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French comic about a Native American prisoner
Awarded Oct 5 at 12:10
Young adult 80s novel about second coming of Christ as a horny teenage boy
Awarded Aug 15 at 11:36
Fantasy series where magic is connected to astronomical objects
Awarded Jul 4 at 14:57
Everyone keeps diaries due to regular, town-wide amnesia
Awarded Jun 28 at 11:17
Book about a man who entered a relationship with a shady woman and then had to kill people
Awarded May 15 at 6:10
At what time did the time travel journey begin?
Awarded Apr 5 at 12:02
What do superscript circles mean in poetry?
Awarded Apr 3 at 0:34
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 Mar 16 at 14:22
What source did Thomas Medwin use for the argument of his translation of Prometheus Bound?
Awarded Mar 7 at 5:16
Quote about renouncing power over another and hoping they will do the same back
Awarded Mar 1 at 9:57
About Sappho's "Hector and Andromacha" poem
Awarded Feb 22 at 13:36
Robot Beings who are hunted for fuel who say "Toot Toot" to each other
Awarded Feb 16 at 11:47
What was the unspeakable act that V.S. Naipaul committed while at Oxford University?
Awarded Feb 16 at 9:45
Paperback book about a falsely arrested man living in the wilderness who raises wolf cubs
Awarded Jan 11 at 2:52
What does "Printed for..." mean?
Awarded Dec 26 '20 at 13:42
In the mini-series "The Queen's Gambit", the character Jolene is black. Is this also the case in the novel by Walter Tevis?
Awarded Dec 7 '20 at 22:31
Looking for a mystery novel series whose protagonists are two old retired women
Awarded Dec 5 '20 at 0:35
What does Victor Hugo mean by "the red ant heaps of Toulon"?
Awarded Oct 14 '20 at 10:41
Where is the "unborable" quote in The Pale King?
Awarded Oct 11 '20 at 18:32
Why does the narrator in Tagore's story call the Cabuliwallah's daughter "Parbati"?
Awarded Oct 5 '20 at 13:31
A book by an American ex-spy who took part in the Panama canal-related coup
Awarded Sep 24 '20 at 11:33
Why is a mongoose a "special needs goose"?
Awarded Sep 16 '20 at 16:47
Detective story where a loophole in the US extradition law is used to avoid trial
Awarded Sep 14 '20 at 1:35
What did Gray mean by "where ignorance is bliss, / 'tis folly to be wise"?
Awarded Aug 11 '20 at 8:31
Was there a poem by Aleister Crowley that involved a mechanical girl?
Awarded Jul 20 '20 at 21:42
Story About a Boy Lost in the Wilderness
Awarded Jul 11 '20 at 7:40
What is the story of the woman who collected valueless things?
Awarded Jul 7 '20 at 11:57
Why the difference in title between English title and American title of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Awarded Apr 27 '20 at 0:36
What well known phrase from "Götz von Berlichingen" is alluded to in All Quiet in the Western Front?
Awarded Feb 13 '20 at 0:55
Short story with color of the Taj Mahal, mother says "Death rides a fast horse behind me"
Awarded Dec 19 '19 at 8:45
Looking for story where a woman calls for help by pretending to be ordering meat over the phone or something
Awarded Dec 3 '19 at 1:40
Which London streets mentioned in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are fictional?
Awarded Nov 12 '19 at 21:20
Story about a cave full of hibernating rattlesnakes
Awarded Oct 20 '19 at 1:00
Trying to find: Short story: Boy meets a man who is about to hang himself
Awarded Sep 21 '19 at 21:05
What did Twain mean by the "Creedmoor aim"?
Awarded Jul 22 '19 at 15:40
Middle Grade book read in 2001 about a US expatriate living in the mountains, at a border between countries
Awarded Jul 10 '19 at 20:10
What is a ‘tongue-leaved eye-figured Eden tree’?
Awarded Jul 1 '19 at 8:50
Dystopian novel that may or may not have been ahead of its time
Awarded Jun 30 '19 at 7:45
Short Story Identification - From English Textbook, about Person Living in Wrong Time Period
Awarded Feb 21 '19 at 21:45
Radical Canadians and Radio Broadcasts
Awarded Feb 4 '19 at 8:05
Did Peddana create Pravarakhya and Varudhini?
Awarded Dec 15 '18 at 8:20
Trying to remember a book about a kid with powers
Awarded Dec 4 '18 at 19:15
What is the source of Herb Caen's "I have a memory like an elephant."?
Awarded Nov 24 '18 at 13:05
What is the literary effect of dropping articles from titles?
Awarded Oct 22 '18 at 21:10
Tan/Brown graphic novel about family in a beach and kid with frog/toad head
Awarded Sep 6 '18 at 11:20
In which act/scene of Antigone (Sophocles) is this passage?
Awarded Aug 22 '18 at 19:30
What inspired the writing of Sredni Vashtar?
Awarded Aug 22 '18 at 11:05
Why does Dennis Brown say Hughes's Crow is "a sly parody of Eliot's later style"?
Awarded Aug 1 '18 at 6:15
Who wrote a specific poem in the movie 'Dead Poets Society'?
Awarded Jul 18 '18 at 18:33
Snoopy can balance on an edge atop his doghouse. Is any reason given for this?
Awarded Jul 3 '18 at 17:52
Book involving the apprentice of a ranger who fixes a dented canteen with swollen grain, learns to use that to break gates
Awarded Mar 19 '18 at 19:55
Are Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence actually songs? Or is the word song a metaphor?
Awarded Feb 2 '18 at 23:45
Story ID - Recent Thriller, US Government, Middle East
Awarded Jan 17 '18 at 12:21
Why did attitudes change towards tragedy?
Awarded Jan 12 '18 at 11:16
A book about a clock keeper
Awarded Jan 9 '18 at 16:45
Tudor or Jacobean plays that are sequels to a Shakespeare play?
Awarded Dec 12 '17 at 18:34
Which poem contains a phrase like "it was all done in Berlin in the thirties”
Awarded Nov 28 '17 at 20:17
Which South or Central American female author wrote a short story about frozen cockroaches?
Awarded Oct 16 '17 at 15:07
Short story that poked fun at certain authority figures (presidents or prime ministers) via implications of incompetence
Awarded Oct 10 '17 at 13:06
The name of a poem about a poet being happy that someone has forgotten the title of their poem
Awarded Sep 15 '17 at 12:45
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