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What is the libellous meaning of ‘daffy-down-dilly’?
Awarded Mar 26 at 20:25
Meaning of a Trollope quotation about the “best dressed gentleman”
Awarded Mar 17 at 14:10
What are the “dark Satanic mills” in Blake's Jerusalem?
Awarded Mar 12 at 11:40
Why did Douglas Adams call Paul Neil Milne Johnstone the worst poet?
Awarded Mar 11 at 20:20
What’s the link between “The Amazing Maurice” and the Tiffany Aching books?
Awarded Mar 10 at 20:30
Why does Shakespeare sometimes use “do” with the verbs in his plays?
Awarded Mar 8 at 11:40
Which order is recommended for the “Commonwealth” novels?
Awarded Feb 28 at 22:05
Why did SAQ get re-translated?
Awarded Feb 20 at 23:40
How long had Bertha Mason been in the attic at the point of the events in Jane Eyre
Awarded Feb 3 at 13:10
Was Shakespeare a religious fanatic?
Awarded Jan 27 at 15:10
What are the nets in Ender's Game? Are they based on anything in real life?
Awarded Jan 20 at 15:00
What happened to the epic poem?
Awarded Jan 16 at 1:20
Is there any animal internal monologue in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Jan 9 at 14:35
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 10:00
What does Mr Darcy refer to when objecting to Mr Bennet's “want of propriety”?
Awarded Dec 18 '19 at 3:00
What was supposedly satanic about the Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Dec 13 '19 at 10:25
Why is Sergeant Shadwell obsessed with nipples?
Awarded Dec 9 '19 at 11:45
How did Mama and Papa bear know someone was sitting in their chairs?
Awarded Dec 5 '19 at 1:35
Why did attitudes change towards tragedy?
Awarded Oct 26 '19 at 22:15
What is the relationship between Heart of Darkness and The Hollow Men?
Awarded Oct 17 '19 at 15:35
What is the process to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize?
Awarded Oct 4 '19 at 5:00
Meaning/translation of title “The Light Fantastic” by Terry Pratchett
Awarded Sep 29 '19 at 23:10
What is the source of “You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love” (Shakespeare?)
Awarded Sep 16 '19 at 10:05
Did Charles Dickens change the endings of any of his books other than Great Expectations?
Awarded Sep 16 '19 at 4:25
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?
Awarded Sep 6 '19 at 22:05
What is so satanic about Manchester?
Awarded Sep 4 '19 at 16:00
Short story about Gentlemen being told a tale by a young woman
Awarded Sep 2 '19 at 13:25
Why do the March sisters call their mother Marmee?
Awarded Aug 29 '19 at 15:35
What is the origin of the trope of an evil character whose name is not permitted to be spoken?
Awarded Aug 29 '19 at 13:55
What did O'Brien mean when he said this at the end of 1984?
Awarded Aug 17 '19 at 10:00
Where is Kafka's “The Trial” set?
Awarded Jul 29 '19 at 2:25
Do the *books* show that Hogwarts is in Scotland?
Awarded Jul 11 '19 at 5:35
Did William Shakespeare hide things in his writings?
Awarded Jul 5 '19 at 12:15
How could Frankenstein get the parts for his second creature?
Awarded Jun 30 '19 at 7:35
Did Pushkin ever deliberately copy the style of anyone else?
Awarded Jun 25 '19 at 23:30
Is John Milton's Lucifer a tragic hero?
Awarded Jun 13 '19 at 1:40
Why didn't The Last Battle mention Susan's reaction to her family's death?
Awarded May 31 '19 at 19:25
Was CS Lewis referencing the uncanny valley?
Awarded May 15 '19 at 17:05
How and why did the story of King Cnut change?
Awarded May 14 '19 at 22:00
What is the significance of Sauron never having a physical presence in the Lord of the Rings?
Awarded May 11 '19 at 11:50
How does interrupting Kubla Khan save humanity?
Awarded Apr 10 '19 at 9:30
What happened at the end of The Giver?
Awarded Apr 2 '19 at 6:15
Would a reader of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea miss anything essential without knowing about Jane Eyre?
Awarded Apr 2 '19 at 5:55
“The Dearest Charms in France” - French story about soldiers, a lottery, and a famous prostitute
Awarded Mar 23 '19 at 17:40
How do people “kiss their teeth” in Nalo Hopkinson's novels?
Awarded Mar 9 '19 at 16:30
Can the Count of Monte Cristo's calculation of poison dosage be explained?
Awarded Mar 3 '19 at 22:40
What were the three clues mentioned at end of Agatha Christie's And There Were None?
Awarded Feb 27 '19 at 17:45
Meaning of “d-n” in “'T is strange—the Hebrew noun which means 'I am,' the English always used to govern d—n”
Awarded Feb 24 '19 at 17:50
Was Rowling inspired by the railway station scene in Prince Caspian?
Awarded Feb 21 '19 at 8:20
What does “Printed for…” mean?
Awarded Feb 20 '19 at 20:35
Looking for a historical fiction book set in England, possibly about the War of the Roses
Awarded Feb 18 '19 at 14:00
Who wrote the well-known Outline of Chapter Contents in the Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake?
Awarded Feb 8 '19 at 16:40
What's the joke with “Best of Queen” in Good Omens?
Awarded Feb 7 '19 at 14:45
What are the different names of Fenrir / Fenris Wolf?
Awarded Jan 30 '19 at 11:35
Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?
Awarded Jan 26 '19 at 22:05
Were all of Shakespeare's plays fully in iambic pentameter?
Awarded Jan 26 '19 at 21:55
Had Keats read any of Homer's works before reading Chapman's translation of them?
Awarded Jan 26 '19 at 21:50
Pride and Prejudice: Why did Elizabeth think “my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me”?
Awarded Jan 24 '19 at 2:00
Was Rand al'Thor supposed to be a symbol for Jesus?
Awarded Jan 22 '19 at 18:45
Meaning of this line in “On seeing the Elgin Marbles”
Awarded Jan 22 '19 at 16:30
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