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Censorship of African-American characters in "Tintin in America"
The first efforts to market Tintin to an American readership happened in the early 1960s, in the ill-fated "Golden Press debacle", when, among other things, the American publisher Golden ...
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Is this a typo in my copy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Yes, it is an obvious typo, be for he. The original has:
Cependant, tandis qu’il haranguait, la satisfaction, l’admiration unanimement excitées par son costume, se dissipaient à ses paroles;
il ...
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What words sung by Gloria Gaynor correspond to the line written in the lyrics of I Will Survive as "It took all the strength I had not to fall apart"?
Gloria Gaynor recorded two versions of ‘I Will Survive’. The original 1978 version has the lyric “It took all the strength I had not to fall apart” that is quoted on many lyrics sites. But in the ...
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Can I trust that Shakespeare's sonnets will always be published with the same numbering system?
Since the numbering that we have become familiar with stems from the first edition, printed in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe, this is also the numbering used in most modern editions. However, it has been ...
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What were the poems other than those by Donne in the Melford Hall manuscript?
The Melford Hall Manuscript was acquired by the British Library after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport placeed an export bar on the work in a bid to save the manuscript for the ...
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What is the textual source for the original ending of Austen's Persuasion?
The original ending was first published by Austen's nephew and biographer, J.Edward Austen-Leigh in his A Memoir of Jane Austen.
The manuscript is held in the British Library. Manuscript of chapters ...
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In which editions of Moby Dick is this a six inch chapter?
As kimchi lover pointed out in a comment:
In the first American edition ,chapter 23 is slightly less than a page long, spanning pp. 117-118. Since the book measures 20 cm, or slightly less than 8 ...
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What's the first appearance of the rhyme about "He died defending his right of way"?
The poem is ‘An Epitaph’ by Edgar A. Guest, first published in the Detroit Free Press on 1st October 1916 in Guest’s ‘Breakfast Table Chat’ column.
An Epitaph.
Here lies the body
Of William Jay,
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Maupassant, "j'ai en effet pour amie Mme Rosset", is this a typo?
Putting "j'ai en effet pour amie Mme Rosset" between commas usually means that you're emphasizing your statement, and placing "en effet" between the verb and the CoD (Complement d'...
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Why is the 1820 Indicator version of La Belle Dame Sans Merci seen as more "politically correct"?
Introduction: In defense of Fry
Gareth Rees's characterization, in his answer, of Fry's summary of McGann's argument as "misleading if not outright tendentious" seems to overstate the case. ...
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The text of Wordsworth's "To Toussaint L'Ouverture"
I found four versions of these lines published by Wordsworth in his lifetime. We can be reasonably confident that these are the poet’s own revisions.
Toussaint! the most unhappy Man of Men,
Whether ...
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Why did the book held by Rubashov change title between different versions of "Darkness at Noon"?
A change indicates that Koestler wanted to change the symbolism of the title.
Faust is, of course, a tale of a deal with the Devil, the loss of soul, and all the troubles entailed. This points toward ...
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Why was the text of "HaTikvah" changed?
I think the reason for the change is clear. The hope expressed in the original language is completely non-political. That hope is satisfied by return to the Jerusalem of the Ottoman Empire or the ...
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Does this edit in The Magician's Nephew (from "had her bathe" to "had her bath") fundamentally change the meaning of the sentence?
The word bathe in this context is presumably identical in meaning to the word bath. This can be demonstrated by looking at other instances in the series where the same term is used.
In Chapter Six of ...
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