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Do the witches in Macbeth ever mention “eye of bat and tongue of frog”?
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Huis Clos Description of the room
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Can three unstressed syllables constitute a substitute foot in Shakespeare?
Awarded Jan 19 at 11:25
What does “reckoning of years” mean?
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A quote supposedly by Jean de La Fontaine
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Meaning of these dialect words and phrases from Artemus Ward, “On Forts”
Awarded Jan 10 at 18:30
Meaning of “cloudless at dawn” and connection with Shakespeare's head?
Awarded Jan 10 at 15:50
What does “Do you think falsehood is less powerful than bile or a rabid dog?” mean in Marcus Aurelius's Meditations?
Awarded Jan 8 at 14:20
What does “hold” mean in this context from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Awarded Jan 8 at 8:20
meaning of 'dash about'
Awarded Jan 6 at 4:00
19th-century French “flash fiction” writer/journalist
Awarded Jan 4 at 21:40
How is it possible for Antonio to go bankrupt?
Awarded Jan 2 at 13:10
What does H. G. Wells means by “Subject Races” in The War in the Air?
Awarded Dec 31 '19 at 22:40
Conclusion of 'The Trial for Murder' by Charles Dickens
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 14:20
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 3:30
Meaning of “dactylis” in O. Henry’s “The Trimmed Lamp”
Awarded Dec 27 '19 at 16:35
Who ran the small errands in 19th century London?
Awarded Dec 25 '19 at 19:50
Who was Wodehouse’s intended audience for Jeeves and Wooster?
Awarded Dec 19 '19 at 16:45
Short Story: Duel between a magical creature and a master accountant
Awarded Dec 19 '19 at 13:50
Short story identification: Color of the Taj Mahal, mother says “Death rides a fast horse behind me”
Awarded Dec 15 '19 at 20:35
What are these letters in unicode?
Awarded Dec 1 '19 at 15:20
What does it mean to say “the future of the English language is grand but as far as its literature is concerned it seems bleak”?
Awarded Nov 26 '19 at 12:40
Did Ezra Pound write something like “The word communicates the thought, the tone the emotions”?
Awarded Nov 19 '19 at 21:25
Short story where a king uses a tiger to punish the accused
Awarded Nov 19 '19 at 18:10
Trying to find a book from my childhood in UK, a collection of stories, one story a page, characters were all Rabbits
Awarded Nov 19 '19 at 15:05
Looking for a story about a Confederate leader in the US civil war
Awarded Nov 18 '19 at 16:25
How to understand “made a picture” and “dates can work out”?
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 11:25
Trying to find a comic strip about “What your clothes say about you”
Awarded Nov 10 '19 at 8:30
Trying to find a particular anecdote about programming [closed]
Awarded Nov 6 '19 at 21:30
Story about siblings crossing the United States on foot
Awarded Nov 5 '19 at 12:40
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 5 '19 at 0:00
Was Afghanistan considered tropical or was Holmes wrong?
Awarded Nov 2 '19 at 4:00
What young adult series involved a club of boys who bought a submarine?
Awarded Oct 31 '19 at 11:50
Does anybody know where the Hemingway reference is located in The Deer Park?
Awarded Oct 30 '19 at 0:30
What's the meaning of the last two sentences in Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3?
Awarded Oct 24 '19 at 21:20
Meaning of the prose of Monsieur Jourdain
Awarded Oct 24 '19 at 18:40
Is there a math mistake in Moby Dick Chapter 99?
Awarded Oct 22 '19 at 14:05
What does it mean when Ralph is thinking about Piggy's death in Lord of the Flies by Golding
Awarded Oct 22 '19 at 1:15
Meaning/translation of title “The Light Fantastic” by Terry Pratchett
Awarded Sep 30 '19 at 5:05
In Master and Commander, why is the cook told to put his pans upside down?
Awarded Sep 25 '19 at 17:35
What is the symbolism of the Western Wind (or Zephyr)?
Awarded Sep 24 '19 at 16:35
An Indian man retires to become a hermit
Awarded Sep 23 '19 at 10:45
Trying to find: Short story: Boy meets a man who is about to hang himself
Awarded Sep 22 '19 at 4:15
What did H. G. Wells mean by “Manifestly their line lay straight along the lane to the sea”?
Awarded Sep 15 '19 at 17:20
What is the source of “You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love” (Shakespeare?)
Awarded Sep 14 '19 at 19:45
Is Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's poem 'The Camel Rider' really a translation?
Awarded Sep 11 '19 at 8:35
Vision of the future in Max Beerbohm's “Enoch Soames”
Awarded Sep 6 '19 at 9:55
Difference between “Ode to” and “Ode on”?
Awarded Sep 5 '19 at 10:00
Looking for a quote from 1984 about the party's immortality vs personal mortality
Awarded Sep 4 '19 at 22:05
Short story about Gentlemen being told a tale by a young woman
Awarded Sep 2 '19 at 13:25
What was Septimus Warren Smith's rank?
Awarded Aug 31 '19 at 18:40
Who is Thomas o' Becket" in Tristram Shandy?
Awarded Aug 25 '19 at 13:40
Origin of “give a watermelon a pure fit” in “Blood Meridian”
Awarded Aug 21 '19 at 17:05
Russian children's book about a boy's first train journey
Awarded Aug 21 '19 at 10:35
Help understanding this quote/hymn by Isaac Watts
Awarded Aug 19 '19 at 21:05
In 'Pride and Prejudice',why was Mary's performance bad compared to Elizabeth's?
Awarded Aug 19 '19 at 18:10
Does someone know the “Moment of Ljewin” in Anna Karenina?
Awarded Aug 19 '19 at 11:00
Searching for an Illustrated Children's Book with Animal Characters
Awarded Aug 19 '19 at 6:05
How can “Death be not proud” be related to the areas of exploration?
Awarded Aug 13 '19 at 18:40
How much did Lombard know about the murders in “And Then There Where None”?
Awarded Aug 13 '19 at 10:35
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