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What well known phrase from “Götz von Berlichingen” is alluded to in All Quiet in the Western Front?
Awarded Feb 13 at 0:55
Short story identification: 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
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
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
What/who are the exact sources of inspiration, deriving from Antiquity, for Fables, written by La Fontaine?
Awarded Dec 13 '17 at 21:02
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
What book has monsters that disguise themselves as black tire chunks on the sides of roads?
Awarded Sep 1 '17 at 4:45
Did George Orwell ever feel that Spain would be better off under Franco?
Awarded Aug 20 '17 at 10:47
Why does O'Brien claim that the party didn't believe in solipsism?
Awarded Jul 21 '17 at 22:41
19th-C French story about loner who dines and doesn't go to England
Awarded Jul 12 '17 at 10:24
Very large World War 3 novel: US vs China, main characters include new US president and younger US soldier
Awarded Jul 8 '17 at 12:51
Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
Awarded Jun 25 '17 at 12:02
Story-ID Teenager in orphanage or prison
Awarded Jun 21 '17 at 18:08
Identify a (post nuclear?) fallout story
Awarded May 28 '17 at 13:26
Why does “Watchmen” use the 9-panel grid?
Awarded May 18 '17 at 23:11
YA Adventure/Survival Novel, Written Late 1940's Through Late 1970's
Awarded Apr 10 '17 at 18:18
Did Captain Pirx make a joke in base 13?
Awarded Apr 7 '17 at 12:58
The author of a literary work disagrees with critics about meaning—who's right?
Awarded Mar 9 '17 at 20:47
What are the many names of J.E.D.D. Mason, and their meanings?
Awarded Mar 6 '17 at 9:53
Short story in Russian about time travel and changing the history of WW2
Awarded Feb 26 '17 at 13:49
Did Rand think that people in the real world were that stupid?
Awarded Feb 21 '17 at 16:24
What are the charactaristics of German Trümmerliteratur?
Awarded Feb 18 '17 at 21:37
Why does Modesta Gómez demand payment from the indigenous girl?
Awarded Jan 29 '17 at 17:40
Why does A Wind in the Door contradict A Wrinkle in Time on conformity?
Awarded Jan 29 '17 at 14:33
Did Winston and Julia oversleep?
Awarded Jan 28 '17 at 19:14
Are any Sherlock Holmes antagonists besides Moriarty based on real people?
Awarded Jan 27 '17 at 19:32
What does it mean to laugh like the letter k?
Awarded Jan 21 '17 at 16:17
Are the comic elements of Conrad's The Secret Agent intentional?
Awarded Jan 21 '17 at 10:09
Has the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson” ever truly appeared in a Sherlock Holmes book?
Awarded Jan 19 '17 at 16:19
Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle decide to kill off this character?
Awarded Jan 19 '17 at 12:26
Did Leckie consult with the audiobook narrators on pronunciation?
Awarded Jan 19 '17 at 0:55
When and why did the Brothers Grimm start collecting fairy tales?
Awarded Jan 18 '17 at 19:41