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What is known, and how, about the dating of the Exeter Book?
Awarded Aug 7, 2021 at 13:15
What did Vin mean by leaving Mare's flower picture for Sazed?
Awarded Aug 6, 2021 at 18:17
Short story about a wealthy man bringing his new wife to his childhood home, from when he was poor, which is in the mountains/wilderness
Awarded Jul 28, 2021 at 1:17
What is the meaning of the epilogue in Blood Meridian?
Awarded Jul 22, 2021 at 13:22
Short story about secret spy betrayed at a secret party, boss got stuck in trap while looking for files
Awarded Jul 19, 2021 at 12:56
What are these letters in Unicode?
Awarded Jul 19, 2021 at 8:48
What do "Joggleberry", "celestial limit" and "pink penultimate" mean in "The Power-House"?
Awarded Jul 16, 2021 at 4:34
In 1984, did Julia ever reach room 101? If so, what was her worst fear?
Awarded Jul 12, 2021 at 14:02
Fantasy series where magic is connected to astronomical objects
Awarded Jul 4, 2021 at 8:25
Original Russian text of this review of Crime and Punishment
Awarded Jul 1, 2021 at 18:57
I would like to identify a specific part of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah
Awarded Jun 28, 2021 at 20:26
Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”?
Awarded Jun 21, 2021 at 19:55
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Awarded Jun 18, 2021 at 18:57
Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
Awarded Jun 17, 2021 at 12:10
Why is Russian literature considered part of Western culture when so much of Russia is in the East?
Awarded Jun 17, 2021 at 11:30
What's the meaning of "a knife in your throat held after dark" in the Silly Walk Song?
Awarded Jun 16, 2021 at 11:36
What does "a stroke a hole" refer to in "The Thirty-Nine Steps"?
Awarded Jun 15, 2021 at 11:28
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Awarded Jun 5, 2021 at 4:36
What does Edith Wharton mean by "democratic principles" in The Age of Innocence?
Awarded Jun 3, 2021 at 18:17
Short British horror story about a selective, helmet-like memory eraser
Awarded May 31, 2021 at 22:43
What is the difference in pronunciation between the two types of folio abbreviations: f. and ff.?
Awarded May 25, 2021 at 7:41
Meaning of "My finger burst like a sausage"
Awarded May 24, 2021 at 5:32
Mad Magazine comic strip about a boy pondering over existence (and "I think, therefore I am")
Awarded May 21, 2021 at 16:42
How could sixty cents of $1.87 be in pennies?
Awarded May 20, 2021 at 16:19
What does Silverweed's poem signify?
Awarded May 20, 2021 at 11:10
Meaning of "trente-six à soixante-huit chandelles" in Jean Ferrat's Ma France
Awarded May 19, 2021 at 11:40
What are the "mind-forged manacles"?
Awarded May 18, 2021 at 9:11
What is the German loan word?
Awarded May 17, 2021 at 8:40
Why did Hamlet tell Ophelia: "Get thee to a nunnery!"?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 11:55
What is the German loan word?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 10:08
Is Babar an African or Asian elephant?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 6:07
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Awarded May 15, 2021 at 6:02
What is the theology of Little Women?
Awarded May 15, 2021 at 5:55
In what Chinese fairy tale does a painter disappear into his own painting?
Awarded May 11, 2021 at 17:40
Meaning of the phrase "If ever a man leaped across time into the raw..."
Awarded May 5, 2021 at 7:30
What are the blue pills referred to in Halsey's "Colors"?
Awarded May 4, 2021 at 3:57
How did Hans Christian Andersen know so much about Indian culture and geography?
Awarded Apr 26, 2021 at 17:37
What is an epic and why is there “only one epic in English Language so far”?
Awarded Apr 21, 2021 at 10:37
Where in the New York City metro area does Ludwik live?
Awarded Apr 20, 2021 at 10:53
Identification of a Maupassant short story where a young man is upset by the past infidelities of his mistress
Awarded Apr 19, 2021 at 11:42
Is there a term for epic poetry’s detailed, successive introductions of multiple characters?
Awarded Apr 15, 2021 at 19:54
Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
Awarded Apr 12, 2021 at 13:45
How many members of Captain Flint's crew are known?
Awarded Apr 11, 2021 at 11:33
Does the Birling family (and Gerald) represent the 7 deadly sins and/or the story of the pharaoh?
Awarded Apr 9, 2021 at 14:35
What is the meaning of the sentence “You are--aren't you?” in this novel by John Galsworthy?
Awarded Apr 9, 2021 at 0:34
How does this joke (?) of Gonff's work?
Awarded Apr 3, 2021 at 9:55
What is the significance of "Jonathan" in Strange and Norrell?
Awarded Apr 3, 2021 at 9:06
What do superscript circles mean in poetry?
Awarded Apr 2, 2021 at 23:20
What did Melville mean by the "Pythagorean Maxim" in "Moby Dick"?
Awarded Apr 1, 2021 at 10:41
Why was "a world" used in this sentence of Melville?
Awarded Mar 30, 2021 at 22:27
Which book by Steven Brust has "A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be"?
Awarded Mar 30, 2021 at 15:51
What did Melville mean by the "Pythagorean Maxim" in "Moby Dick"?
Awarded Mar 28, 2021 at 18:16
Does the Dime Lions' name have a deeper significance?
Awarded Mar 28, 2021 at 18:02
What does "hawk" mean in the context below?
Awarded Mar 28, 2021 at 13:02
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Awarded Mar 28, 2021 at 10:42
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Awarded Mar 28, 2021 at 2:26
Where is Napoleon during the battle of the cowshed?
Awarded Mar 25, 2021 at 22:16
Is "I'm glad you think it's funny" meant sarcastically or literally?
Awarded Mar 22, 2021 at 23:27
Short story: an executioner, uncaring to convicts, discovers a watch that he gifted to his son
Awarded Mar 22, 2021 at 13:12
Penelope's Letter in The Shadow Of The Wind
Awarded Mar 21, 2021 at 7:56
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