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Story about a man who bets his head but not his neck with the devil
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Was Edmund in the Narnia series loosely inspired by Edmund in King Lear?
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How to read "truths in Nietzsche’s sense of the word"
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Does Gandalf ever say this in the book "The Hobbit", or is it made up for the movie?
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Why are Freud and Lacan still seen as important to literary criticism when their theories are discredited?
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Accented è in Blake's "The little ones leapèd, and shoutèd, and laugh'd / And all the hills echoèd."
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Dystopian short story read in US high school: boy and man travel through ancient ruins which are actually our modern-day civilisation
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What is meant by the title "The Color of Money"?
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Would the chorus leader typically speak/sing along with the chorus in classical Greek plays?
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In "On The Face of It" by Susan Hill, why did the author decide to kill Mr. Lamb at the end of the story?
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What does "minds her helium like a lady" mean in "The Terrible Voyage of the Toad"?
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What is meant by "without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley" in A Christmas Carol?
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Do we have any solid evidence for how much material Middleton contributed to Macbeth?
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Who "dribbled a lot and wasn’t allowed anything sharp" in "Good Omens"?
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Why is the last title in Proust's "Search For Lost Time" not consistently translated as "Time Found Again"?
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Explain the 28 Feb 2022 Dilbert cartoon use of the phrase "sticking the landing"
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Is the name Crowley in Good Omens a reference to the famous occultist?
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What does Borges' reference to the Greek mean in "The Lottery in Babylon"?
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How does the old norse kenning 'nausta blakks hlé-mána gífrs drífu gim-slöngvir' break down into 'warrior'
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Meaning of "Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe" in To Kill A Mockingbird
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Do the female Dwarves in Tolkien's Legendarium also have beards?
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Is there a central theme in I, Robot?
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Origin of the war-cry "Eulalia" in Brian Jacques's Redwall series?
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Why does Aphrodite speak like this while disguised as the old woman?
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Was Holmes written as a drug user in A Study In Scarlet?
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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?
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Why are there so many references to Moneylenders and Jews in 19th century fiction?
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Identify a (post nuclear?) fallout story
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In Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver claims that 'princes seldom get their meat hot'. What does Gulliver (and Swift) mean by that?
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Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?
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Is the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt a joke, or is it serious?
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Has a parody of a work of literature ever become more successful than the original work?
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What is "the line children draw to represent a bird in flight"?
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Why does the prophecy imply Macbeth has to murder the king?
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When and where was 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu first adopted outside of China?
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Everyone keeps diaries due to regular, town-wide amnesia
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Short story about paranoid parents whose baby dies in the barbed wire set up to protect it
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A pair of children decide that their neighbor is a witch and convince her to try flying
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What is the history of the universe/canon/word-of-god approach to literature?
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What did the men use to destroy Sandleford Warren?
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What Confederate counterfactual story features Florida as an independent tourist republic?
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What's the evidence for "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" being secretly set in Edinburgh?
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Origin and significance of E-I-E-I-O in the Old MacDonald song
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How did Ursula Le Guin translate the Tao Te Ching / Dao De Jing?
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Why was the ending of "And Then There Were None" changed for the stage version?
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Has the text of Premchand's banned short-story collection Soz-e-Watan survived?
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In which version of "Snow White" is her name really "Lips Red as Blood, Hair Black as Ebony, Skin White as Snow"?
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Did T.S. Eliot really plagiarize in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
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Story about father who looks through microscope for the first time
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How familiar would the "Blind men and an elephant" tale be in the West?
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Why does Valentine refer to her father's second wife as her "mother-in-law"?
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What is the source of Mr. Norrell's wealth?
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Who wrote the Boxcar Children books after Gertrude Chandler Warner's death?
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Why does this copy of the Iliad mention "the will of God"?
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What are these pink papers with book text written on them?
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What is the opposite of deus ex machina?
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Why does the portrayal of fate in the Odyssey differ from that of the Iliad?
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What is the earliest reference in fiction to a government-approved thieves guild?
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In Great Expectations, who is the man at the pub in Chapter Ten?
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Ogden Nash poem on hiccups
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