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How does soap undermine the church in "A Connecticut Yankee"?
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Children’s book with a mouse called Nils
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Short story about a traveling vampire cage fighter
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Why did Urquhart choose "neck of a goose" in his English translation of Gargantua?
Awarded 2 days ago
What is the name of German-language horror or crime pulp novel series from late 80s/early 90s?
Awarded 2 days ago
Aren't there any thought criminals who commit suicide in Oceania and what would it mean for the government?
Awarded Jun 22 at 3:41
Meaning of 'pelted clover' and 'gorged pastures' in Louise Glück poem?
Awarded Jun 20 at 17:22
Story about a candidate who fails an audition because they were volunteering the previous day
Awarded Jun 20 at 3:57
Term for a story that is a perfect loop
Awarded Jun 19 at 15:15
Is this an accurate explanation of Jakobson's definition of the "true hallmark of poetry"?
Awarded Jun 19 at 14:40
Book where people in a town commit suicide after a vision of the Virgin Mary [closed]
Awarded Jun 13 at 17:10
A Book with a Tree and Boy on the Cover
Awarded Jun 13 at 4:15
What does "Pulled-up" mean in the Lawrence Joseph poem Rubaiyat?
Awarded Jun 12 at 6:21
In metrical poetry, what is equal timed?
Awarded Jun 10 at 18:09
Latin America (Brazil?) short stories. Just recall fragments: A lone traveler
Awarded Jun 10 at 7:25
What is meant by "I'm going to push my stuff in" in Dorothy Sayers's "Strong Poison"?
Awarded Jun 9 at 6:34
Help finding a book/short story about a man who comes back from the dead and finds himself in a world that's forgotten fear
Awarded Jun 6 at 23:28
Looking for a children's book about math, numbers, and puzzles
Awarded Jun 5 at 4:33
How well does the musical "Hamilton" conform to Aristotle's concept of mimesis?
Awarded May 31 at 15:51
Are the Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" books considered "difficult" to follow language-wise? [duplicate]
Awarded May 31 at 15:43
Explanation of “The faculty for myth is innate in the human race.”
Awarded May 28 at 14:17
Looking for children’s illustrated book about a boy, injured goose, and letting goose return to flock
Awarded May 26 at 20:01
Book read in 1970’s early 80’s about girl, sent to a house to stay. Tree or water spirits may feature also to do with flooding of stream in garden
Awarded May 26 at 20:01
What novel was referenced in the pilot episode of Suits?
Awarded May 26 at 13:18
Story about a murder that leads to an execution; turns out to be suicide
Awarded May 23 at 20:18
Story about a man who bets his head but not his neck with the devil
Awarded May 21 at 17:17
Source of "talent is formed in solitude", attributed to Goethe
Awarded May 17 at 17:15
Does Gandalf ever say this in the book "The Hobbit", or is it made up for the movie?
Awarded May 14 at 14:00
Confusing paragraph from the story 'Evans tries an O-level' by Colin Dexter
Awarded May 12 at 12:20
How is "They seem to have a lot of parsons there, don’t they?” a joke?
Awarded May 11 at 18:58
What does this paragraph from "Should Wizard Hit Mommy?" By John Updike mean? [duplicate]
Awarded May 10 at 9:31
Why is Phyllis a "ward of chancery"?
Awarded May 10 at 9:02
Meaning of a "dry palate" and "frozen rain" in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
Awarded May 7 at 20:28
Why does Tolkien keep referring to the Fellowship as "the Company"?
Awarded May 5 at 19:25
Old book: boy and girl co-dreaming serialised on BBC radio
Awarded May 5 at 19:20
How to read "truths in Nietzsche’s sense of the word"
Awarded May 4 at 13:11
Why is there an earlier book just like The Vanishing Half with a different title and author?
Awarded May 3 at 6:05
Why is Len Deighton so fond of American English?
Awarded May 1 at 12:31
What does 'diope' mean in the poem 'Pediatric Reflection' by Ogden Nash?
Awarded Apr 30 at 16:08
Looking for title of youth book, possibly SBS, ocean going salvage tug, North Atlantic, Argentine
Awarded Apr 30 at 0:20
Humorous quote about some minor indiscretion leading to a major crime
Awarded Apr 29 at 22:25
Satire of old lady laying flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier, Paris - what is this french short story?
Awarded Apr 29 at 7:21
Philanthropic scam in P. G. Wodehouse's "Something Fresh"
Awarded Apr 29 at 7:10
A company goes bankrupt after adopting "socialist" policies
Awarded Apr 28 at 13:02
Dystopian short story read in US high school: boy and man travel through ancient ruins which are actually our modern-day civilisation
Awarded Apr 28 at 10:26
Two men traveling through desert with sheep, older one holds water in mouth to reduce thirst and blows tobacco on sheep to remove ticks
Awarded Apr 27 at 9:37
Comic from an old newspaper about a girl running through a winter forest and collapsing, with the story "continuing"
Awarded Apr 26 at 19:21
Great Lakes story where fisherman and dog search islands for a show dog
Awarded Apr 25 at 1:51
How did Denisov reappear in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace?
Awarded Apr 22 at 15:11
Science fiction book in which a doctor treats a sociopathic child who killed her brother
Awarded Apr 21 at 6:10
5 stages of grief in An Inspector Calls
Awarded Apr 19 at 9:08
A Bengali novel about Cricket
Awarded Apr 18 at 19:56
Children’s sci fi novel about young girl who befriends a wheel-shaped alien on its planet
Awarded Apr 14 at 17:08
Is there actually such a thing as "OCR-pirated" books?
Awarded Apr 13 at 12:18
Why does Tolkien use neither quotes nor cursive writing, and all lower-case, in this specific "quote"?
Awarded Apr 12 at 13:40
Looking for a collection of British medical short stories circa 1950's
Awarded Apr 11 at 14:06
Is the phrase "memory therapy", used in Rain of Days, to encompass a broad range of practices?
Awarded Apr 10 at 21:05
From a Lacanian perspective, why did Kurtz go mad in Heart of Darkness?
Awarded Apr 8 at 21:27
One generic word for novels, short stories, poetry etc. as well as non-fictional books
Awarded Apr 5 at 3:41
Help finding adventure novel from the 70s or 80s, Operation Tango/Tonga/Tongo?
Awarded Apr 4 at 14:55
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