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Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”?
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A detective story about money printing
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Native American story about a mailman
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What does this paragraph mean in Dickens' American Notes?
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How did the relationships in Henry James' “The Golden Bowl” strike contemporary readers?
Awarded Jun 16 at 9:41
Short story about a detective and criminal who disguise themselves and interact while in pursuit
Awarded Jun 15 at 21:34
Life of Clara A. Walsh
Awarded Jun 15 at 17:21
Does Thomas the Tank Engine have free will?
Awarded Jun 14 at 5:06
Who is Los in William Blake's works? [closed]
Awarded Jun 12 at 17:21
Meaning of “rubber” as a verb in O. Henry
Awarded Jun 11 at 14:06
Which story referenced the parable of Custer’s last stand?
Awarded Jun 9 at 22:42
Nietzsche: It is improbable that you are not mistaken: double negative
Awarded Jun 8 at 4:55
What does it mean when Faulkner says: “The will of man to prevail“?
Awarded Jun 8 at 4:10
Who wrote, and what is the name of, this famous essay on criticism?
Awarded Jun 8 at 2:20
Is there a difference between Russian and English speaking cultures in the sense of rhythm when reciting poetry?
Awarded Jun 7 at 12:33
What do “Free Trader” and “Protection in the Colonies” refer to in “The Thirty-Nine Steps”?
Awarded Jun 6 at 11:36
Book that tracked the life of two objects over centuries
Awarded Jun 5 at 23:57
How do I analyze the stress/unstress in this Stephen King based novel?
Awarded Jun 4 at 19:17
What's the meter of “Song of Young Girl” by William Lang?
Awarded Jun 2 at 21:11
Is the Erewhonian Nosnibor a satire on a real person?
Awarded Jun 2 at 18:56
Is “Ubik” cyberpunk? [closed]
Awarded Jun 2 at 16:05
“Each of us has the plague within him” from The Plague by Albert Camus
Awarded Jun 1 at 14:18
What did Robert Frost mean in his April 7 1926 letter to B.F. Skinner?
Awarded Jun 1 at 8:03
The influence of Rossetti and Blake on Yeats
Awarded May 31 at 15:18
In Brave New World, how does Mustapha Mond get his red lips?
Awarded May 31 at 3:55
How could the current bear the coracle southward, if the current was northwards earlier?
Awarded May 30 at 17:56
What was the question which the Baudelaire orphans were asking themselves?
Awarded May 30 at 13:45
Looking for an elegy poem about a flower the narrator cared for (at the cost of enjoying life), which died and left him devastated
Awarded May 29 at 21:36
What's the title of the short story about wife accidentally eating all of her husbands food so she cooked “something” instead?
Awarded May 29 at 20:51
Meaning of “Lor’ lumme if there ain’t another on ’em!” from “Five Children and It”
Awarded May 29 at 20:12
What does “world outlook” mean in this context?
Awarded May 29 at 8:40
Short British horror story about a selective, helmet-like memory eraser
Awarded May 29 at 8:05
Boy fooled a newspaper-boy to tell the other villagers of a marriage
Awarded May 27 at 16:21
Why does Rebecca kill Jose Arcadio in 100 Years of Solitude?
Awarded May 27 at 13:26
What is the meaning of “pools of gold” in “Nineteen Eighty-Four”?
Awarded May 27 at 7:27
Online Latin version of the “Crater Hermetis”
Awarded May 27 at 3:40
What is the difference in pronunciation between the two types of folio abbreviations: f. and ff.?
Awarded May 24 at 5:32
Where was Jeff Nuttall's “Bomb Culture” discussed in Parliament?
Awarded May 22 at 17:16
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Awarded May 21 at 3:56
Looking for a children's book about a boy who drifts to a mysterious island on an inflatable tube after being washed out to sea
Awarded May 20 at 13:33
Why is the Marquis de Sade “suddenly a block of abyss”?
Awarded May 19 at 10:45
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Awarded May 17 at 6:02
Why did Hamlet tell Ophelia: “Get thee to a nunnery!”?
Awarded May 14 at 20:05
Can Byronic heroes be funny?
Awarded May 14 at 4:10
What does “speed the plow” mean in David Mamet's play?
Awarded May 13 at 7:20
Katherine Anne Porter's “HE”: What is He?
Awarded May 12 at 17:26
What is the meaning of Akutagawa's reference to a centaur?
Awarded May 12 at 13:04
Book about a single-mother family, children go to a hollow tree
Awarded May 11 at 15:56
Book with unicorn protagonist who plays music
Awarded May 6 at 14:05
Is the “Lister Foundation” in “Catcher in the Rye” a real organization?
Awarded May 6 at 5:34
Meaning of the phrase “If ever a man leaped across time into the raw…”
Awarded May 5 at 9:40
What do you call the “message” written before a poem?
Awarded May 4 at 5:43
Why does Mr Merdle ask for a penknife with a darker handle in “Little Dorrit”?
Awarded May 2 at 9:39
Finding a book involving a boy and carnival
Awarded Apr 30 at 17:06
Charles Bukowski's poem about waking up every morning and trying to be a poet/writer
Awarded Apr 30 at 17:01
Can “women echoed” be considered a figure of speech?
Awarded Apr 29 at 23:40
Pre-2010 book: “Jaws” in a library
Awarded Apr 29 at 9:32
Who speculated that the sin for which there is no forgiveness is destroying love in another person?
Awarded Apr 25 at 9:46
Guy-Charles Cros quoted by Osamu Dazai: “comme un crapaud contourne une pierre”
Awarded Apr 25 at 4:57
“promising with” meaning
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