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Why was Hugues de Groot also called "Grotius"?
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What is the meaning of Benjamin the donkey's cryptic answer?
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Is Barrett Emerson, portrayed in the TV series "Will", a real Christopher Marlowe patron?
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Confusing paragraph from the story 'Evans tries an O-level' by Colin Dexter
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How is "They seem to have a lot of parsons there, don’t they?” a joke?
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What does George Orwell mean with "vague reverence"?
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Old book: boy and girl co-dreaming serialised on BBC radio
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How to read "truths in Nietzsche’s sense of the word"
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What does 'diope' mean in the poem 'Pediatric Reflection' by Ogden Nash?
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Science fiction book in which a doctor treats a sociopathic child who killed her brother
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A company goes bankrupt after adopting "socialist" policies
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Dystopian short story read in US high school: boy and man travel through ancient ruins which are actually our modern-day civilisation
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Did Charlotte Bronte expect the readers of "Jane Eyre" to know French?
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Author - Title vs Title - Author when referring to a work
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Disconnected components in Yahgulanaas' "Red: A Haida Manga"
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Is there actually such a thing as "OCR-pirated" books?
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What does "fail us" mean in the book "Pachinko"?
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What does "much worse fed and lodged and treated altogether than" mean in chapter 12 from Dickens's Little Dorrit?
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Why could Banquo see the three witches?
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What does "red haze of agony" mean in "Terrified" by C. B. Gilford?
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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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Meaning of "huffle of a snail", "goat's new compass", etc. in A. A. Milne's "The Four Friends"
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Story in which a boy's mother dies, he forgets about it when at school but remembers when he arrives home?
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Which Kipling poem is this an allusion to?
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Who is 'he' in 'He has no children?'
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What is meant by "I am standing in the spirit at your elbow" in A Christmas Carol?
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What were the dimensions of the original Doré set for Paradise Lost?
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Explain the 28 Feb 2022 Dilbert cartoon use of the phrase "sticking the landing"
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Who "dribbled a lot and wasn’t allowed anything sharp" in "Good Omens"?
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Is Anna Karenina a modernist novel?
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Significance of Effi Briest's name
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Why do Ayn Rand's novels present specific, real things in a context designed to make them appear frivolous or ridiculous?
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How was the possessive used in Elizabethan literature?
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"This Is Water" David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech Fish Story Reference
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Identify Source of Quote on Running Out of Breath and Commas
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Meaning of "fist-sized clean space on his face" in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
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Reference for author of "The earth has music for those who listen"
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Short story about paranoid parents whose baby dies in the barbed wire set up to protect it
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Dunedin to Samoa spoke
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Meaning of "Beneath the water of their lives" quote by Mitch Albom
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Is there an equivalent to Orientalism in Eastern scholarship of the West?
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What is "the line children draw to represent a bird in flight"?
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Understanding "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
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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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How to scan Wyatt's "They flee from me"?
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Book about barbedwire robot guardian to space portal jumping teen?
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What is "the Throne of Mammon grey" in William Blake's "I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day"?
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Reference to "Sensible Susan" in E. Nesbit's New Treasure Seekers?
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Why does the prophecy imply Macbeth has to murder the king?
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Why didn't Mercédès marry Edmond Dantès at the end in Count of Monte Cristo?
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Short story by Maugham about writer who sells their soul to see how they are remembered in the future, but their only mention is in this very story
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Appalachia, Chicago, 1920s, Gertie, 3 year old child run over by train in rail yard
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In Mary Tighe's Psyche, what is the gemstone referred to by allusion?
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Why is there no spelling consistency in Robert Ludlum's books?
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What are "jigging veins of rhyming mother wits"?
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Short Story about several Mall Santas
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When did Macbeth kill Duncan's chamberlains?
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