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Identify rhetorical/stylistic device in Tanpınar's The Time Regulation Institute
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Looking for the author of a story about a tourist who got a tattoo from a renowned artist
Awarded 7 hours ago
Torah is written without vowels?
Awarded 23 hours ago
What is meant here by “Did you…”?
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In Pride and Prejudice, how did Lady Catherine find out about Darcy's proposal?
Awarded Sep 17 at 12:18
What does the Idiom “pound of flesh” mean to “Shylock”? Was this a sense of humor of Shylock?
Awarded Sep 17 at 12:05
What's the source of Michelangelo's quote: “Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”?
Awarded Sep 17 at 2:45
Where can I locate the letter J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to A.A. Milne?
Awarded Sep 15 at 21:58
What did Dante mean by “Papè Satan, papè Satan aleppe” in the Inferno?
Awarded Sep 14 at 0:58
Detective story where a loophole in the US extradition law is used to avoid trial
Awarded Sep 13 at 21:18
Short Story About a Man Slowly Dying From Internal Injury
Awarded Sep 13 at 16:20
Identify a story about the kid who waves at the train
Awarded Sep 13 at 6:05
Did Julian Huxley write a poem about an axolotl, and if so, what was it?
Awarded Sep 13 at 4:17
What does “Fills now my cup” mean?
Awarded Sep 10 at 11:21
Who is “Dao” in this quote from Laozi's Tao Te Ching?
Awarded Sep 9 at 16:27
What does this quote in Don Juan by Lord Byron mean? “Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady”
Awarded Sep 9 at 1:46
Why is “The Vanishing Half” set in Louisiana?
Awarded Sep 8 at 14:33
Book about young S.W.A.T. agent that falls in love with a woman that has a child (Wattpad)
Awarded Sep 7 at 6:55
Where did Keats write “wrinkled brow and sneer of cold command”?
Awarded Sep 7 at 4:37
Why are some recently published book available on paper format but not on ebook?
Awarded Sep 4 at 13:02
I am having trouble understanding a passage from “Pride And Prejudice”
Awarded Sep 3 at 12:42
What was the case where Sherlock answers Watson's private thoughts?
Awarded Sep 1 at 22:56
What is the meaning of “dole cheque” in the following context?
Awarded Aug 25 at 9:04
Trying to identify the source of a Roman short story about a senator and a slave
Awarded Aug 23 at 18:06
Did Maugham originally write in French or English?
Awarded Aug 23 at 6:15
Why does Khushwant Singh's grandmother consider music as a 'monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk'?
Awarded Aug 20 at 7:46
Are Barnes & Noble editions of public domain works of reliable quality?
Awarded Aug 19 at 20:05
Was Mark Twain a racist?
Awarded Aug 19 at 10:20
What book involved forging one of the United States' founding documents?
Awarded Aug 14 at 19:40
Story about someone who inconveniences themself in order to maintain awareness of every moment of their life
Awarded Aug 7 at 13:48
What is “the poem” that the spider refers to in Philip Dick's short story “Expendable”?
Awarded Aug 4 at 11:41
Where did Camus define “the novel as the place where the human being is abandoned to other human beings”?
Awarded Jul 31 at 13:19
Post modernist fantasy with nested stories structure
Awarded Jul 29 at 13:05
For and Against different Reading Orders for Narnia
Awarded Jul 27 at 10:12
Hot Cross Bun Paradox
Awarded Jul 24 at 7:49
What does Hanns Heinz Ewers mean in this quote about Edgar Allan Poe?
Awarded Jul 22 at 16:56
Info about “Wisdom is One” by Benjamin Williams Huntsman?
Awarded Jul 22 at 16:05
What does it mean to “die game”?
Awarded Jul 15 at 13:34
Who are the people Isaac Watts is talking about in “Improvement of the Mind”?
Awarded Jul 12 at 17:31
Young adult fantasy book about a girl with gray eyes and powers related to metal
Awarded Jul 7 at 22:56
Meaning of Greek concepts on omniscience in Amélie Nothomb's Soif
Awarded Jul 3 at 8:47
Where does Emma Woodhouse’s family fortune come from?
Awarded Jun 29 at 1:18
Sentient manta rays living in Jupiter?
Awarded Jun 28 at 21:25
Who introduced the sonnet to English literature? Wyatt or Shakespeare?
Awarded Jun 28 at 16:16
Classics published in the language of the author [closed]
Awarded Jun 28 at 14:41
Who or what is the subject of Andrea Bocelli's “Gloria the Gift of Life”?
Awarded Jun 28 at 0:35
What does this passage from a novel mean
Awarded Jun 26 at 17:56
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?
Awarded Jun 23 at 17:07
Identification of an American comics strip about mathematically shaped pancakes
Awarded Jun 21 at 18:10
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”
Awarded Jun 13 at 11:52
Short story about humans that portrays them as savages
Awarded Jun 12 at 3:02
What does “savage breast” mean in the Congreve quote?
Awarded Jun 11 at 16:28
In what story of Régnier does a man commit suicide without understanding the reason?
Awarded Jun 8 at 22:45
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