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Meaning of "furnished with a pipe and a supply of cold without" in Trollope's "Orley Farm"
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Looking for an old limerick mentioning a character named "Lady Jane"
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Is there a name for the literary device in the expression "Thanks, I hate it."?
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Meaning of "the field was found to be plowed as thoroughly as any young man at Oxford" in 'The Book of Dragons'
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Does this edit in The Magician's Nephew (from "had her bathe" to "had her bath") fundamentally change the meaning of the sentence?
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Why did literary critic Harold Bloom say something that didn't correspond to reality regarding Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
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Why did Mr Jaggers have death masks of two of his former clients, Great Expectations Chapter 24?
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What are the 1001 stories in One Thousand and One Nights?
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Why did Stephen King choose room number 217?
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Who was the poet who said something like "Now only God knows (what I meant to say in that poem)"
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What happened on April 22, 1838?
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In Vanity Fair, what is the meaning of "my s—"?
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What was the case where Sherlock answers Watson's private thoughts?
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What significance does the opening grid illustration of Burton’s 1,001 Nights have?
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Why does the Emperor-Over-the-Sea play such a small role in the Chronicles of Narnia?
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Who is Mrs LeFay in "The Magician's Nephew"?
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Did Alfred Tennyson ever read The Last of the Light Brigade?
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80s? Infected Man trapped in an Office tower with people trying to kill him
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Book of short stories I read as a kid; one story about a starving girl, one about a boy who stays forever young
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Identify a story about the kid who waves at the train
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When was the Holy Grail first depicted as an object to be owned by its seeker?
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Contrasting depictions of Asians in Tintin
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Meaning of the "quips" from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
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Why the smiling devils in Hergé's 'The Broken Ear'?
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Science fiction book in which a doctor treats a sociopathic child who killed her brother
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What does "N. takes M." mean in "Emma"?
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What does the clown mean by saying that brothels in the cities "shall stand for seed" in the second scene of "Measure for Measure"?
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Did Poirot fabricate a fingerprint in "The ABC Murders"?
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Censorship of African-American characters in "Tintin in America"
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What does "grinning" mean in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"?
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What was "standard shift" in the 1920's?
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If Phileas Fogg had a clock that showed the exact date and time, why didn't he realize that he had arrived a day early?
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Narrator in The Idiot
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Whose fingerprint is on the cover of "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"?
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Why Pallas in "The Raven"?
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What "Irish Oath" sounds like "Thoth"?
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Is there a canonical map of Thomas Hardy's Wessex?
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What is the distinction between "literary fiction" vs. "popular fiction"?
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What's up with the colors of Delirium's speech bubbles?
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In "The Sandman", what are nightmares for?
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What were the original two results for 'died in a blogging accident'?
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Meaning/significance of "All the King's horses" in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme?
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Does Don Quijote in fact say "Facts are the enemy of truth"?
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Did Dante plagiarize the Divine Comedy from Kitab al-Miraj?
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What was the earlier expose of racism that Twain wrote that was censored?
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Why is "Oranges and Lemons" supposed to describe child sacrifice?
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What does the Malvolio subplot add to Twelfth Night?
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Please identify the name and author of a short story about forbidden clocks
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Identify non-Doylian Holmes short story: Watson outstrips Sherlock and Mycroft
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What is the name of a short story where a computer insists 2+2 is 5?
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What classic mystery novels and stories led to "the butler did it" becoming a cliché?
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Accuracy of the translation of Baudelaire's "Au Lecteur": how to forge an opinion?
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What are chapter summary phrases called?
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Are there two Pooh?
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Is this a typo in my copy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
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Krazy language in Krazy Kat, 25 July 1936
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Why are all the schoolchildren referred to as guns in Clint Smith's "The Gun"?
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Were schoolteachers really paid substantially less than $45 per month in 1990s Ukraine?
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What does "...they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets..." mean?
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In 'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman, why is one 'Jack' named for a historical person
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