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Story about boy riding with a caravan and inventing a story which turns out to be true
Awarded Feb 2 at 9:26
Oribasii Collectiones Medicae in Greek/English
Awarded Feb 1 at 20:47
Is there a Latin saying equivalent to a line in Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick"?
Awarded Feb 1 at 19:00
A fable in which pigs with human heads are born because the swineherds had no women with them
Awarded Jan 31 at 11:02
Book with a series of parallel Earths and a version of the main characters replaces him
Awarded Jan 26 at 17:32
Did Gaiman and Pratchett troll an interviewer who thought they were religious fanatics?
Awarded Jan 25 at 13:02
Identify a Faust quote about being careful when calling upon bad spirits
Awarded Jan 25 at 0:17
Is William Dunseath Eaton's play Iskander still extant?
Awarded Jan 23 at 13:05
Which does this part refer to, a pencil or the words?
Awarded Jan 20 at 13:12
Sonnet 39 of Astrophil and Stella: Are these epithets or metaphors?
Awarded Jan 19 at 16:42
German book where a hiring manager hires his former bully
Awarded Jan 18 at 23:32
What is the origin of the plot device where a character changes negative views about someone after spending time with them?
Awarded Jan 17 at 16:55
What does "soul" mean in "My Face for the World to See"?
Awarded Jan 9 at 18:36
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Awarded Jan 9 at 9:45
How much time did one canto in Dante's Divine Comedy represent (if any)?
Awarded Jan 5 at 19:32
How did Snape figure out the stuff he had written in his Advanced Potion-Making book?
Awarded Jan 5 at 13:06
What is the relationship between the hypotext and the intertext?
Awarded Jan 4 at 19:40
Short story in orient-style city, man abusing the children who teaches him to play an instrument, covered by his wife
Awarded Jan 3 at 22:07
Children's book in which there seems to be another person on the opposite side of their mirror
Awarded Jan 3 at 7:27
Quote source - "if memories could bleed, if dreams could scream"
Awarded Jan 3 at 3:57
How can I determine if a book should be read superficially?
Awarded Dec 29 '20 at 18:26
Did "equator" have a different meaning from its common one in 19th-century English literature?
Awarded Dec 28 '20 at 15:32
In what order should Rick Riordan's mythological series be read to make the most sense, and what is the chronological order?
Awarded Dec 28 '20 at 0:08
Is there any example of a hero saluting his fallen adversary and regretting the need to vanquish him? [closed]
Awarded Dec 27 '20 at 4:16
Is the stormy weather an element of Naturalism in The Shining by Stephen King?
Awarded Dec 26 '20 at 19:32
Young-readers book of short-stories from 1960s or 70s - "Teenaged Millionaire"?
Awarded Dec 23 '20 at 18:15
What short story has a soldier deliver a secret message like “shoot the messenger”?
Awarded Dec 23 '20 at 3:48
Is there any evidence for a gay relationship in The Merchant of Venice?
Awarded Dec 22 '20 at 22:56
Help identify the story "I did not sell my child"; ends with the grown up child deserting parents
Awarded Dec 22 '20 at 13:31
Looking for a Christmas/Saint Nicholas book
Awarded Dec 21 '20 at 21:36
Horatio Hornblower book as part of anthology?
Awarded Dec 21 '20 at 20:52
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Awarded Dec 18 '20 at 15:05
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Awarded Dec 18 '20 at 4:07
What does "real food" mean in this context?
Awarded Dec 17 '20 at 9:12
Does "rounded streets" mean curved streets in this passage?
Awarded Dec 17 '20 at 6:25
Was Afghanistan considered tropical or was Holmes wrong?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 10:17
Why did John le Carré choose that particular (French) pseudonym?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 7:06
What are the poetic devices used in this poem and how do they relate to its meaning?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 5:21
Why does Elaine Showalter compare Jane Eyre's being locked in a room to menarchal ceremonies?
Awarded Dec 13 '20 at 15:20
Mystifying reference in "Anna Karenina"
Awarded Dec 10 '20 at 0:04
What does the Whether Man teach Milo in "The Phantom Tollbooth"?
Awarded Dec 8 '20 at 9:50
Exploring heteroglossia in the semiotic novels of Umberto Eco
Awarded Dec 8 '20 at 7:57
What's meant by "the illusion of the chapel ended" in The Just Men of Cordova?
Awarded Nov 29 '20 at 13:51
"Walking to Work" by Frank O'Hara
Awarded Nov 27 '20 at 18:27
What does "tickets, visas, lingua franca will all become irrelevant" mean in a context?
Awarded Nov 27 '20 at 3:28
Why did Halle have butter all over his face
Awarded Nov 25 '20 at 2:26
Is there a complete anthology of the Fenian Cycle?
Awarded Nov 24 '20 at 17:56
Is the opening quote in Michael Crichton’s “Airframe” real or fictional?
Awarded Nov 19 '20 at 19:40
Why do the Pern novels use regular words as profanity?
Awarded Nov 9 '20 at 18:25
In which poem(s) in Day by Day does Robert Lowell describe erectile dysfunction?
Awarded Nov 7 '20 at 21:47
How does Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird represent the notion of self-conflict?
Awarded Nov 7 '20 at 20:58
What does it mean to laugh like the letter k?
Awarded Nov 5 '20 at 19:27
Does the Birling family (and Gerald) represent the 7 deadly sins and/or the story of the pharaoh?
Awarded Nov 2 '20 at 20:57
Is there a "moral-index" of fables?
Awarded Nov 2 '20 at 15:26
Interpretation of a Camus Quote
Awarded Nov 2 '20 at 13:48
Gore Vidal’s book about the Mexican-American war: was anything published?
Awarded Oct 31 '20 at 23:02
Looking for the name of a children's book about hobbit-like people
Awarded Oct 30 '20 at 21:27
What happened with the Fem-Ents?
Awarded Oct 29 '20 at 2:41
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Awarded Oct 27 '20 at 11:41
What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of "burglar"?
Awarded Oct 26 '20 at 14:27
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