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Is Casanunda a reference in “Witches Abroad”?
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YA novel that I read in 1987 at school - two young British guys captured by terrorists and escape from a pit
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Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
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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
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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
No mayonnaise in Ireland?
Awarded Mar 21 at 19:45
Did Benjamin Franklin mix up his friends?
Awarded Mar 20 at 9:50
What does “skimmish” mean, in this eye dialect?
Awarded Mar 20 at 3:18
When and why did “No man is an island” start being regarded as a poem?
Awarded Mar 16 at 1:04
What does “But… They went home” mean in Maya Angelou's “They Went Home”?
Awarded Mar 15 at 20:25
What were the parts of each of the six Seuss books that ceased publication in March 2021 that were problematic?
Awarded Mar 5 at 2:35
“My father declared he should invent a slip button”
Awarded Mar 4 at 0:17
What does “Bool-var” mean in “In the Midst of Alarms”?
Awarded Mar 2 at 15:47
What makes a poem a Grook?
Awarded Feb 27 at 20:55
Since when has Shakespeare's “Scottish play” been considered unlucky?
Awarded Feb 24 at 4:02
What does “if the court knows herself” mean?
Awarded Feb 20 at 17:18
What was the unspeakable act that V.S. Naipaul committed while at Oxford University?
Awarded Feb 17 at 4:04
How long is the Nijni-Novgorod trade fair?
Awarded Feb 16 at 20:42
Medical school that brainwashes students, run by drug company that does unethical experiments
Awarded Feb 14 at 15:57
What does the raven say to Ged when he first enters the school at Roke?
Awarded Feb 12 at 16:01
Why couldn't Mr Dobbins become a doctor in “Tom Sawyer”?
Awarded Feb 9 at 22:16
Young adult fantasy book about a girl with gray eyes and powers related to metal
Awarded Feb 9 at 10:57
In The Mezzotint by M. R. James, what is a “Door Bible”?
Awarded Feb 8 at 1:27
How do these lines in Shakespeare's Sonnet 151 mean what they're supposed to?
Awarded Feb 6 at 8:33
What is it with British occultism and Brussels sprouts?
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