Literature Beta

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Identifying some Maupassant short stories
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What does “a star” symbolize here?
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“You have to take pains so the goods won't go off” from The Witcher
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Second person narrative [closed]
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Why is the gesture of the rebel noble in “The Man with the Scar”?
Awarded Apr 7 at 22:28
What is the meaning of “the least bit” in these affirmative clauses by John Galsworthy?
Awarded Apr 7 at 16:50
A man is in court because a company wants his prostheses back
Awarded Apr 5 at 20:40
What's the first appearance of the rhyme about “He died defending his right of way”?
Awarded Apr 3 at 9:41
What kind of censorship was Dostoevsky avoiding by obscuring place names?
Awarded Apr 3 at 1:01
In “Adventure of the Priory School”, what is going on with the reward money and the cheque?
Awarded Apr 2 at 5:58
What do superscript circles mean in poetry?
Awarded Apr 2 at 4:27
Which book by Steven Brust has “A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be”?
Awarded Mar 31 at 0:50
What is the cultural history of family “kissing” in Victorian/Edwardian novels?
Awarded Mar 30 at 2:06
King on a Boat Ride Hears a Sound, Oarsman vs. Advisor Efficiency in Determining
Awarded Mar 27 at 19:40
In The Blue Cross, what is the mailbag trick?
Awarded Mar 26 at 13:56
What meter are “I lik the bred” poems in?
Awarded Mar 24 at 22:42
Political Allegory in Shepheardes Calendar
Awarded Mar 24 at 21:51
Does Aldonza Lorenzo appear as a real character in Don Quixote?
Awarded Mar 24 at 8:05
Journalist travels to Germany to research a WWII woman, someone named Miriam is involved
Awarded Mar 21 at 9:56
English translation of “Encargo”
Awarded Mar 21 at 7:56
Where does Tomyris promise to retreat?
Awarded Mar 20 at 21:31
What might “And God, for a Frontier.” mean in “I am afraid to own a Body—”?
Awarded Mar 18 at 21:03
What is this children's/young adult book with an abandoned house and a scarab beetle?
Awarded Mar 16 at 22:45
The earliest novel with a robot who isn't “human enough”
Awarded Mar 16 at 5:26
Identify a children's story about a little girl who collected items, had a monster in the basement, and solved a dog-napping mystery!
Awarded Mar 15 at 20:04
What figure of speech does “alive enough to have strength to die” by Hardy contain?
Awarded Mar 15 at 14:27
William Ernest Henley's “Invictus”
Awarded Mar 10 at 15:45
When and how was the phrase “these dark Satanic mills” in Blake's “Jerusalem” first altered to “those dark Satanic mills”?
Awarded Mar 10 at 14:55
Quote about being better not to give something than to take away
Awarded Mar 8 at 20:16
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Awarded Mar 7 at 18:15
What does “mirror in my bathroom” mean?
Awarded Mar 7 at 10:49
What was Shakespeare's inspiration for the several cross-dressing episodes in his plays?
Awarded Mar 7 at 3:05
I'm looking for a certain haiku about kusarigama in Japanese
Awarded Mar 6 at 12:20
Meaning of dash and initial substitution in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
Awarded Mar 6 at 9:03
MLK Jr. quote about speaking out against anti-Semitism even if Jewish leaders say they don't need the help
Awarded Mar 5 at 17:47
You can enter prison for reading in Belarus, why?
Awarded Mar 3 at 21:26
What is the main idea behind Thomas Carlyle's “Signs of the Times”? [closed]
Awarded Mar 2 at 21:56
In the short story “The Last Lesson” by Alphonse Daudet, what do the following signify?
Awarded Feb 28 at 12:36
Is Raymond having an affair with Masson's wife?
Awarded Feb 24 at 15:10
Did anastrophe in English poetry have to do with French influence?
Awarded Feb 24 at 8:42
If a novel has different narrators for each chapter, is it metafictional?
Awarded Feb 23 at 16:15
Book from the 80s or 90s set in an abandoned Catskills hotel
Awarded Feb 23 at 11:45
What is the meaning of “broads” in Hemingway's short story Fifty Grand?
Awarded Feb 22 at 12:16
The first line of “God's Grandeur”
Awarded Feb 22 at 10:18
What does “Ministry of Angels” refer to “The History of Spiritualism”?
Awarded Feb 21 at 6:05
What does the sentence “We call people things” mean?
Awarded Feb 20 at 20:16
Children's historical mystery with carved rose pressed to unveil secret
Awarded Feb 20 at 9:10
What does “withal” mean in a line in Romeo and Juliet?
Awarded Feb 19 at 15:03
Why does Mr. Pumblechook call Mrs. Joe “mum”?
Awarded Feb 18 at 9:28
What is the “manhood of a Roman recovery” in John Milton's Areopagitica?
Awarded Feb 16 at 5:33
“Cease, cows, life is short” - what does it mean?
Awarded Feb 15 at 3:32
Robot Beings who are hunted for fuel who say “Toot Toot” to each other
Awarded Feb 13 at 17:06
What does “branch of Ares” mean in book II of “The Iliad”?
Awarded Feb 13 at 11:08
Meaning of “and light shows between his tightly buttoned torso and his father’s leg.”
Awarded Feb 13 at 9:10
In what way does Sun Tzu square “put your soldiers in desperate straits” with his earlier chapter
Awarded Feb 12 at 20:17
What figure of speech is “change of mood” in Robert Frost's “Dust of Snow”?
Awarded Feb 12 at 18:33
What is meant by the “level of feeling” with respect to the tone of a text?
Awarded Feb 11 at 14:25
In “Should Wizard Hit Mommy?” is Claire white? [duplicate]
Awarded Feb 11 at 12:04
What does this quatrain of Goethe's (“Gesang der Geister über den Wassern”) mean?
Awarded Feb 10 at 14:13
A timeslip murder mystery from the 70s/80s
Awarded Feb 10 at 12:05
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