why did Mama put the poison in his tea?
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Why did Mama put the poison in his tea?
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How do you report stolen library books to the library?
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Was Dostoyevsky atheist or Christian?
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What was the Line Education Movement?
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Dunedin to Samoa spoke
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Who are these crescent saints?
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Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?
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Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?
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Did William Blake intend The Tyger to resemble a nursery rhyme?
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What does Nuvoletta's disappearance signify in Finnegans Wake?
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What is the meaning of the epilogue in Blood Meridian?
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What is meant by "strength" in Anathema's "One Last Goodbye"?
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Reference to "Sensible Susan" in E. Nesbit's New Treasure Seekers?
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Why are television shows in Fahrenheit 451 interactive?
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Resources for determining the meter of a line in Shakespeare
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