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Is there a math mistake in Moby Dick Chapter 99?
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What does it mean when Ralph is thinking about Piggy's death in Lord of the Flies by Golding
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Meaning/translation of title “The Light Fantastic” by Terry Pratchett
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In Master and Commander, why is the cook told to put his pans upside down?
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What is the symbolism of the Western Wind (or Zephyr)?
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An Indian man retires to become a hermit
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Trying to find: Short story: Boy meets a man who is about to hang himself
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What did H. G. Wells mean by “Manifestly their line lay straight along the lane to the sea”?
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What is the source of “You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love” (Shakespeare?)
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Is Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's poem 'The Camel Rider' really a translation?
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Vision of the future in Max Beerbohm's “Enoch Soames”
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Difference between “Ode to” and “Ode on”?
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Looking for a quote from 1984 about the party's immortality vs personal mortality
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Short story about Gentlemen being told a tale by a young woman
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What was Septimus Warren Smith's rank?
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Who is Thomas o' Becket" in Tristram Shandy?
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Origin of “give a watermelon a pure fit” in “Blood Meridian”
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Russian children's book about a boy's first train journey
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Help understanding this quote/hymn by Isaac Watts
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In 'Pride and Prejudice',why was Mary's performance bad compared to Elizabeth's?
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Does someone know the “Moment of Ljewin” in Anna Karenina?
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Searching for an Illustrated Children's Book with Animal Characters
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How can “Death be not proud” be related to the areas of exploration?
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How much did Lombard know about the murders in “And Then There Where None”?
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“Remembrance Day” in “Jude the Obscure”
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“Just William” story in which school choir is mistaken for wolves
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In the short story “Should Wizard hit Mommy” by John Updike,what is the author conveying through his narrated story and contradicting actions
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Why does Mr Darcy immediately suspect Mrs Gardiner of telling Elizabeth of his hand in marrying Lydia?
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If Hamlet, being a prince, outranked Horatio, why did he address him as “sir”?
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What is the meaning of Samuel Butler's eulogy beginning “I fall asleep”?
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What is The Princess Bride's “reunion scene” that you had to write to the publisher for?
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00s (or latterly) novel which talk about a boy trying to survive in the jungle after a plane crash into a lake
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Complicated name features in Wuthering Heights
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About the role of Lizaveta in Crime and Punishment
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How did Pilate order Judas' death in Master and Margarita?
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An expression 'temporary absolution' from Maupassant's 'Confession'
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Looking for a short story about a person whose conversations run from A to Z
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Description of a character in 'War and peace'
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How long had Bertha Mason been in the attic at the point of the events in Jane Eyre
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What is the text Ivan refers to in the preface to the Grand Inquisitor
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Difference between the two editions of “Great Books of the Western World”
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Albert Thibaudet and the Geneva School?
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UK comedy book about a man falsely accused of murder while his wife is off with the new neighbours
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In “Candide”, are Prussian officers recruiting for the Bulgarian army?
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Stendhal reference in Michael Herr's “Dispatches”
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Is there a useful “entry-level” annotated edition of Le Morte d'Arthur
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1970s feminist book with premise something like: All men are guilty of raping all women?
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How to interpret “body that leaned stiffly” in H. P. Lovecraft's “Azathoth”?
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Romeo and Juliet “Which then most sought where most might not be found”
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Story about a cave full of hibernating rattlesnakes
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Middle-grade or YA book with a very smart teenager
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Book Identification: YA book about airplane crash in child's backyard
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Play: With A Memorable Conversation between a villain and his henchman
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What is the significance of Sauron never having a physical presence in the Lord of the Rings?
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What does ahn in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets mean?
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Was Victor Frankenstein an aristocrat?
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Is there a hidden meaning in the name of Captain Foulenough?
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What does Mark Twain mean by “keep hotel”?
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What did Scout mean when she said “It takes a woman to do that kind of work”?
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Novel: young woman blows herself up at her rich dad's party for Latin American dictators
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