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Trying to find a short story I read in the early 1960s about soldiers time traveling back to the civil war
Awarded 2 days ago
I'm looking for a book that my teacher wrote
Awarded Dec 10 at 19:35
Converting poetry to prose
Awarded Dec 10 at 11:05
What is the theme of “The Deserted Road” by Sheila Burnford?
Awarded Dec 9 at 3:05
Looking For a Specific O. Henry Story
Awarded Dec 7 at 8:05
“inlooped flags” in Whitman's poem
Awarded Dec 3 at 19:55
What are these letters in unicode?
Awarded Dec 1 at 14:45
What does Cassius mean when he refers to his mother?
Awarded Nov 29 at 8:45
What is the meaning behind Poe's “The Assignation”?
Awarded Nov 27 at 17:30
Social discrimination commentary in the Kite Runner
Awarded Nov 26 at 18:40
What is the Distracted Preacher never anxious to do in this long sentence?
Awarded Nov 26 at 0:15
What is meant by 'patient' in Hamlet's famous soliloquy?
Awarded Nov 24 at 18:25
What source did Thomas Medwin use for the argument of his translation of Prometheus Bound?
Awarded Nov 24 at 8:15
Looking for story where a woman calls for help by pretending to be ordering meat over the phone or something
Awarded Nov 23 at 22:15
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Awarded Nov 23 at 18:55
Has Piggy done anything evil or immoral in Lord of the Flies? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 22 at 10:40
How can enjambment be used to enhance rhythm in a poem?
Awarded Nov 20 at 16:00
Short story where a king uses a tiger to punish the accused
Awarded Nov 19 at 18:10
Did Ezra Pound write something like “The word communicates the thought, the tone the emotions”?
Awarded Nov 19 at 16:10
Name for genre of stories where the characters are narrative-aware
Awarded Nov 18 at 17:25
When was the Holy Grail first depicted as an object to be owned by its seeker?
Awarded Nov 17 at 20:25
Short story identification: Color of the Taj Mahal, mother says “Death rides a fast horse behind me”
Awarded Nov 17 at 17:20
How to understand “made a picture” and “dates can work out”?
Awarded Nov 17 at 10:50
What is original Persian text of Rumi for the following English translation?
Awarded Nov 16 at 22:05
Who does “he” refer to in this passage from Les Miserables?
Awarded Nov 16 at 4:15
Looking for a story about a Confederate leader in the US civil war
Awarded Nov 13 at 16:25
What is the origin of Dream's helm in Neil Gaiman's “The Sandman”?
Awarded Nov 11 at 20:35
The meaning of the poem “Crucified” by Kahlil Gibran
Awarded Nov 10 at 16:00
Which London streets mentioned in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are fictional?
Awarded Nov 10 at 16:00
Trying to find a comic strip about “What your clothes say about you”
Awarded Nov 9 at 19:25
In “Howl”, what does “Blake-light tragedy” mean?
Awarded Nov 6 at 20:15
Trying to find a particular anecdote about programming [closed]
Awarded Nov 5 at 20:00
Story about siblings crossing the United States on foot
Awarded Nov 5 at 12:40
Has Ernest Hemingway affected James Joyce's writing style? Or reversely? [closed]
Awarded Nov 3 at 9:55
An undecipherable part of 'Gold Fish' by Raymond Chandler
Awarded Nov 2 at 12:10
Was Afghanistan considered tropical or was Holmes wrong?
Awarded Nov 1 at 23:55
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Awarded Nov 1 at 8:40
A king commissioned an ever growing map of his kingdom
Awarded Oct 31 at 22:55
What young adult series involved a club of boys who bought a submarine?
Awarded Oct 31 at 13:25
Could T.S. Eliot's namedrop early on in Catch-22 be a play on The Wasteland
Awarded Oct 30 at 8:00
Does anybody know where the Hemingway reference is located in The Deer Park?
Awarded Oct 28 at 12:45
Story/children's story about a middle/high school boy asking out two girls to prom
Awarded Oct 28 at 0:10
What's the meaning of the last two sentences in Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3?
Awarded Oct 24 at 15:35
Meaning of the prose of Monsieur Jourdain
Awarded Oct 24 at 15:35
What does “get to” mean in “Hillbilly Elegy”?
Awarded Oct 24 at 15:35
What does “ceremony of innocence” mean In “The Second Coming”?
Awarded Oct 23 at 18:55
What does it mean when Ralph is thinking about Piggy's death in Lord of the Flies by Golding
Awarded Oct 21 at 9:15
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Awarded Oct 21 at 2:15
Is there a math mistake in Moby Dick Chapter 99?
Awarded Oct 18 at 0:30
What does abbreviation “nk” means in line spacing? [closed]
Awarded Oct 17 at 8:30
In what year do the events of The Giver take place?
Awarded Oct 16 at 7:20
What does Athena’s statement to Zeus at the beginning of The Odyssey reveal?
Awarded Oct 14 at 10:00
In Heart of Darkness, why did native Africans love Kurtz?
Awarded Oct 14 at 8:40
Why didn't Harry and Hermione Granger get married?
Awarded Oct 10 at 18:05
Understanding the 2018 and 2019 Nobel prizes
Awarded Oct 10 at 14:45
Typographical inconsistency in James Joyce's “Araby”
Awarded Oct 10 at 11:45
What is the meter of the poem “Snow” by Louis MacNeice?
Awarded Oct 10 at 8:55
Is there a canonical order to HP Lovecraft's work?
Awarded Oct 8 at 14:55
Children’s story: boy accidentally hits bird with stone and nurses back to health. man hurts it on purpose nurses it back to get gift
Awarded Oct 5 at 19:15
Meaning/translation of title “The Light Fantastic” by Terry Pratchett
Awarded Sep 29 at 8:55
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