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What well known phrase from “Götz von Berlichingen” is alluded to in All Quiet in the Western Front?
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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
Why are Orcs associated with the colors red, yellow, and black in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Jun 25 '20 at 20:18
Does the Abrahamic God exist in the Cthulhu Mythos?
Awarded May 12 '20 at 15:41
Does the magic potion provide invincibility or only superhuman strength?
Awarded Apr 28 '20 at 11:41
Would a reader of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea miss anything essential without knowing about Jane Eyre?
Awarded Apr 14 '20 at 21:05
Was Tess raped?
Awarded Apr 8 '20 at 14:45
Which Upanishad is TS Eliot referencing with “Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.” and why?
Awarded Apr 7 '20 at 13:10
What is the 'full' version of The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Awarded Mar 26 '20 at 0:30
What is the significance of the words of the prophets being written on the subway wall?
Awarded Mar 23 '20 at 18:15
Why don't Mr. Bennet's daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate?
Awarded Mar 22 '20 at 21:40
What does “Maybe it's a Big Horse I'm Morporkian” mean?
Awarded Mar 13 '20 at 22:55
Was Holden Caulfield molested as a child?
Awarded Mar 12 '20 at 3:05
What is “Miss Maudie's goat” in “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
Awarded Mar 1 '20 at 19:50
Is “for eating” a joke?
Awarded Feb 15 '20 at 14:55
Did Captain Pirx make a joke in base 13?
Awarded Jan 29 '20 at 12:25
Interpretation of a Churchill quote
Awarded Jan 25 '20 at 18:35
Why was 1984 set in 1984?
Awarded Jan 14 '20 at 18:30
Where did the idea that Frankenstein is the name of the monster come from?
Awarded Dec 11 '19 at 11:30
What's the significance of Liza-Lu?
Awarded Oct 6 '19 at 23:10
Where did the spells come from in The Magic Grandfather?
Awarded Sep 5 '19 at 19:45
How and why did the story of King Cnut change?
Awarded Aug 26 '19 at 21:35
Complicated name features in Wuthering Heights
Awarded Jul 20 '19 at 23:20
Was Théoden's revival inspired by Mark Twain?
Awarded Jul 4 '19 at 18:10
What’s up with Slothrop the paedophile?
Awarded May 31 '19 at 8:00
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and Wayfarers All
Awarded May 24 '19 at 10:40
Is Professor Moriarty really Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy in the way some people think?
Awarded May 16 '19 at 12:30
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