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What are the nets in Ender's Game? Are they based on anything in real life?
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What happened to the epic poem?
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Is there any animal internal monologue in The Lord of the Rings?
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What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
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What does Mr Darcy refer to when objecting to Mr Bennet's “want of propriety”?
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What was supposedly satanic about the Lord of the Rings?
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Why is Sergeant Shadwell obsessed with nipples?
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How did Mama and Papa bear know someone was sitting in their chairs?
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Why did attitudes change towards tragedy?
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What is the relationship between Heart of Darkness and The Hollow Men?
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What is the process to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize?
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Meaning/translation of title “The Light Fantastic” by Terry Pratchett
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What is the source of “You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love” (Shakespeare?)
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Did Charles Dickens change the endings of any of his books other than Great Expectations?
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What does the line “Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.” mean, from Hamlet?
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What is so satanic about Manchester?
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Short story about Gentlemen being told a tale by a young woman
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Why do the March sisters call their mother Marmee?
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What is the origin of the trope of an evil character whose name is not permitted to be spoken?
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What did O'Brien mean when he said this at the end of 1984?
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Where is Kafka's “The Trial” set?
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Do the *books* show that Hogwarts is in Scotland?
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Did William Shakespeare hide things in his writings?
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How could Frankenstein get the parts for his second creature?
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Did Pushkin ever deliberately copy the style of anyone else?
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Is John Milton's Lucifer a tragic hero?
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Why didn't The Last Battle mention Susan's reaction to her family's death?
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Was CS Lewis referencing the uncanny valley?
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How and why did the story of King Cnut change?
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What is the significance of Sauron never having a physical presence in the Lord of the Rings?
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How does interrupting Kubla Khan save humanity?
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What happened at the end of The Giver?
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Would a reader of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea miss anything essential without knowing about Jane Eyre?
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“The Dearest Charms in France” - French story about soldiers, a lottery, and a famous prostitute
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How do people “kiss their teeth” in Nalo Hopkinson's novels?
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Can the Count of Monte Cristo's calculation of poison dosage be explained?
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What were the three clues mentioned at end of Agatha Christie's And There Were None?
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Meaning of “d-n” in “'T is strange—the Hebrew noun which means 'I am,' the English always used to govern d—n”
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Was Rowling inspired by the railway station scene in Prince Caspian?
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What does “Printed for…” mean?
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Looking for a historical fiction book set in England, possibly about the War of the Roses
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Who wrote the well-known Outline of Chapter Contents in the Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake?
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What's the joke with “Best of Queen” in Good Omens?
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What are the different names of Fenrir / Fenris Wolf?
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Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?
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Were all of Shakespeare's plays fully in iambic pentameter?
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Had Keats read any of Homer's works before reading Chapman's translation of them?
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Pride and Prejudice: Why did Elizabeth think “my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me”?
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Was Rand al'Thor supposed to be a symbol for Jesus?
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Meaning of this line in “On seeing the Elgin Marbles”
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Looking for an old O. Henry story about a wealthy young man trying to woo a “genteel poor” young lady in New York City
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How much weight should we give authors' declarations of their intent after the fact?
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About Sappho's “Hector and Andromacha” poem
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Why don't Mr. Bennet's daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate?
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How much of The Song of Wandering Aengus by Yeats is based on Irish folklore?
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Was Tom Robinson's trial the only inconsistency between To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman?
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Which flood story was first?
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Why does Piggy's accent not matter?
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English short story where a wife makes an investigation officer eat the murder weapon
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Do traditional Japanese haikus always describe a moment?
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