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In Seamus Heaney's 'North', why are the Vikings' voices "lifted in violence and epiphany"?
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In 'The Sign of the Four', what happened to the Sikh accomplices at the end?
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"There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea." Did Aristotle really say this?
Awarded Jan 19 at 13:32
Meaning of "Beneath the water of their lives" quote by Mitch Albom
Awarded Jan 18 at 5:17
Did Hemingway write about intentional contagion during World War I?
Awarded Jan 17 at 20:36
Book about kid finding a money printer when he goes down a well
Awarded Jan 17 at 12:30
Name for a fictional or mythological character who doesn't suffer personally, but whose family and friends all do?
Awarded Jan 13 at 16:03
Understanding "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
Awarded Jan 12 at 18:10
In Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver claims that 'princes seldom get their meat hot'. What does Gulliver (and Swift) mean by that?
Awarded Jan 11 at 3:40
Why does "It is better to incur a mild rebuke than to perform an onerous task" sound hilarious to Henry Sugar's friends?
Awarded Jan 8 at 6:08
Is there an equivalent to Orientalism in Eastern scholarship of the West?
Awarded Jan 7 at 12:46
Did William Blake intend The Tyger to resemble a nursery rhyme?
Awarded Jan 5 at 20:21
2 Related Poems by Rimbaud and Verlaine
Awarded Jan 5 at 16:20
Evidences of Manzoni's influence on Dun Karm poems
Awarded Jan 2 at 16:16
Book about barbedwire robot guardian to space portal jumping teen?
Awarded Jan 2 at 14:16
What is "the Throne of Mammon grey" in William Blake's "I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day"?
Awarded Dec 31 '21 at 22:48
1st person short story, MC=poisoner consulting with "client" - ends with his offering antidote for poison already given?
Awarded Dec 31 '21 at 20:36
YA or Juvenile short story anthology (textbook?)
Awarded Dec 30 '21 at 5:40
What is "the line children draw to represent a bird in flight"?
Awarded Dec 29 '21 at 15:47
Reference to "Sensible Susan" in E. Nesbit's New Treasure Seekers?
Awarded Dec 27 '21 at 20:50
Does "sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt" imply social class?
Awarded Dec 27 '21 at 8:17
Female detective helping to look for a missing boy book, made into a movie
Awarded Dec 27 '21 at 6:33
Why does the prophecy imply Macbeth has to murder the king?
Awarded Dec 26 '21 at 8:51
Book about farmer and animal that eats too much
Awarded Dec 25 '21 at 9:31
Connection (if any) between James Baldwin and "Easy Rider"? Why would he be signing a copy circa '60s or '70s?
Awarded Dec 24 '21 at 13:03
Why didn't Mercédès marry Edmond Dantès at the end in Count of Monte Cristo?
Awarded Dec 23 '21 at 15:11
Italian "Verismo" story: a farmer knows his wife cheats on him but he pretends he doesn't know it to avoid troubles
Awarded Dec 22 '21 at 10:26
Short story by Maugham about writer who sells their soul to see how they are remembered in the future, but their only mention is in this very story
Awarded Dec 22 '21 at 4:56
Appalachia, Chicago, 1920s, Gertie, 3 year old child run over by train in rail yard
Awarded Dec 21 '21 at 4:25
In Mary Tighe's Psyche, what is the gemstone referred to by allusion?
Awarded Dec 18 '21 at 22:07
Short story about paranoid parents whose baby dies in the barbed wire set up to protect it
Awarded Dec 18 '21 at 16:16
Looking for a Book about Alleged Suicide(s) Which Are Actually Murders
Awarded Dec 17 '21 at 6:12
Book or short story where crying is forbidden
Awarded Dec 17 '21 at 2:50
Whatever happened to Barthes' "science of literature"?
Awarded Dec 12 '21 at 18:45
What are "jigging veins of rhyming mother wits"?
Awarded Dec 12 '21 at 2:04
Looking for information about a comic book bound collection (various themes)
Awarded Dec 10 '21 at 16:30
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Awarded Dec 9 '21 at 18:25
Short Story about several Mall Santas
Awarded Dec 8 '21 at 21:11
Short story with a salacious piece of furniture being circularly regifted
Awarded Dec 6 '21 at 21:45
What does "worried stone" mean in this poem from "Tumor"?
Awarded Dec 6 '21 at 12:27
Repeated mentions of eggs in poems by Allen Ginsberg
Awarded Dec 5 '21 at 17:26
When did Macbeth kill Duncan's chamberlains?
Awarded Dec 5 '21 at 14:18
How did Henchard change after the auction incident?
Awarded Dec 3 '21 at 10:48
Was Philip Larkin factually correct when he implied that in 1955 the streets in Ireland were "end-on to hills" more often than those in England?
Awarded Dec 3 '21 at 5:56
What does "One fancied things sometimes—fancied a fellow was looking at you queerly" mean from And Then There Were None?
Awarded Dec 3 '21 at 3:36
Children's book about a child who captures tadpoles with his uncle
Awarded Nov 30 '21 at 20:03
Meaning of "with no why to how it keeps its mystery"
Awarded Nov 30 '21 at 16:42
What nationality do rabbits represent in "Maus"?
Awarded Nov 29 '21 at 21:15
Trying to find: short story about man meeting cannibal on train but escaping
Awarded Nov 29 '21 at 13:36
Meaning of "Her face, a revolving door, swings open and shut, open and shut"
Awarded Nov 28 '21 at 13:06
What is the correct title of Sara Coleridge's poem about the months?
Awarded Nov 26 '21 at 21:48
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Awarded Nov 26 '21 at 9:26
Catcher in the Rye - Chapter 1 "If I get a chance to remember that kind of stuff..."
Awarded Nov 26 '21 at 5:43
Actual meaning of Shakespeare's sonnet 30
Awarded Nov 25 '21 at 13:02
Source for the "monsters under our bed" quote attributed to Darwin
Awarded Nov 25 '21 at 10:46
What does "in Twos and Threes" mean in this Robert Bly poem?
Awarded Nov 25 '21 at 1:52
Meaning of this Graham Greene quote: "A story has no beginning or end ..."
Awarded Nov 24 '21 at 14:16
Looking for the name of a book written by a persecuted Christian in the late Roman Empire
Awarded Nov 22 '21 at 13:01
What does William Hazlitt mean about competitors in this letter to his son?
Awarded Nov 21 '21 at 7:55
Story about two brothers playing *gulli-danda*
Awarded Nov 21 '21 at 7:05
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