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Book about smart girl who’s mother drowned in the ocean
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What is this "flashforward" technique called?
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What does "The Shampoo" written by Elizabeth Bishop tell?
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Catharsis in Medea
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Meaning of “All spirits are enslaved that serve things evil” in "Prometheus Unbound"
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What does Tennyson mean by "by the bird's song ye may learn the nest"?
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Can plot development analysis (climax, denouement, etc.) apply to smaller segments throughout a work?
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Meaning of "My owners'll have to rank with the rest on their charter-party"?
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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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Does the phrase "Jack of all trades, often times better than a master of one" come from Shakespeare?
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Source and phrasing of quote on knowledge and toil
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What is the "slow wheel" in Frost's "Into My Own"?
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What do ‘redda', 'the taste of babat', 'Kottu Aiya', and ‘Kunu kaaraya’ mean? (From "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida")
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In what novel does the surname Deifik appear?
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What does "nature" mean in "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"?
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What is the significance of Nick being gay in The Great Gatsby?
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Dark story about two brothers surviving in the woods; they both die
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Why all those tangents in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables?
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YA novel set in London featuring a teenage Sherlock wannabe
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What is an inciting incident?
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"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings" — where does this Dostoyevsky quote come from?
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Where else did Rilke mention John on Patmos?
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Is the name Crowley in Good Omens a reference to the famous occultist?
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What is the relation (if any) of Fanny Buitrago to her biographer Letty Buitrago?
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What are "devices of orthodoxy" in this context?
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In Agatha Christie's, 'One, Two, Buckle My Shoe', how did the killer know Mr. Amberiotis was going to the dentist at that time?
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Rumi's "In a slaughterhouse of love..." meaning
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Is "Uncle Tom's Cabin" read in American high schools?
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What point is the end of The Owl Service trying to make?
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What is the background of the epigram "I'm not a nitpicker nor a nitpicker's son, but I'll pick your nits 'til the nitpicker comes"?
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What is the most recent epistolary novel written in English that consists entirely out of back and forth letters between two characters?
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The distinction between the Orwell's belief about real world and his imagination
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Did Poirot fabricate a fingerprint in "The ABC Murders"?
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Why doesn't Shams give Kimya any closure?
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Dinosaur story for children
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Use of archaic language in certain passages in Evelina
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Help finding a children's book about a pet dragon who eats baked beans from a skip
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In Lolita, is there any evidence that Humbert committed a second murder?
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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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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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Children's book: "Augmenter" is a key concept
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Meaning of "work me more annoy" in Byron's "The Bride of Abydos"
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"I saw the thunder and heard the lightning, and felt the burden of his shame"
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Book which mixes a story about a young girl at birthdays and helpful ideas for planning birthdays
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Specificity in ancient depictions of Olympus?
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What does Norman Maclean mean: "Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it."?
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What is the literary effect of dropping articles from titles?
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In Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd,” what is the significance of Bathsheba’s equestrian skills at the beginning of the novel?
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Story about a community of rats that create art and another that only works and eventually all rats give up on art?
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Book featuring an airplane sheet-plated with gold and an expedition to Africa to get it?
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Seeking circular novel, begins & ends with man waking from a dream
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In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, what indicators are there that the novel is a metaphor for environmental destruction?
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Why isn't Arthur Conan Doyle considered a first-rate writer? [closed]
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Meaning/significance of "All the King's horses" in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme?
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