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Story about a seventeen-year-old immortal who lives up to present events
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What is meant by "descent of their last end"?
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Analysis of "While I speak God's law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering."
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Did T.S. Eliot really plagiarize in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
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What does this passage mean from Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"?
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Parody of Lewis Carroll's parody, "You are old, Father William"
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What does Browning's patriot mean by "Paid by the world, what dost thou owe"?
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Are these actually first editions?
Awarded Oct 12 at 21:20
Should I read the original text or the guide to the text first?
Awarded Oct 11 at 12:43
Is there a name for the narrative technique of starting at the end and then going back to the beginning? (As in Lord Jim)
Awarded Oct 10 at 22:16
What does "nada y pues nada" mean in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?
Awarded Oct 3 at 20:25
Why can't Harry Potter see the threstrals in the books before the fifth?
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What does "mirror in my bathroom" mean?
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What are these pink papers with book text written on them?
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Did Dostoevsky say “While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”?
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What is the opposite of deus ex machina?
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What do these two segments mean in Milton's "On Shakespeare"?
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"Forever unfulfillable, yet him fulfilling who hears it, utterly"
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What does "a sort of Hercules in strength and weakness" mean?
Awarded Sep 17 at 23:42
Which adaptation of Richard II the John of Gaunt's speech played in Tom Hiddleston's Jaguar Commercial at the beginning comes from?
Awarded Sep 16 at 2:35
Standard text for "Tristan and Isolde"
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What exactly drove Humbert’s preference for preteens?
Awarded Sep 14 at 12:43
How do Pierre and Natasha "lie to each other" in 'War and Peace'?
Awarded Sep 13 at 17:26
Is there a consistent set of messages that run throughout the works of Thomas Pynchon?
Awarded Sep 13 at 6:35
Young-readers book of short-stories from 1960s or 70s - "Teenaged Millionaire"?
Awarded Sep 12 at 11:41
Which book had a character read 1001 Arabian Nights for extra credit?
Awarded Sep 9 at 15:16
What are the 1001 stories in One Thousand and One Nights?
Awarded Sep 8 at 13:16
What did Hemingway mean by "the setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish"?
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What is the meaning of "I was living my own metaphor"?
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Meaning of "drew the lower jaw in" from "To Build A Fire"
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What did Robert Frost mean in his April 7 1926 letter to B.F. Skinner?
Awarded Sep 1 at 17:52
From which book or essay are these words by Ralph Waldo Emerson? "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year..."
Awarded Aug 30 at 13:20
How Did Aldous Huxley Know So Much About Music?
Awarded Aug 18 at 21:17
Meaning of "She impressed me neither favorably nor the reverse."
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Why is Roald Dahl's short story called "Nunc Dimittis"?
Awarded Aug 18 at 1:42
Did Tess finally know that Alec was not a d'Urberville?
Awarded Aug 16 at 5:27
Young adult 80s novel about second coming of Christ as a horny teenage boy
Awarded Aug 15 at 21:42
What is the Distracted Preacher never anxious to do in this long sentence?
Awarded Aug 11 at 21:10
"The Gift of the Magi" Literary Analysis: Symbolism and Time
Awarded Aug 6 at 0:21
A book from the 80s/90s with a stage magician and a couple women
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90s retelling of Twelfth Night set in Internet chatrooms
Awarded Jul 28 at 13:51
Shakespeare King Henry IV Part 1: What is the "money joke" in these lines?
Awarded Jul 27 at 23:48
Iambic pentameter and mono syllables [closed]
Awarded Jul 26 at 18:36
Full English or French online translation of "De pugna avium"
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In "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", what is the joke about "Mice"?
Awarded Jul 22 at 16:41
In Agatha Christie's "Third Girl" how exactly does this murder work?
Awarded Jul 22 at 15:10
Short story about secret spy betrayed at a secret party, boss got stuck in trap while looking for files
Awarded Jul 19 at 12:56
Why did Gatsby say "This is a terrible mistake" in "The Great Gatsby"?
Awarded Jul 17 at 1:30
What does Camus mean by this sentence?
Awarded Jul 16 at 5:36
What is meant by the word "cumfarting" in the 1742 English novel "Joseph Andrews"?
Awarded Jul 11 at 17:10
How do I analyze the stress/unstress in this Stephen King based novel?
Awarded Jul 10 at 6:03
What do "21B.19" and "25A.162A" mean in these references in an Oxford book list?
Awarded Jul 8 at 15:25
Mrs Bennet excluded from Pemberley?
Awarded Jul 7 at 20:50
Fantasy series where magic is connected to astronomical objects
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What Tolkien essentially means by "Fall, Mortality and The Machine"?
Awarded Jul 4 at 12:27
Original Russian text of this review of Crime and Punishment
Awarded Jul 2 at 20:31
Is there a difference between Russian and English speaking cultures in the sense of rhythm when reciting poetry?
Awarded Jun 23 at 12:31
Understanding and interpreting Yeats phases of the moon
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Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”?
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A detective story about money printing
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