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Meaning of "with no why to how it keeps its mystery"
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Who was the alpha and who was the beta in Anna Karenina? [closed]
Awarded Nov 29 at 9:19
Short story by Poe where the killers of an evil king escape by ladder
Awarded Nov 25 at 18:15
What does "in Twos and Threes" mean in this Robert Bly poem?
Awarded Nov 25 at 1:16
Story about two brothers playing *gulli-danda*
Awarded Nov 23 at 9:17
How did Ursula Le Guin translate the Tao Te Ching / Dao De Jing?
Awarded Nov 19 at 1:06
Meaning of B.A., S.A.. B.O. in "Love in a Cold Climate"
Awarded Nov 18 at 17:57
Cappello, Cepparello, Ciapperello, Ciappelletto - what's it all about?
Awarded Nov 14 at 14:16
Where in the Republic does an Athenian businessman castigate "Socrates for his pursuit of abstract knowledge"?
Awarded Nov 10 at 18:22
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Awarded Nov 10 at 4:37
Why does "less than" mean "not" in "A little more than kin, and less than kind"?
Awarded Nov 9 at 1:17
Why does Aphrodite speak like this while disguised as the old woman?
Awarded Nov 5 at 5:30
50/60s short story where a shipwrecked man hallucinates that his crush comes to him, he kills her; later she reads his confession in the newspaper
Awarded Nov 3 at 19:35
Was Jorge Amado familiar with the work of Anna Seghers?
Awarded Nov 3 at 5:46
What did Melville mean by the "Pythagorean Maxim" in "Moby Dick"?
Awarded Oct 30 at 21:55
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Awarded Oct 29 at 16:56
Meaning of "take trains like the Twentieth Century"
Awarded Oct 28 at 9:27
Literary or rhetorical term meaning "past for the future"?
Awarded Oct 25 at 7:08
Is Snoopy a telepath?
Awarded Oct 25 at 2:17
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Awarded Oct 24 at 5:16
Rhyme scheme in two of William Blake's poems
Awarded Oct 22 at 15:10
Is there a name for the narrative technique of starting at the end and then going back to the beginning? (As in Lord Jim)
Awarded Oct 21 at 15:57
What does Browning's patriot mean by "Paid by the world, what dost thou owe"?
Awarded Oct 16 at 9:20
If a first-person narrator addresses the reader, is it considered speech or thought?
Awarded Oct 15 at 10:56
Why does this Tintin album not have a printing number?
Awarded Oct 12 at 14:33
Are these actually first editions?
Awarded Oct 11 at 22:17
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Awarded Oct 11 at 13:37
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Awarded Oct 10 at 11:20
What's the evidence for "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" being secretly set in Edinburgh?
Awarded Oct 9 at 19:25
Why haven't more of Bernard Werber's works been translated?
Awarded Oct 8 at 14:08
French comic about a Native American prisoner
Awarded Oct 3 at 17:55
Why can't Harry Potter see the threstrals in the books before the fifth?
Awarded Oct 2 at 14:40
What is the difference between the narration of the Fall of Troy in The Aeneid, The Iliad, and The Odyssey?
Awarded Oct 2 at 10:27
What does "This title has Common Core connections" mean?
Awarded Sep 29 at 17:28
What does "Some people do the same by their religion" mean?
Awarded Sep 27 at 12:55
Social class in medieval Italian literature and its changes during the Renaissance
Awarded Sep 26 at 9:35
How to understand “a dumb or a talking brute” in The Ransom of Red Chief?
Awarded Sep 23 at 23:51
What is the opposite of deus ex machina?
Awarded Sep 21 at 20:56
What does "keep up to the mark" mean in this letter from Darwin to Hooker?
Awarded Sep 21 at 15:55
What is the opposite of deus ex machina?
Awarded Sep 20 at 21:09
What is the earliest reference in fiction to a government-approved thieves guild?
Awarded Sep 19 at 13:10
What is a Daniel?
Awarded Sep 15 at 6:35
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Awarded Sep 14 at 8:52
Was Holden Caulfield molested as a child?
Awarded Sep 5 at 19:17
Brideshead Revisited: Prince Rupert’s Horse
Awarded Sep 4 at 10:26
"Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda – questions
Awarded Aug 24 at 10:10
Was Selma Lagerlöf a Nazi supporter?
Awarded Aug 22 at 12:17
What did Hemingway mean by "the setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish"?
Awarded Aug 22 at 11:46
Where did the term Kwisatz Haderach in Dune originate?
Awarded Aug 19 at 22:50
Meaning of 'Yawl write, hear?'
Awarded Aug 19 at 15:34
Looking for the name of a book with Bruegel's Tower of Babel as the front cover
Awarded Aug 19 at 14:32
Young adult 80s novel about second coming of Christ as a horny teenage boy
Awarded Aug 13 at 23:04
Short animal stories book identification
Awarded Aug 10 at 8:12
"Anne of Avonlea": why was painting the building blue considered inappropriate?
Awarded Aug 7 at 19:42
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Awarded Aug 5 at 13:47
Did Orwell's wife write anything down after her period spent in Spain during the Spanish Civil War?
Awarded Aug 5 at 7:33
Options for when a text has not been translated into English from Spanish
Awarded Jul 29 at 0:35
What was the first work of fiction about flying machines?
Awarded Jul 28 at 18:40
Romeo and Juliet: Why is honey loathsome in its deliciousness?
Awarded Jul 28 at 2:36
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