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What is “the sin which ruined our first parents” in The Count of Monte Cristo?
Awarded May 2 at 3:15
What does “out of the room like a streak” mean?
Awarded Apr 28 at 9:49
What does “out of the room like a streak” mean?
Awarded Apr 28 at 2:46
Source of a quote by Bernard Shaw about flying versus living with each other like humans
Awarded Apr 27 at 8:16
How can I find information about the editions of a book?
Awarded Apr 21 at 22:41
Short story about a man condemned to death because he cannot remember the details about a country
Awarded Apr 20 at 5:57
Looking for a story about a boy deformed by factory work - I think it's an O. Henry
Awarded Apr 16 at 5:37
In the poem “North” by Seamus Heaney, what is meant by the Aurora Borealis line and the word “nubbed”?
Awarded Apr 15 at 5:54
What does this quote from The Great Gatsby mean?
Awarded Apr 13 at 6:31
What is the meaning of this sentence by H.G. Wells about a “liberal heathen deity”?
Awarded Apr 6 at 2:57
Identify a fiction novel about Atlantis and digital or analog “discs”
Awarded Apr 5 at 1:12
First book of Edward de Vere's poems?
Awarded Apr 4 at 9:21
What was the public's initial reaction to Virginia Woolf's Orlando?
Awarded Apr 3 at 1:50
Did Benjamin Franklin mix up his friends?
Awarded Mar 17 at 13:32
Did “equator” have a different meaning from its common one in 19th-century English literature?
Awarded Mar 3 at 10:48
What is the meaning of “Georgian Verse”?
Awarded Feb 25 at 4:55
Postmodernist fantasy with nested stories structure
Awarded Feb 23 at 10:30
Did Pushkin ever deliberately copy the style of anyone else?
Awarded Feb 19 at 3:33
Tolkien character names inspired by Early Modern English
Awarded Feb 17 at 13:40
What was the unspeakable act that V.S. Naipaul committed while at Oxford University?
Awarded Feb 17 at 6:21
How long is the Nijni-Novgorod trade fair?
Awarded Feb 17 at 0:16
Does the Order of Melchizedek's professed goal to bring the Vatican Council to the masses refer to a historical reality?
Awarded Feb 9 at 14:32
What does A. E. C. denote in the poem about Edward Anti-Teller?
Awarded Jan 28 at 15:21
Is there any evidence that Shakespeare studied or read classical rhetoric?
Awarded Jan 25 at 15:27
Why “Moon Child”?
Awarded Jan 21 at 23:57
What well known phrase from “Götz von Berlichingen” is alluded to in All Quiet in the Western Front?
Awarded Jan 19 at 23:27
How is Hamlet different from a conventional Elizabethan revenge play?
Awarded Jan 4 at 11:33
How did they track Llewelyn Moss in “No Country for Old Men”?
Awarded Jan 3 at 15:35
Is there any evidence for a gay relationship in The Merchant of Venice?
Awarded Dec 31 '20 at 13:47
In “On The Face of It” by Susan Hill, why did the author decide to kill Mr. Lamb at the end of the story?
Awarded Dec 29 '20 at 22:41
Why don't these lines rhyme in Les Miserables?
Awarded Dec 19 '20 at 16:00
Can the Odyssey be consumed independently of the Iliad?
Awarded Dec 8 '20 at 18:13
Story in which a boy's mother dies, he forgets about it when at school but remembers when he arrives home?
Awarded Nov 28 '20 at 23:15
Why did iambic pentameter become so 'standard' in classical English poetry?
Awarded Nov 25 '20 at 6:37
Symbolism of the Mind Game in Ender's Game
Awarded Nov 17 '20 at 18:04
YA novel that I read in 1987 at school - two young British guys captured by terrorists and escape from a pit
Awarded Nov 16 '20 at 21:41
What is “the sin which ruined our first parents” in The Count of Monte Cristo?
Awarded Nov 13 '20 at 18:10
How many sailors from Odysseus' crew survived the Odyssey?
Awarded Oct 29 '20 at 18:46
Why is black evil and white good?
Awarded Oct 8 '20 at 3:18
Where are Greenfield and Silver City in The Boxcar Children?
Awarded Sep 24 '20 at 1:05
Any inspiration for the statue revival scene in Shakespeare's “The Winter's Tale”?
Awarded Sep 24 '20 at 1:05
What is The Princess Bride's “reunion scene” that you had to write to the publisher for?
Awarded Sep 21 '20 at 1:41
Why is Gatsby great?
Awarded Sep 20 '20 at 7:17
Why is Hemingway's generation a ‘lost generation’?
Awarded Sep 14 '20 at 13:03
Who illustrated “Exotic Zoology”?
Awarded Sep 4 '20 at 3:26
Significance of the Phoenician Sailor having pearls for eyes in The Waste Land
Awarded Sep 2 '20 at 14:05
What is the meaning of the epilogue in Blood Meridian?
Awarded Aug 30 '20 at 15:03
What is the purpose of all the lists in chapter 12 of Joyce's Ulysses?
Awarded Aug 30 '20 at 10:21
In The Bet, why does the lawyer willingly stay fifteen years instead of five years for no extra reward?
Awarded Aug 28 '20 at 17:25
How wide was the exploration of Japan's culture in American literature before 1905?
Awarded Aug 27 '20 at 12:57
Who does Mollie represent in Animal Farm?
Awarded Aug 24 '20 at 23:06
Thomas McElwain as Ali Haydar?
Awarded Aug 19 '20 at 21:51
What did Charles Dickens say about genius and pain?
Awarded Aug 19 '20 at 16:41
How much weight should we give authors' declarations of their intent after the fact?
Awarded Aug 16 '20 at 22:48
Why is it called Watership Down?
Awarded Aug 2 '20 at 13:17
Trying to remember a book about a relationship between a teenage girl and an older man
Awarded Jul 30 '20 at 16:30
Was there a poem by Aleister Crowley that involved a mechanical girl?
Awarded Jul 23 '20 at 0:03
Does an answer to the Sugar Bowl mystery exist?
Awarded Jul 19 '20 at 5:25
Are the Asterix comics about a drug culture?
Awarded Jul 14 '20 at 19:48
In Brave New World, what caste is Lenina Crowne?
Awarded Jul 10 '20 at 13:17
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