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Questions asking for identification of a literary work (story, novel, poem, play, etc) or author, based on descriptive details provided within the question. Please be thorough and provide ALL of the details that you can remember when using this tag. (For questions seeking the original source of a known quote, use the [quote-source] tag instead.)
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Tolstoy's "A Letter to a Hindu" - Krishna Quote References?
From Wikipedia:
"A Letter to a Hindu" (also known as "A Letter to a Hindoo") was a
letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908...
The letter caused the young Mohandas Karamcha …
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Play involving a writer being questioned by the police after children start dying in a way m...
From Wikipedia:
The Pillowman is a 2003 play by British-Irish playwright Martin
McDonagh.
Katurian, a writer of short stories that often depict violence against
children, has been arrested by two det …
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Who wrote The Cleaners and what is the book about?
I believe Andra is correct, and it is Vladimir Bogomolov’s The Moment of Truth (In August of 1944).
The USSR had a legal deposit system. Several copies of every publication in the country were sent to …
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What volume/publication does this poem by Janko Jesenský belong to?
I found a Russian translation in a Soviet edition of his poetry («Избранная лирика», 1981). The poem is from his 1945 collection Na zlobu dňa (On the topic of the day). The text is supplied with the p …