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What's the significance of Liza-Lu?
Awarded Oct 6 at 23:10
Where did the spells come from in The Magic Grandfather?
Awarded Sep 5 at 19:45
How and why did the story of King Cnut change?
Awarded Aug 26 at 21:35
Complicated name features in Wuthering Heights
Awarded Jul 20 at 23:20
Was Théoden's revival inspired by Mark Twain?
Awarded Jul 4 at 18:10
What’s up with Slothrop the paedophile?
Awarded May 31 at 8:00
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and Wayfarers All
Awarded May 24 at 10:40
Is Professor Moriarty really Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy in the way some people think?
Awarded May 16 at 12:30
What rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Awarded May 8 at 16:25
What is the “heap of broken images” in The Waste Land?
Awarded May 4 at 14:15
What circumstances is Bachchan referring to in this poem?
Awarded Apr 17 at 15:00
Why do we see so little mention of Leopold Bloom's social isolation in his internal monologue?
Awarded Apr 7 at 11:35
Origin of symbolic interpretation of Prospero's breaking of his staff?
Awarded Mar 24 at 13:30
What's the joke with “Best of Queen” in Good Omens?
Awarded Feb 20 at 23:10
What's the joke with “Best of Queen” in Good Omens?
Awarded Feb 14 at 2:45
What is the name of the book in which an exhausted man wrestles with a wounded wolf?
Awarded Jan 30 at 3:10
Why does Piggy's accent not matter?
Awarded Jan 23 at 7:55
In Brave New World, why are some people not sterile?
Awarded Jan 23 at 2:20
Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
Awarded Jan 13 at 14:35
Was Tom Robinson's trial the only inconsistency between To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman?
Awarded Jan 11 at 15:50
Did Piggy participate in the killing of Simon?
Awarded Jan 9 at 17:35
Which South or Central American female author wrote a short story about frozen cockroaches?
Awarded Jan 5 at 0:05
What is the chronological order of the Tales of Goldstone Wood books?
Awarded Nov 24 '18 at 16:40
In what sense did Yossarian love the chaplain?
Awarded Nov 13 '18 at 1:55
Why does A Wind in the Door contradict A Wrinkle in Time on conformity?
Awarded Oct 23 '18 at 11:10
Meaning of “I'm almost three-score” in “The Idiot Boy” by Wordsworth
Awarded Oct 19 '18 at 0:20
Why is the poem “Yggdrasil” placed where it is in House of Leaves, and which narrator included it?
Awarded Oct 18 '18 at 1:00
Accuracy of a translation: how to forge an opinion?
Awarded Oct 8 '18 at 17:30
What's the significance of the witches' name change in Sandman?
Awarded Oct 4 '18 at 11:55
Why is the king 'baffled' in “Hallelujah”?
Awarded Oct 1 '18 at 3:30
Why does the Iliad start “in the middle”?
Awarded Aug 13 '18 at 3:15
Why does the Iliad start “in the middle”?
Awarded Aug 13 '18 at 2:25
Why is a cuckolded husband “fit for heaven” in Byron's Don Juan?
Awarded Aug 10 '18 at 13:10
Who said this quote? Napoleon Bonaparte or Theodore Roosevelt?
Awarded Aug 5 '18 at 13:10
Is the house plan in Anne Frank's diary an artistic rendition, or is it sketched by Anne?
Awarded Aug 4 '18 at 11:50
What rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Awarded Jul 29 '18 at 21:25
Did Arthur Conan Doyle code Holmes and Watson as a gay couple?
Awarded Jul 6 '18 at 8:00
Are photographs in Harry Potter a device for characterizing subjects?
Awarded Jul 1 '18 at 1:28
Was Skin Games the first where Harry withheld information?
Awarded Jun 28 '18 at 1:50
How many of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience come in pairs?
Awarded Jun 8 '18 at 13:53
Which real-life languages other than English, Welsh and Old English/Norse did Tolkien draw on for naming things?
Awarded May 22 '18 at 16:31
Who does the cat represent in Animal Farm?
Awarded Apr 30 '18 at 16:08
Was Shakespeare inspired by Olaus Magnus when writing Macbeth?
Awarded Feb 14 '18 at 21:51
Where is the start of Treasure Island set?
Awarded Feb 7 '18 at 7:24
Origin of the phrase “Open Sesame”
Awarded Feb 5 '18 at 3:39
Is there really a nuclear war in the world of “The Lord of the Flies”?
Awarded Feb 2 '18 at 15:44
Identify a book, love triangle, death of a woman, no Personal Computers
Awarded Jan 17 '18 at 12:21
A book about a clock keeper
Awarded Jan 9 '18 at 17:10
What justifies the anti-Tess interpretation of “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”?
Awarded Jan 4 '18 at 19:02
How many of Shakespeare's words in his plays were new?
Awarded Dec 27 '17 at 18:41
What reference is Shakespeare making in Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth?
Awarded Dec 21 '17 at 19:01
When did the Rupert Bear stories start repeating themselves?
Awarded Dec 19 '17 at 17:52
Language in A View from the Bridge
Awarded Nov 13 '17 at 20:25
What is the significance of the words of the prophets being written on the subway wall?
Awarded Oct 16 '17 at 10:53
Were all of Shakespeare's plays fully in iambic pentameter?
Awarded Aug 29 '17 at 18:16
What effect does an epistolary format have on our understanding of the book as a reader?
Awarded Aug 23 '17 at 12:52
Ray Bradbury says Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship. Is he right?
Awarded Aug 16 '17 at 15:26
Was Stevenson's Treasure Island influenced by Poe?
Awarded Aug 15 '17 at 18:34
Why is there a focus on the atmosphere in The Fall of the House of Usher?
Awarded Aug 15 '17 at 15:37
Who illustrated “Exotic Zoology”?
Awarded Jul 3 '17 at 20:07
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