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Is John Milton's Lucifer a tragic hero?
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What classic mystery novels and stories led to "the butler did it" becoming a cliché?
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Term for intentionally impressing different meanings on different audiences
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Has a parody of a work of literature ever become more successful than the original work?
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How can Gilgamesh be one-third man and two-thirds god?
Awarded Jan 3 at 14:42
Why does the Iliad start "in the middle"?
Awarded Jan 3 at 0:11
How did Ibsen's writing in A Doll's House influence the James Joyce character Molly Bloom?
Awarded Dec 20 '21 at 11:05
Which flood story was first: Genesis or The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Awarded Dec 13 '21 at 12:26
Did the recipient receive twelve partridges or just one?
Awarded Dec 5 '21 at 4:03
What Confederate counterfactual story features Florida as an independent tourist republic?
Awarded Dec 2 '21 at 18:50
What's the evidence for "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" being secretly set in Edinburgh?
Awarded Nov 30 '21 at 12:55
What is the historical basis for Roark's claim about the Parthenon?
Awarded Nov 29 '21 at 12:40
Did Thoreau respond to claims that he was an anarchist?
Awarded Nov 28 '21 at 6:34
What Kanji startles Otoko so much?
Awarded Nov 28 '21 at 4:32
Was Afghanistan considered tropical or was Holmes wrong?
Awarded Nov 21 '21 at 18:47
How did Ursula Le Guin translate the Tao Te Ching / Dao De Jing?
Awarded Nov 13 '21 at 18:08
Is this part of Mark Antony's speech to the conspirators in the play "Julius Caesar" meant to be honest?
Awarded Nov 13 '21 at 14:10
How did Ursula Le Guin translate the Tao Te Ching / Dao De Jing?
Awarded Nov 11 '21 at 14:32
Why do readers dislike Vronsky in the early part of the novel?
Awarded Nov 11 '21 at 4:40
What is the origin of epigraphs?
Awarded Oct 26 '21 at 17:05
Is Snoopy a telepath?
Awarded Oct 25 '21 at 14:27
Federico García Lorca quote: "I'm a capitalist and a socialist and a communist and an anarchist and a monarchist"
Awarded Oct 25 '21 at 9:46
Were the Just William stories written for adults or children?
Awarded Oct 20 '21 at 21:42
What does "have you no cacke a bed" mean?
Awarded Oct 7 '21 at 16:21
Did George R. R. Martin read Romance of The Three Kingdoms?
Awarded Sep 15 '21 at 1:08
How do Pierre and Natasha "lie to each other" in 'War and Peace'?
Awarded Sep 14 '21 at 8:35
Was Holden Caulfield molested as a child?
Awarded Sep 7 '21 at 10:46
O. Henry story about a grandfather who sits a boy down on a porch to tell a story about a grandfather who sits a boy down etc
Awarded Aug 28 '21 at 17:41
Who are The Sixteen Sexophonists in Brave New World?
Awarded Aug 25 '21 at 14:10
Understanding two lines from "The Wound-Dresser" by Walt Whitman
Awarded Aug 24 '21 at 17:06
What's the title of the short story about wife accidentally eating all of her husband's food so she cooked "something" instead?
Awarded Aug 18 '21 at 22:33
Why would the subject of fingerprints make everybody lose their common sense?
Awarded Jul 31 '21 at 16:30
Is there a name for a version of trochaic tetrameter with lines of 8|7|8|7 syllables?
Awarded Jul 30 '21 at 15:21
What does Gulzar actually mean by saying that Earth can hide a river inside?
Awarded Jul 13 '21 at 13:04
What does it mean to laugh like the letter k?
Awarded Jul 12 '21 at 16:36
Does 'In a Grove' assume that dead people don't lie?
Awarded Jul 12 '21 at 8:30
Original Russian text of this review of Crime and Punishment
Awarded Jul 2 '21 at 4:20
Understanding and interpreting Yeats phases of the moon
Awarded Jun 21 '21 at 15:40
Did the Lord of the Flies have any kind of religious reference more specific than just the Devil?
Awarded Jun 16 '21 at 15:41
Did the Brotherhood really exist?
Awarded Jun 12 '21 at 1:40
What work is titled "Distresses of the Industrious Population"?
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Roald Dahl short story - wife kills drunkard husband by spiking his drink
Awarded May 20 '21 at 20:33
In Brave New World, If Lenina is a beta, why does she wear green?
Awarded May 16 '21 at 11:55
What is the theology of Little Women?
Awarded May 15 '21 at 14:21
What is "the sin which ruined our first parents" in The Count of Monte Cristo?
Awarded May 2 '21 at 3:15
What does “out of the room like a streak” mean?
Awarded Apr 28 '21 at 9:49
What does “out of the room like a streak” mean?
Awarded Apr 28 '21 at 2:46
Source of a quote by Bernard Shaw about flying versus living with each other like humans
Awarded Apr 27 '21 at 8:16
How can I find information about the editions of a book?
Awarded Apr 21 '21 at 22:41
Short story about a man condemned to death because he cannot remember the details about a country
Awarded Apr 20 '21 at 5:57
Looking for a story about a boy deformed by factory work - I think it's an O. Henry
Awarded Apr 16 '21 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 '21 at 5:54
What does this quote from The Great Gatsby mean?
Awarded Apr 13 '21 at 6:31
What is the meaning of this sentence by H.G. Wells about a "liberal heathen deity"?
Awarded Apr 6 '21 at 2:57
Identify a fiction novel about Atlantis and digital or analog "discs"
Awarded Apr 5 '21 at 1:12
First book of Edward de Vere's poems?
Awarded Apr 4 '21 at 9:21
What was the public's initial reaction to Virginia Woolf's Orlando?
Awarded Apr 3 '21 at 1:50
Did Benjamin Franklin mix up his friends?
Awarded Mar 17 '21 at 13:32
Did "equator" have a different meaning from its common one in 19th-century English literature?
Awarded Mar 3 '21 at 10:48
What is the meaning of "Georgian Verse"?
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