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What are these letters in unicode?
Awarded Dec 1 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 at 12:40
Did Ezra Pound write something like “The word communicates the thought, the tone the emotions”?
Awarded Nov 19 at 21:25
Short story where a king uses a tiger to punish the accused
Awarded Nov 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 at 15:05
Looking for a story about a Confederate leader in the US civil war
Awarded Nov 18 at 16:25
How to understand “made a picture” and “dates can work out”?
Awarded Nov 17 at 11:25
Trying to find a comic strip about “What your clothes say about you”
Awarded Nov 10 at 8:30
Trying to find a particular anecdote about programming [closed]
Awarded Nov 6 at 21:30
Story about siblings crossing the United States on foot
Awarded Nov 5 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 at 0:00
Was Afghanistan considered tropical or was Holmes wrong?
Awarded Nov 2 at 4:00
What young adult series involved a club of boys who bought a submarine?
Awarded Oct 31 at 11:50
Does anybody know where the Hemingway reference is located in The Deer Park?
Awarded Oct 30 at 0:30
What's the meaning of the last two sentences in Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3?
Awarded Oct 24 at 21:20
Meaning of the prose of Monsieur Jourdain
Awarded Oct 24 at 18:40
Is there a math mistake in Moby Dick Chapter 99?
Awarded Oct 22 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 at 1:15
Meaning/translation of title “The Light Fantastic” by Terry Pratchett
Awarded Sep 30 at 5:05
In Master and Commander, why is the cook told to put his pans upside down?
Awarded Sep 25 at 17:35
What is the symbolism of the Western Wind (or Zephyr)?
Awarded Sep 24 at 16:35
An Indian man retires to become a hermit
Awarded Sep 23 at 10:45
Trying to find: Short story: Boy meets a man who is about to hang himself
Awarded Sep 22 at 4:15
What did H. G. Wells mean by “Manifestly their line lay straight along the lane to the sea”?
Awarded Sep 15 at 17:20
What is the source of “You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love” (Shakespeare?)
Awarded Sep 14 at 19:45
Is Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's poem 'The Camel Rider' really a translation?
Awarded Sep 11 at 8:35
Vision of the future in Max Beerbohm's “Enoch Soames”
Awarded Sep 6 at 9:55
Difference between “Ode to” and “Ode on”?
Awarded Sep 5 at 10:00
Looking for a quote from 1984 about the party's immortality vs personal mortality
Awarded Sep 4 at 22:05
Short story about Gentlemen being told a tale by a young woman
Awarded Sep 2 at 13:25
What was Septimus Warren Smith's rank?
Awarded Aug 31 at 18:40
Who is Thomas o' Becket" in Tristram Shandy?
Awarded Aug 25 at 13:40
Origin of “give a watermelon a pure fit” in “Blood Meridian”
Awarded Aug 21 at 17:05
Russian children's book about a boy's first train journey
Awarded Aug 21 at 10:35
Help understanding this quote/hymn by Isaac Watts
Awarded Aug 19 at 21:05
In 'Pride and Prejudice',why was Mary's performance bad compared to Elizabeth's?
Awarded Aug 19 at 18:10
Does someone know the “Moment of Ljewin” in Anna Karenina?
Awarded Aug 19 at 11:00
Searching for an Illustrated Children's Book with Animal Characters
Awarded Aug 19 at 6:05
How can “Death be not proud” be related to the areas of exploration?
Awarded Aug 13 at 18:40
How much did Lombard know about the murders in “And Then There Where None”?
Awarded Aug 13 at 10:35
“Remembrance Day” in “Jude the Obscure”
Awarded Aug 6 at 11:35
“Just William” story in which school choir is mistaken for wolves
Awarded Aug 5 at 11:50
In the short story “Should Wizard hit Mommy” by John Updike,what is the author conveying through his narrated story and contradicting actions
Awarded Aug 5 at 7:35
Why does Mr Darcy immediately suspect Mrs Gardiner of telling Elizabeth of his hand in marrying Lydia?
Awarded Aug 4 at 18:35
If Hamlet, being a prince, outranked Horatio, why did he address him as “sir”?
Awarded Jul 31 at 21:35
What is the meaning of Samuel Butler's eulogy beginning “I fall asleep”?
Awarded Jul 25 at 0:30
What is The Princess Bride's “reunion scene” that you had to write to the publisher for?
Awarded Jul 24 at 2:05
00s (or latterly) novel which talk about a boy trying to survive in the jungle after a plane crash into a lake
Awarded Jul 24 at 0:10
Complicated name features in Wuthering Heights
Awarded Jul 20 at 23:15
About the role of Lizaveta in Crime and Punishment
Awarded Jul 20 at 13:25
How did Pilate order Judas' death in Master and Margarita?
Awarded Jul 19 at 16:20
An expression 'temporary absolution' from Maupassant's 'Confession'
Awarded Jul 14 at 3:20
Looking for a short story about a person whose conversations run from A to Z
Awarded Jul 10 at 19:45
Description of a character in 'War and peace'
Awarded Jul 9 at 13:25
How long had Bertha Mason been in the attic at the point of the events in Jane Eyre
Awarded Jul 1 at 18:30
What is the text Ivan refers to in the preface to the Grand Inquisitor
Awarded Jul 1 at 18:25
Difference between the two editions of “Great Books of the Western World”
Awarded Jun 19 at 1:05
Albert Thibaudet and the Geneva School?
Awarded Jun 18 at 15:50
UK comedy book about a man falsely accused of murder while his wife is off with the new neighbours
Awarded Jun 11 at 18:15
In “Candide”, are Prussian officers recruiting for the Bulgarian army?
Awarded Jun 10 at 14:25
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