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Did T.S. Eliot really plagiarize in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
Awarded Oct 21 at 6:26
Story about father who looks through microscope for the first time
Awarded Oct 21 at 4:48
How familiar would the "Blind men and an elephant" tale be in the West?
Awarded Oct 19 at 7:22
Why does Valentine refer to her father's second wife as her "mother-in-law"?
Awarded Oct 16 at 18:35
What is the source of Mr. Norrell's wealth?
Awarded Oct 14 at 11:09
Who wrote the Boxcar Children books after Gertrude Chandler Warner's death?
Awarded Oct 13 at 12:18
Why does this copy of the Iliad mention "the will of God"?
Awarded Sep 29 at 18:37
What are these pink papers with book text written on them?
Awarded Sep 28 at 17:46
What is the opposite of deus ex machina?
Awarded Sep 21 at 6:34
Why does the portrayal of fate in the Odyssey differ from that of the Iliad?
Awarded Sep 20 at 21:36
What is the earliest reference in fiction to a government-approved thieves guild?
Awarded Sep 19 at 1:22
In Great Expectations, who is the man at the pub in Chapter Ten?
Awarded Sep 14 at 15:07
Ogden Nash poem on hiccups
Awarded Sep 13 at 17:47
What is a Daniel?
Awarded Sep 13 at 11:42
How does "handwriting" provide evidence for dating Beowulf's composition to "the first half of the eighth century"?
Awarded Sep 4 at 19:57
Identification of a short story about a short irrefutable self-evident proof that God exists that is kept secret
Awarded Aug 29 at 20:25
Why is a "cucumber sandwich" specifically used as what English faith has "only just enough teeth to get through"?
Awarded Aug 25 at 14:34
Use of "pounds" instead of "roubles" in passage of "The Idiot"
Awarded Aug 24 at 7:37
Meaning of 'Yawl write, hear?'
Awarded Aug 19 at 14:05
Do I need to read the Redwall books in any specific order?
Awarded Jul 28 at 11:42
Is Casanunda a reference in "Witches Abroad"?
Awarded Jul 19 at 17:01
YA novel that I read in 1987 at school - two young British guys captured by terrorists and escape from a pit
Awarded Jul 13 at 7:08
Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
Awarded Jul 12 at 7:51
Original Russian text of this review of Crime and Punishment
Awarded Jul 2 at 8:42
What specifically is being described as stupid and old-fashioned in this passage on arranged marriage?
Awarded Jun 28 at 0:41
How many gables are there in the four-gabled house?
Awarded Jun 23 at 11:06
Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”?
Awarded Jun 20 at 10:27
A detective story about money printing
Awarded Jun 18 at 7:02
Why did George have to kill this character?
Awarded Jun 16 at 15:36
Short story about a detective and criminal who disguise themselves and interact while in pursuit
Awarded Jun 16 at 10:51
Sci-fi short story about not getting into cars with strangers
Awarded Jun 15 at 21:34
Looking for an O.Henry story where a young man from the country working in the city marries a socialite and then goes for a visit to his home
Awarded Jun 12 at 19:05
Short story where spectators at a sports match shine a mirror at the referee and burn him
Awarded Jun 12 at 18:49
How does the Ministry of Love know your worst fear?
Awarded Jun 12 at 9:32
What is the unmentionable Italian instrument in Tristram Shandy?
Awarded Jun 8 at 17:06
In what sense did Yossarian love the chaplain?
Awarded May 20 at 23:48
What literary work is being referred to in this limerick in which "The earth, like an orange, is blue"?
Awarded May 17 at 20:35
How could sixty cents of $1.87 be in pennies?
Awarded May 17 at 15:04
Is Babar an African or Asian elephant?
Awarded May 16 at 15:26
In Brave New World, If Lenina is a beta, why does she wear green?
Awarded May 14 at 2:17
How fictionalised is "Dust Tracks on a Road"?
Awarded May 13 at 13:42
In what Chinese fairy tale does a painter disappear into his own painting?
Awarded May 11 at 23:42
Why do some paperbacks have shortened front covers?
Awarded May 11 at 21:50
How did they cover 1,000 miles in 110 days at a speed of 5 miles per day?
Awarded May 3 at 21:56
A timeslip murder mystery from the 70s/80s
Awarded May 2 at 0:52
Is alliteration adjacent words and/or close together words starting with the same letter? If words between are permitted then how many?
Awarded Apr 29 at 23:40
What is the "a-" prefix in "a-flying" and "a-getting" in Herrick's "To the Virgins"?
Awarded Apr 22 at 1:16
Why was Fontane's copy of Thackeray's Vanity Fair confiscated by English customs?
Awarded Apr 18 at 5:43
Is there a term for epic poetry’s detailed, successive introductions of multiple characters?
Awarded Apr 16 at 9:39
About Sappho's epigram for the little girl Aithopia: first line (manuscript tradition and experts' take), and authorship
Awarded Apr 15 at 6:52
What are the "torch dance" and "garter dance", in 19th-century Germany?
Awarded Apr 13 at 20:49
What is the meaning of “the drumstick” in this novel by John Galsworthy?
Awarded Apr 10 at 1:46
What is so special about a fruit being in season for eight days?
Awarded Apr 8 at 0:00
What was the public's initial reaction to Virginia Woolf's Orlando?
Awarded Apr 3 at 1:37
What does "vamos the ranch" mean in this Mark Twain short story?
Awarded Mar 31 at 12:21
What is the "Isle of the Blessed" and why should a girl see it before marriage?
Awarded Mar 31 at 12:21
Chilli peppers in fifteenth-century India?
Awarded Mar 29 at 10:28
What meter are "I lik the bred" poems in?
Awarded Mar 25 at 20:46
Why is the title of "Le Morte d'Arthur" in French if the book is in English?
Awarded Mar 25 at 4:31
What does "Maybe it's a Big Horse I'm Morporkian" mean?
Awarded Mar 21 at 23:46
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