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What is the meaning of Brodsky’s saying in the context of Sagan & Schneider’s book “Into the Cool”?
Awarded 13 hours ago
What does “they were in name his subjects” mean?
Awarded Jan 19 at 10:30
What is the theology of Little Women?
Awarded Jan 19 at 3:35
Do the witches in Macbeth ever mention “eye of bat and tongue of frog”?
Awarded Jan 16 at 9:20
Does this quote by Martial really exist?
Awarded Jan 14 at 8:15
Story ID: U.S. soldier mistaken for football star in Japan
Awarded Jan 13 at 5:05
A slightly different interpretation in the poem “Boat Stealing” by Wordsworth
Awarded Jan 12 at 14:30
A quote supposedly from Gustave Flaubert
Awarded Jan 12 at 0:15
Why were they keeping the mother from helping the daughter in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Awarded Jan 11 at 6:10
Who is Brenner in The Secret Generations?
Awarded Jan 10 at 15:15
Meaning of these dialect words and phrases from Artemus Ward, “On Forts”
Awarded Jan 10 at 9:40
Meaning of “cloudless at dawn” and connection with Shakespeare's head?
Awarded Jan 9 at 18:30
Can someone elaborate on the subject of “Discursive Hybridity” in Don Quixote?
Awarded Jan 9 at 12:45
Is there a consistent set of messages that run throughout the works of Thomas Pynchon?
Awarded Jan 9 at 10:30
What is the meaning of “editorial novelist” and “literary dude”?
Awarded Jan 9 at 10:30
Is replacing names with pronouns common in multiple points of view narration?
Awarded Jan 8 at 7:15
In what tradition are sagas named some variation of the protagonist's name?
Awarded Jan 7 at 11:40
What do you call this part of a comic book/graphic novel?
Awarded Jan 6 at 11:35
What does “Do you think falsehood is less powerful than bile or a rabid dog?” mean in Marcus Aurelius's Meditations?
Awarded Jan 4 at 10:55
19th-century French “flash fiction” writer/journalist
Awarded Jan 3 at 12:10
Looking for an old sci-fi tale about time-traveling
Awarded Dec 31 '19 at 12:25
How is it possible for Antonio to go bankrupt?
Awarded Dec 31 '19 at 12:25
What does H. G. Wells means by “Subject Races” in The War in the Air?
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 19:10
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Dec 29 '19 at 19:00
I know a story, but cannot find where I read it
Awarded Dec 26 '19 at 23:50
Does Countess Natalia Rostova let Prince Andrei die so Nikolai could inherit all of Marya's wealth?
Awarded Dec 21 '19 at 7:25
Short Story: Duel between a magical creature and a master accountant
Awarded Dec 18 '19 at 18:55
Who was Wodehouse’s intended audience for Jeeves and Wooster?
Awarded Dec 17 '19 at 15:15
In “Pride and Prejudice”, if either Lizzy or Jane (or Lydia) had a son, then would that son inherit Longbourn? [duplicate]
Awarded Dec 17 '19 at 9:50
Literary influences on Arundhati Roy, author of God of Small Things?
Awarded Dec 16 '19 at 16:00
Trying to find a short story I read in the early 1960s about soldiers time traveling back to the civil war
Awarded Dec 12 '19 at 7:30
I'm looking for a book that my teacher wrote
Awarded Dec 10 '19 at 19:35
Converting poetry to prose
Awarded Dec 10 '19 at 11:05
What is the theme of “The Deserted Road” by Sheila Burnford?
Awarded Dec 9 '19 at 3:05
Looking For a Specific O. Henry Story
Awarded Dec 7 '19 at 8:05
“inlooped flags” in Whitman's poem
Awarded Dec 3 '19 at 19:55
What are these letters in unicode?
Awarded Dec 1 '19 at 14:45
What does Cassius mean when he refers to his mother?
Awarded Nov 29 '19 at 8:45
What is the meaning behind Poe's “The Assignation”?
Awarded Nov 27 '19 at 17:30
Social discrimination commentary in the Kite Runner
Awarded Nov 26 '19 at 18:40
What is the Distracted Preacher never anxious to do in this long sentence?
Awarded Nov 26 '19 at 0:15
What is meant by 'patient' in Hamlet's famous soliloquy?
Awarded Nov 24 '19 at 18:25
What source did Thomas Medwin use for the argument of his translation of Prometheus Bound?
Awarded Nov 24 '19 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 '19 at 22:15
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Awarded Nov 23 '19 at 18:55
Has Piggy done anything evil or immoral in Lord of the Flies? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 22 '19 at 10:40
How can enjambment be used to enhance rhythm in a poem?
Awarded Nov 20 '19 at 16:00
Short story where a king uses a tiger to punish the accused
Awarded Nov 19 '19 at 18:10
Did Ezra Pound write something like “The word communicates the thought, the tone the emotions”?
Awarded Nov 19 '19 at 16:10
Name for genre of stories where the characters are narrative-aware
Awarded Nov 18 '19 at 17:25
When was the Holy Grail first depicted as an object to be owned by its seeker?
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 20:25
Short story identification: Color of the Taj Mahal, mother says “Death rides a fast horse behind me”
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 17:20
How to understand “made a picture” and “dates can work out”?
Awarded Nov 17 '19 at 10:50
What is original Persian text of Rumi for the following English translation?
Awarded Nov 16 '19 at 22:05
Who does “he” refer to in this passage from Les Miserables?
Awarded Nov 16 '19 at 4:15
Looking for a story about a Confederate leader in the US civil war
Awarded Nov 13 '19 at 16:25
What is the origin of Dream's helm in Neil Gaiman's “The Sandman”?
Awarded Nov 11 '19 at 20:35
The meaning of the poem “Crucified” by Kahlil Gibran
Awarded Nov 10 '19 at 16:00
Which London streets mentioned in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are fictional?
Awarded Nov 10 '19 at 16:00
Trying to find a comic strip about “What your clothes say about you”
Awarded Nov 9 '19 at 19:25
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