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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
Awarded Jul 26 at 18:36
Full English or French online translation of “De pugna avium”
Awarded Jul 24 at 12:25
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
Awarded Jul 5 at 17:15
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
Awarded Jun 21 at 15:40
Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”?
Awarded Jun 19 at 22:52
A detective story about money printing
Awarded Jun 17 at 12:26
What does this paragraph mean in Dickens' American Notes?
Awarded Jun 16 at 17:26
Short story about a detective and criminal who disguise themselves and interact while in pursuit
Awarded Jun 15 at 21:34
Which story referenced the parable of Custer’s last stand?
Awarded Jun 11 at 6:36
What do “Free Trader” and “Protection in the Colonies” refer to in “The Thirty-Nine Steps”?
Awarded Jun 7 at 12:43
What's the meter of “Song of Young Girl” by William Lang?
Awarded Jun 6 at 12:28
Is the Erewhonian Nosnibor a satire on a real person?
Awarded Jun 3 at 8:07
A man is in court because a company wants his prostheses back
Awarded Jun 3 at 5:08
What did Robert Frost mean in his April 7 1926 letter to B.F. Skinner?
Awarded Jun 2 at 23:51
Poem-parody about O'Hare airport, written as though it were the Odyssey
Awarded Jun 2 at 13:33
What was the question which the Baudelaire orphans were asking themselves?
Awarded Jun 2 at 9:02
What do you call the “message” written before a poem?
Awarded Jun 2 at 6:42
Short British horror story about a selective, helmet-like memory eraser
Awarded Jun 1 at 17:32
Online Latin version of the “Crater Hermetis”
Awarded Jun 1 at 16:03
How could the current bear the coracle southward, if the current was northwards earlier?
Awarded Jun 1 at 13:18
What do you call the pages in a comic book/graphic novel that expand on the lore, provide biographical information or have concept art?
Awarded May 28 at 9:40
What is the difference in pronunciation between the two types of folio abbreviations: f. and ff.?
Awarded May 24 at 16:21
What does the last sentence “Better look at the oil, too” mean?
Awarded May 19 at 12:55
Why did Hamlet tell Ophelia: “Get thee to a nunnery!”?
Awarded May 17 at 18:00
How could sixty cents of $1.87 be in pennies?
Awarded May 16 at 16:05
Apostrophes at the beginning of stanzas in Byron's “The Giaour”
Awarded May 15 at 15:04
Meaning of dash and initial substitution in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
Awarded May 14 at 23:41
What happens to Fudge after he resigns?
Awarded May 13 at 14:25
What does “speed the plow” mean in David Mamet's play?
Awarded May 13 at 12:50
Meaning of the phrase “If ever a man leaped across time into the raw…”
Awarded May 5 at 9:40
What are “abortive sorrows” and “short-winded elations” in “The Great Gatsby”?
Awarded May 3 at 18:40
Why does Mr Merdle ask for a penknife with a darker handle in “Little Dorrit”?
Awarded May 2 at 11:03
Pre-2010 book: “Jaws” in a library
Awarded Apr 30 at 14:55
Journalist travels to Germany to research a WWII woman, someone named Miriam is involved
Awarded Apr 29 at 18:40
Swedish novel from 2013 on a researcher in the isolated Pårte observatory in the Sarek Mountains, Sweden
Awarded Apr 28 at 14:58
Guy-Charles Cros quoted by Osamu Dazai: “comme un crapaud contourne une pierre”
Awarded Apr 25 at 9:46
“promising with” meaning
Awarded Apr 24 at 9:30
Which schools did Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi attend?
Awarded Apr 23 at 14:06
Short story about a man condemned to death because he cannot remember the details about a country
Awarded Apr 20 at 17:58
Identify a children's story about a little girl who collected items, had a monster in the basement, and solved a dog-napping mystery!
Awarded Apr 20 at 7:52
Is there a term for epic poetry’s detailed, successive introductions of multiple characters?
Awarded Apr 15 at 8:52
Explanation of a pargraph from “Five Children and It”
Awarded Apr 13 at 18:16
“You have to take pains so the goods won't go off” from The Witcher
Awarded Apr 11 at 8:03
Why is the gesture of the rebel noble in “The Man with the Scar”?
Awarded Apr 9 at 15:10
What is the meaning of “the least bit” in these affirmative clauses by John Galsworthy?
Awarded Apr 7 at 17:11
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