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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
Identify a fiction novel about Atlantis and digital or analog “discs”
Awarded Apr 5 at 14:40
What do superscript circles mean in poetry?
Awarded Apr 5 at 3:25
King on a Boat Ride Hears a Sound, Oarsman vs. Advisor Efficiency in Determining
Awarded Apr 4 at 19:41
In The Blue Cross, what is the mailbag trick?
Awarded Apr 3 at 8:12
What meter are “I lik the bred” poems in?
Awarded Mar 25 at 11:00
English translation of “Encargo”
Awarded Mar 21 at 17:47
Where does Tomyris promise to retreat?
Awarded Mar 20 at 22:11
What might “And God, for a Frontier.” mean in “I am afraid to own a Body—”?
Awarded Mar 19 at 7:03
What kind of jeans are Sears Rough Riders?
Awarded Mar 17 at 14:21
Is there a relationship between Edward VI and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Awarded Mar 15 at 15:20
You can enter prison for reading in Belarus, why?
Awarded Mar 4 at 11:41
Children's book - girl's mother sent to jail for theft, dog and girl on cover
Awarded Feb 28 at 0:08
Meaning of “deliverance in time”
Awarded Feb 27 at 16:27
Is Raymond having an affair with Masson's wife?
Awarded Feb 25 at 19:09
Did anastrophe in English poetry have to do with French influence?
Awarded Feb 24 at 10:36
If a novel has different narrators for each chapter, is it metafictional?
Awarded Feb 23 at 16:10
Why does Mr. Pumblechook call Mrs. Joe “mum”?
Awarded Feb 21 at 15:57
What does “withal” mean in a line in Romeo and Juliet?
Awarded Feb 20 at 3:49
What is the term used for a story's narrator becoming self-aware?
Awarded Feb 18 at 12:40
Rumi's “In a slaughterhouse of love…” meaning
Awarded Feb 18 at 0:40
What is the “manhood of a Roman recovery” in John Milton's Areopagitica?
Awarded Feb 17 at 20:27
Meaning of “He went ‘Eeeeee!’ high up in his skull”
Awarded Feb 17 at 18:42
“Cease, cows, life is short” - what does it mean?
Awarded Feb 16 at 5:50
Robot Beings who are hunted for fuel who say “Toot Toot” to each other
Awarded Feb 16 at 1:10
What is it time for in Paul Celan's “Corona”?
Awarded Feb 15 at 8:43
What does “branch of Ares” mean in book II of “The Iliad”?
Awarded Feb 13 at 12:40
What figure of speech is “change of mood” in Robert Frost's “Dust of Snow”?
Awarded Feb 13 at 2:48
What is meant by the “level of feeling” with respect to the tone of a text?
Awarded Feb 11 at 18:42
What does this quatrain of Goethe's (“Gesang der Geister über den Wassern”) mean?
Awarded Feb 11 at 6:28
Story About a Boy Lost in the Wilderness
Awarded Feb 9 at 13:17
Which poem contains a phrase like "it was all done in Berlin in the thirties”
Awarded Feb 4 at 10:02
Book about a video game that makes its players do cruel things in real life
Awarded Feb 3 at 14:26
What is the “starry pole” in Blake's “Songs of Experience”?
Awarded Feb 1 at 17:11
Meaning of this William Cowper quote about admirals?
Awarded Feb 1 at 13:57
Does the Abrahamic God exist in the Cthulhu Mythos?
Awarded Jan 31 at 11:18
Vultures and wives? What does this expression mean?
Awarded Jan 30 at 10:16
What literary term/device is used when a character in a novel represents the author?
Awarded Jan 29 at 18:25
Children's book in which there seems to be another person on the opposite side of their mirror
Awarded Jan 27 at 11:32
Does Winston Smith die at the end of 1984?
Awarded Jan 27 at 10:41
Book with a series of parallel Earths and a version of the main characters replaces him
Awarded Jan 27 at 9:35
What is the origin of the plot device where a character changes negative views about someone after spending time with them?
Awarded Jan 20 at 16:02
Water on a stone, wax on a stone: revolutionary war era/founding father quote
Awarded Jan 17 at 19:47
What kind of sonnet is Sonnet 24 of Sidney's “Astrophel and Stella”?
Awarded Jan 14 at 4:27
How do we know that Shelley's “Adonais” refers to Byron and Moore?
Awarded Jan 11 at 5:36
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