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Why is Phyllis a "ward of chancery"?
Awarded May 16 at 9:25
Science fiction book in which a doctor treats a sociopathic child who killed her brother
Awarded Apr 28 at 22:50
Looking for a shoujo/romance one-shot manga
Awarded Mar 24 at 12:35
Looking for short story about a bank robbery where the lookout turned in the accomplices
Awarded Feb 21 at 10:21
Source of quote "Our government should have no quarrel..."
Awarded Feb 8 at 5:52
Why does Valentine refer to her father's second wife as her "mother-in-law"?
Awarded Jan 27 at 17:52
What are the "garment thin" and the "prize" in the song "The Ballad of the Shape of Things to Come"?
Awarded Jan 9 at 11:05
Reference to "Sensible Susan" in E. Nesbit's New Treasure Seekers?
Awarded Dec 29, 2021 at 11:25
Looking for the author of a story about a tourist who got a tattoo from a renowned artist
Awarded Dec 2, 2021 at 18:50
Short story by Poe where the killers of an evil king escape by ladder
Awarded Dec 2, 2021 at 18:50
French comic about a Native American prisoner
Awarded Oct 5, 2021 at 12:10
Young adult 80s novel about second coming of Christ as a horny teenage boy
Awarded Aug 15, 2021 at 11:36
Fantasy series where magic is connected to astronomical objects
Awarded Jul 4, 2021 at 14:57
Everyone keeps diaries due to regular, town-wide amnesia
Awarded Jun 28, 2021 at 11:17
Book about a man who entered a relationship with a shady woman and then had to kill people
Awarded May 15, 2021 at 6:10
At what time did the time travel journey begin?
Awarded Apr 5, 2021 at 12:02
What do superscript circles mean in poetry?
Awarded Apr 3, 2021 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, 2021 at 14:22
What source did Thomas Medwin use for the argument of his translation of Prometheus Bound?
Awarded Mar 7, 2021 at 5:16
Quote about renouncing power over another and hoping they will do the same back
Awarded Mar 1, 2021 at 9:57
About Sappho's "Hector and Andromacha" poem
Awarded Feb 22, 2021 at 13:36
Robot Beings who are hunted for fuel who say "Toot Toot" to each other
Awarded Feb 16, 2021 at 11:47
What was the unspeakable act that V.S. Naipaul committed while at Oxford University?
Awarded Feb 16, 2021 at 9:45
Paperback book about a falsely arrested man living in the wilderness who raises wolf cubs
Awarded Jan 11, 2021 at 2:52
What does "Printed for..." mean?
Awarded Dec 26, 2020 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, 2020 at 22:31
Looking for a mystery novel series whose protagonists are two old retired women
Awarded Dec 5, 2020 at 0:35
What does Victor Hugo mean by "the red ant heaps of Toulon"?
Awarded Oct 14, 2020 at 10:41
Where is the "unborable" quote in The Pale King?
Awarded Oct 11, 2020 at 18:32
Why does the narrator in Tagore's story call the Cabuliwallah's daughter "Parbati"?
Awarded Oct 5, 2020 at 13:31
A book by an American ex-spy who took part in the Panama canal-related coup
Awarded Sep 24, 2020 at 11:33
Why is a mongoose a "special needs goose"?
Awarded Sep 16, 2020 at 16:47
Detective story where a loophole in the US extradition law is used to avoid trial
Awarded Sep 14, 2020 at 1:35
What did Gray mean by "where ignorance is bliss, / 'tis folly to be wise"?
Awarded Aug 11, 2020 at 8:31
Was there a poem by Aleister Crowley that involved a mechanical girl?
Awarded Jul 20, 2020 at 21:42
Story About a Boy Lost in the Wilderness
Awarded Jul 11, 2020 at 7:40
What is the story of the woman who collected valueless things?
Awarded Jul 7, 2020 at 11:57
Why the difference in title between English title and American title of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Awarded Apr 27, 2020 at 0:36
What well known phrase from "Götz von Berlichingen" is alluded to in All Quiet in the Western Front?
Awarded Feb 13, 2020 at 0:55
Short story with color of the Taj Mahal, mother says "Death rides a fast horse behind me"
Awarded Dec 19, 2019 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, 2019 at 1:40
Which London streets mentioned in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are fictional?
Awarded Nov 12, 2019 at 21:20
Story about a cave full of hibernating rattlesnakes
Awarded Oct 20, 2019 at 1:00
Trying to find: Short story: Boy meets a man who is about to hang himself
Awarded Sep 21, 2019 at 21:05
What did Twain mean by the "Creedmoor aim"?
Awarded Jul 22, 2019 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, 2019 at 20:10
What is a ‘tongue-leaved eye-figured Eden tree’?
Awarded Jul 1, 2019 at 8:50
Dystopian novel that may or may not have been ahead of its time
Awarded Jun 30, 2019 at 7:45
Short Story Identification - From English Textbook, about Person Living in Wrong Time Period
Awarded Feb 21, 2019 at 21:45
Radical Canadians and Radio Broadcasts
Awarded Feb 4, 2019 at 8:05
Did Peddana create Pravarakhya and Varudhini?
Awarded Dec 15, 2018 at 8:20
Trying to remember a book about a kid with powers
Awarded Dec 4, 2018 at 19:15
What is the source of Herb Caen's "I have a memory like an elephant."?
Awarded Nov 24, 2018 at 13:05
What is the literary effect of dropping articles from titles?
Awarded Oct 22, 2018 at 21:10
Tan/Brown graphic novel about family in a beach and kid with frog/toad head
Awarded Sep 6, 2018 at 11:20
In which act/scene of Antigone (Sophocles) is this passage?
Awarded Aug 22, 2018 at 19:30
What inspired the writing of Sredni Vashtar?
Awarded Aug 22, 2018 at 11:05
Why does Dennis Brown say Hughes's Crow is "a sly parody of Eliot's later style"?
Awarded Aug 1, 2018 at 6:15
Who wrote a specific poem in the movie 'Dead Poets Society'?
Awarded Jul 18, 2018 at 18:33
Snoopy can balance on an edge atop his doghouse. Is any reason given for this?
Awarded Jul 3, 2018 at 17:52
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