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Questions about 'The Tale of Genji' (源氏物語, Genji monogatari), a novel written in the early 11th century by Murasaki Shikibu. Use this tag with the tags [murasaki-shikibu] and [japanese-literature].
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Questions related to Jane Austen's 1817 novel "Persuasion". Use this tag with the [jane-austen] tag.
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Questions about the works of Jules Verne (1850–1905) or his life as a writer. Use with the [french-literature] tag. He is famous for his fictional adventure/exploration works such as 'Journey to the C…
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Questions related to Elif Şafak's novel The Forty Rules of Love. Use this tag with the [elif-shafak] tag.
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Questions about the life and works of A.A. Milne (1882 – 1956), an English author famous for his work 'Winnie the Pooh'.
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Questions about the life and work of Ferdowsi (born 935 or 940, died between 1019 to 1026), a Persian poet famous for his epic poem 'Shanahmeh'. Questions about his works should be tagged with [persia…
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Questions related to William Blake's 1789 collection of poems Songs of Innocence, which was later expanded and published as Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794). Use this tag with the [william-…
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Questions related to the area of studies known as library and information science or LIS.
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For questions about Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Use in conjunction with [agatha-christie].
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Questions about the 20th-century English writer Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993) or about any of his literary works, most famously "A Clockwork Orange".
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For questions about Gulliver's Travels, the satirical novel by Jonathon Swift. Use this tag with the [Jonathan-Swift] tag.
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Questions regarding fictional languages within a book, such as Elvish from The Lord of the Rings.
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Questions related to the Elizabethan novel "Jack of Newbury" (1597) by Thomas Deloney. Use this tag with the tag [thomas-deloney].
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Questions about manga (漫画), a type of comics in a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. Manga are typically, though not always, printed in black-and-white. Manga-influenced comics also ex…
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Questions about the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864) and his life as a writer.
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For questions about Ray Bradbury's dystopian, science-fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451. Use in conjunction with [ray-bradbury].
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Questions about the works of Dan Brown (born 1964) or his life as a writer. He is famous for his works such as 'Angels & Demons', 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Inferno'.
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Questions about the works of William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) or his life as a writer.
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For questions about anything that was originally written in the language of Anglo-Saxon (Old English).
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for questions about possible and confirmed plagiarism in works of literature.
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Questions related to the 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Use this tag with the [oscar-wilde] tag.
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For questions specifically related to the hobby of collecting books, e.g. how to ensure the physical quality and durability of a book.
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Questions about adaptations of works of literature to a different medium or a different literary genre, or adaptations of works in other media (e.g. film) as works of literature.
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Questions about the works of P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) or his life as a writer.
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For questions about the French author Marcel Proust (1871–1922) or about any of his literary works, most famously the long novel "À la recherche du temps perdu", translated as "In Search of Lost Thing…
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Questions related to the representation of reality, especially with regard to human experience, in literature. This includes but is not limited to the realist movement that began in France in the 1850…
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Treasure Island is a novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Please use this with the [Robert-Louis-Stevenson] tag.
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Questions about the works or respective lives of the theatrical partnership Gilbert and Sullivan, which consists of composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) and librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911).
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Questions about the works of the American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997) and his life as a writer.
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For questions regarding the "Wheel of Time" book series, mostly written by Robert Jordan and finished by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death. It consists of 14 books and a prequel, along with extra…
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Questions about the epic poem "Os Lusíadas"/"The Lusiads" (1572), considered Portuguese's national epic, written by Luís Vaz de Camões. The poem celebrates Vasco da Gama's discovery of a sea route to …
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Questions about the Portuguese poet Luís Vaz de Camões (1524 or 1525–1580), or his life as a writer. He is considered the greatest Portuguese-language poet, and his best-known work, "Os Lusíadas" ("Th…
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