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Who are the people Isaac Watts is talking about in “Improvement of the Mind”?
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Young adult fantasy book about a girl with gray eyes and powers related to metal
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Meaning of Greek concepts on omniscience in Amélie Nothomb's Soif
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Where does Emma Woodhouse’s family fortune come from?
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Sentient manta rays living in Jupiter?
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Who introduced the sonnet to English literature? Wyatt or Shakespeare?
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Classics published in the language of the author [closed]
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Who or what is the subject of Andrea Bocelli's “Gloria the Gift of Life”?
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What does this passage from a novel mean
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In how many ways can you interpret this haiku poem? [closed]
Awarded Jun 26 at 6:11
Who is Tich Miller? What has happened to her? Why was this poem written about her?
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Identification of an American comics strip about mathematically shaped pancakes
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How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without discussing how to deal with Smaug?
Awarded Jun 20 at 12:37
The Winter's Tale, Act 2 scene 3, lines 104-108. What do these lines mean?
Awarded Jun 17 at 15:57
What is the book that has an abandoned DeSoto in it along with two raccoons?
Awarded Jun 17 at 14:30
What attracted Howard Roark to Dominique in The Fountainhead?
Awarded Jun 15 at 21:20
Who was Mrs B.Lewis?
Awarded Jun 15 at 17:06
If I find a book by Nietzsche, how do I know if it's Friedrich's original work, and not work that was edited by his nazi sister, Elisabeth?
Awarded Jun 14 at 14:31
Meaning of “What important truth…?” in “Zero to One”
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Short story about humans that portrays them as savages
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What does “savage breast” mean in the Congreve quote?
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In what story of Régnier does a man commit suicide without understanding the reason?
Awarded Jun 8 at 22:45
Why are only some characters in Petrushevskaya's Hygiene given names?
Awarded Jun 7 at 11:40
Why is there an odd use of question marks in Lord of the Flies?
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What story is the idea that it's better to pick a small box rather than a large one from?
Awarded May 30 at 19:07
Is this a plot hole in “Gone girl”?
Awarded May 29 at 18:49
How to interpret this “temptation”?
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Trying to find a story of a man who strapped a magnet to his forehead, has visions
Awarded May 28 at 17:07
On a quote of Hegel in L'été (Summer) of Camus
Awarded May 26 at 7:50
Two Interpretations of Robert Herrick's “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
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What is the narrative type used in “Harry Potter” called?
Awarded May 22 at 7:08
Bad Grammar in The Great Gatsby?
Awarded May 20 at 15:52
“The Apple Tree” ending and the meaning behind it
Awarded May 13 at 19:34
What are the “animal heads of the flowers” in Allen Ginsberg's Transcription of Organ Music?
Awarded May 11 at 21:35
In the “Murder On The Links” by Agatha Christie, how is the murderer able to dig the grave?
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Agatha Christie: some questions about The Hollow
Awarded May 10 at 22:37
Story about a beached fishing boat and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Awarded May 6 at 15:21
Secondary literature on “The Warden of the Tomb”
Awarded May 3 at 16:46
What does “after something had really happened” mean in this G. K. Chesterton story?
Awarded May 3 at 15:04
Where are the Rosicrucian Original Texts in Latin or German (online or offline)?
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Bewilderment at “not the smallest atom stirs …” in “Moby-Dick”
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How did they happen to find the cipher in “The Hollow Needle”?
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Author of books about Mexican guru
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Where in Alessandro Manzoni's the Betrothed are the scenes with priests ministering to plague victims?
Awarded Apr 26 at 3:33
What does Lady Macbeth mean by “what thou art promised”?
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“On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in Society” by Thomas Carlyle
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Meaning of “glimpses of the moon” in “Hamlet”
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1 Henry IV Act 5, Scene 3: “God keep the lead out of me”
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Origin of the title of “La Dragontea” by Lope de Vega?
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How to Improve Reading Abilities
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Short story in which notorious safe-cracker retires but has to use old tools to save girl's life
Awarded Apr 13 at 11:25
What does “in the Ring” mean in “Because I could not stop for Death”?
Awarded Apr 9 at 3:25
Context and meaning of “in the Lady Bracknell understanding of the word”
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Keats' views on beauty
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Brodsky's “two-liner” in his essay “Less than One”
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What was the play 5-10 years ago where all the dialogue consisted of generic words describing what might be said
Awarded Apr 6 at 12:40
Why does Dogberry use malapropisms in Much Ado About Nothing?
Awarded Apr 6 at 10:40
Where did French writer Céline get his pen name from?
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What’s up with the coal in “Asterix and the Chieftain’s Shield”?
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Book where all the characters are named after chess pieces
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