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What is the significance of the magicians in the poem 'In The Bazaars Of Hyderabad'?
Awarded Jul 18 '20 at 11:20
Why do many Korean folk tales start with “back when tigers smoked”?
Awarded Jul 16 '20 at 15:55
What does Dostoyevsky mean by 'propaganda' in Crime and Punishment?
Awarded Jul 11 '20 at 17:27
Story About a Boy Lost in the Wilderness
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Awarded Jul 9 '20 at 12:36
What is the meaning/significance of Aragorn putting a green stone into Bilbo's song?
Awarded Jul 4 '20 at 16:56
Popular informal physics book containing a quote from Lewis Carroll
Awarded Jul 3 '20 at 11:48
What kind of name is Vardaman?
Awarded Jul 2 '20 at 17:13
Analyzing the alliteration of the first line of Lolita
Awarded Jun 27 '20 at 20:51
What does this passage from a novel mean
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How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without discussing how to deal with Smaug?
Awarded Jun 24 '20 at 14:43
What political leanings are being described for Monsieur Carre-Lamadon?
Awarded Jun 24 '20 at 7:57
Quote about renouncing power over another and hoping they will do the same back
Awarded Jun 23 '20 at 15:57
How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without discussing how to deal with Smaug?
Awarded Jun 23 '20 at 15:18
Identification of an American comics strip about mathematically shaped pancakes
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Meaning of “the plaster stripping off the walls”
Awarded Jun 19 '20 at 22:27
If I find a book by Nietzsche, how do I know if it's Friedrich's original work, and not work that was edited by his nazi sister, Elisabeth?
Awarded Jun 19 '20 at 20:11
Are any works of literature known to implement all of Polti's Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations?
Awarded Jun 19 '20 at 16:20
Meaning of “Upon one other interest I have not yet touched—to me the weightiest and farthest—reaching of all”
Awarded Jun 18 '20 at 14:04
Meaning of “held between the fingers by a piece of thread passed through one corner”
Awarded Jun 17 '20 at 19:51
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History of Spoilers
Awarded Jun 16 '20 at 16:21
Trying to find novel about a woman who goes into deep introspection while stranded away from home
Awarded Jun 14 '20 at 19:25
Origin of the quote “Sadness is caused by intelligence”?
Awarded Jun 13 '20 at 10:25
Short story about humans that portrays them as savages
Awarded Jun 11 '20 at 18:27
Her sympathy was ours
Awarded Jun 11 '20 at 9:47
What is the Myth of Fingerprints?
Awarded Jun 10 '20 at 14:20
Dostoevsky's attitude towards Sonya Marmeladova
Awarded Jun 9 '20 at 20:28
In what story of Régnier does a man commit suicide without understanding the reason?
Awarded Jun 9 '20 at 7:01
Relationship between title and protagonist's fate in Tolstoy's God Sees the Truth, but Waits
Awarded Jun 7 '20 at 3:06
How had Mr. Fay's coat left him while his hands were bound tightly in Arthur Conan Doyle's “The History of Spiritualism”?
Awarded Jun 6 '20 at 11:18
Meaning of “What important truth…?” in “Zero to One”
Awarded Jun 5 '20 at 4:16
Literary allusions in Catch 22
Awarded Jun 3 '20 at 9:56
At what point did Leontes become jealous?
Awarded Jun 3 '20 at 8:06
What did O'Brien mean when he said “They got me a long time ago” in the book 1984?
Awarded May 31 '20 at 12:55
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Awarded May 27 '20 at 15:46
What are “abortive sorrows” and “short-winded elations” in “The Great Gatsby”?
Awarded May 27 '20 at 1:42
Trying to find a story of a man who strapped a magnet to his forehead, has visions
Awarded May 26 '20 at 18:50
In Peter and the Wolf, why is Peter represented by a String quartet?
Awarded May 26 '20 at 13:51
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Awarded May 25 '20 at 10:46
In “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, do opposites attract?
Awarded May 23 '20 at 17:26
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Awarded May 22 '20 at 19:18
What is the difference between souteneur and proxénète in Maupassant's Bel-Ami?
Awarded May 18 '20 at 20:16
Which edition of How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Doren is the best?
Awarded May 18 '20 at 19:17
In the novel “Goat Days” what was Najeeb Muhammad's letter to his wife?
Awarded May 18 '20 at 18:31
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Awarded May 17 '20 at 22:03
How did Shakespeare get away with staging witchcraft in his plays such as Othello, Macbeth, or The Tempest?
Awarded May 13 '20 at 2:56
Agatha Christie: some questions about The Hollow
Awarded May 10 '20 at 20:12
What is the earliest known concept of a fictional advanced appliance for either cooking or eating?
Awarded May 9 '20 at 6:20
Does “the” only serve to preserve metre in “The Tyger”?
Awarded May 8 '20 at 3:49
What is the difference between Zeffirelli movie and Shakespeare's play in Mercutio and Tybalt fight
Awarded May 7 '20 at 19:43
Meaning of “spelt backwards” in “The Oracle of the Dog”
Awarded May 5 '20 at 9:48
Meaning of “vision of the world’s desire” in “The Oracle of the Dog”
Awarded May 4 '20 at 20:52
What does the last line of Daniel Borzutzky's “Managed Diversity” mean?
Awarded May 2 '20 at 1:20
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