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What does James Baldwin mean by 'democratic' in his open letter to Angela Davis?
Awarded 18 hours ago
Short story : angels show their animal creations to God
Awarded yesterday
What book involved forging one of the United States' founding documents?
Awarded yesterday
Is the phrase “lurking suspicion” in this context humour?
Awarded 2 days ago
Is Harry Potter a coming of age story?
Awarded 2 days ago
What is the children's book about a troll looking for a rope to hang his brother?
Awarded Aug 11 at 18:31
Trying to identify the source of a Roman short story about a senator and a slave
Awarded Aug 8 at 21:40
How is Enoch's story relevant to the rest of Wise Blood?
Awarded Aug 8 at 9:27
What is the intention and purpose behind the “dash style” book format compared to the “quote style” one?
Awarded Aug 7 at 5:42
How did the dwarves possibly “dig out” gigantic hallways in the mountains to create Moria with such “primitive” technology?
Awarded Aug 6 at 10:56
Identify an Archaeology Romantic Suspense or Mystery Novel - with nymphomaniacs! Well, one
Awarded Aug 5 at 8:43
What does Borges' reference to the Greek mean in “The Lottery in Babylon”?
Awarded Aug 4 at 22:36
What is the purpose of the redundant book titles printed in the bottom margin every few pages of many books? [duplicate]
Awarded Aug 4 at 5:55
Where did Camus define “the novel as the place where the human being is abandoned to other human beings”?
Awarded Jul 31 at 10:27
The name of a device by which an author reports the use of coarse language without quoting it?
Awarded Jul 30 at 19:40
Why are The Wild Swans by Andersen and The Six Swans by Grimm so similar to each other?
Awarded Jul 30 at 14:57
Meaning of capitalized nouns in a Lord Byron poem
Awarded Jul 27 at 19:19
What were the ages of Bilbo and Frodo for these six major plot points?
Awarded Jul 27 at 5:57
Where can I find an English translation of Pan Pingge Searching for Humanity (求仁录)?
Awarded Jul 26 at 5:33
What did Miss Bentley see in “A Month By The Lake” by H. E. Bates?
Awarded Jul 25 at 22:40
What exactly did the hobbits eat in the first half of The Fellowship of the Ring when journeying for many days?
Awarded Jul 25 at 5:41
Searching for a Whitman quote
Awarded Jul 24 at 18:57
Short (possibly children's) story set in Norfolk glorifying the English Countryside
Awarded Jul 24 at 18:57
Hot Cross Bun Paradox
Awarded Jul 24 at 7:25
In the middle part of The Fellowship of the Ring, how did Strider find and interpret that rock message supposedly from Gandalf?
Awarded Jul 22 at 4:49
In 1984 why does the Newspeak dictionary have numbered editions?
Awarded Jul 20 at 21:48
For and Against different Reading Orders for Narnia
Awarded Jul 20 at 13:33
Story about a European captain marrying a tribal woman, part of the plot similar to *The Count of Monte Cristo*?
Awarded Jul 20 at 7:40
Does this passage in King Lear develop the theme of compassion or truth?
Awarded Jul 17 at 20:35
Is there something I'm missing about the numerous songs in “The Fellowship of the Ring”?
Awarded Jul 16 at 20:55
What does it mean to “die game”?
Awarded Jul 15 at 6:57
What book of Eugène Sue's 'The Mysteries of the People' inspired M. Joly's 'Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli & Montesquieu', as claimed by U. Eco?
Awarded Jul 15 at 6:57
What does this metaphor mean: “You can die on St. Helena without being Napoleon.”
Awarded Jul 12 at 19:04
Who are the people Isaac Watts is talking about in “Improvement of the Mind”?
Awarded Jul 12 at 16:58
Story About a Boy Lost in the Wilderness
Awarded Jul 10 at 16:55
Brecht's Life of Galileo and the need for hero
Awarded Jul 9 at 11:47
What does GKC mean when he says “trees that seemed to take hold upon the stars like a brood of Ygdrasils”?
Awarded Jul 8 at 14:56
Identify a detailed-prose book of Aesop fables
Awarded Jul 8 at 11:50
Cannot understand part from 'Dreams from My Father' by Barack Obama
Awarded Jul 8 at 11:06
Use of the word 'aesthetic(s)' in this passage from Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
Awarded Jul 7 at 23:40
Young adult fantasy book about a girl with gray eyes and powers related to metal
Awarded Jul 7 at 19:26
How do Pierre and Natasha “lie to each other” in 'War and Peace'?
Awarded Jul 7 at 10:02
Meaning of ‘matted well’ and ‘silk gowns’ in Bleak House
Awarded Jul 6 at 13:17
Nine Princes in Amber: Questionable Lighthouse Stay
Awarded Jul 5 at 6:28
name of the phenomenon: accepting accusations and mold of character into the accused one
Awarded Jul 4 at 16:27
“Last summer's manifestations” here refers to which “manifestations and incidents”?
Awarded Jun 30 at 12:22
Does “coming and going on their own accord” refer to “ectoplasmic forms”? What does “will to do” mean?
Awarded Jun 29 at 11:32
Sentient manta rays living in Jupiter?
Awarded Jun 28 at 19:31
Who introduced the sonnet to English literature? Wyatt or Shakespeare?
Awarded Jun 28 at 15:42
Meaning of Greek concepts on omniscience in Amélie Nothomb's Soif
Awarded Jun 27 at 22:47
Analyzing the alliteration of the first line of Lolita
Awarded Jun 27 at 20:46
Source of the quote “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go” from Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Rumi)
Awarded Jun 27 at 8:49
What does “pre-Miracle” mean in this extract from the book “The fault in our stars”?
Awarded Jun 26 at 15:50
Book about a boy surviving in a forest with animal friends [duplicate]
Awarded Jun 23 at 21:01
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Awarded Jun 20 at 16:47
How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without discussing how to deal with Smaug?
Awarded Jun 20 at 10:36
Are any works of literature known to implement all of Polti's Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations?
Awarded Jun 19 at 16:41
Meaning of “Upon one other interest I have not yet touched—to me the weightiest and farthest—reaching of all”
Awarded Jun 18 at 14:27
Gift of the Magi: Literary Analysis: Symbolism and Ttime
Awarded Jun 18 at 1:20
Meaning of “held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner”
Awarded Jun 17 at 21:28
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