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63 Questions

Is Sherlock Holmes religious?

To what effect does Goldman claim The Princess Bride is an abridgement?

How did Lee's personal experience affect the narrative of To Kill A Mockingbird?

How did T.S. Eliot's literary criticism affect his poetry?

Should Go Set A Watchman be read before To Kill A Mockingbird?

Should Go Set a Watchman be read as a prequel, or an early draft?

What is “This is Just to Say” about?

Who is the speaker in “O Captain! My Captain!”

Why is “pensión” left untranslated in “The Shadow of the Wind”?

What is meant by the reference to theology in The Death of The Author?

What does the “good night” symbolize in Dylan Thomas's “Do not go gentle into that good night”?

What makes something a literary or poetic movement?

Had people related the work of Gogol before “The Nose”?

Do traditional Japanese haikus always describe a moment?

What does the “crimson hexagon” represent in “The Library of Babel”?

What does the rose represent in “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner?

What effect does an epistolary format have on our understanding of the book as a reader?

In “Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote” is Menard an analogy for a critical lens?

Is the Man-Mountain Agreement a satire of a specific event?

In what order should Rick Riordan's mythological series be read to make the most sense, and what is the chronological order?

Why are some people dissatisfied with the titling of “The Red Wheelbarrow”?

Is Strattenburg, Pennsylvania based on a real town?

Is Julián Carax based on a real author?

Did Thomas Wolfe keep a diary?

Did Alfred Tennyson ever read The Last of the Light Brigade?

What does Jorge Luis Borges mean by the library being infinite in “The Library of Babel”?

What is the significance/symbolism of the hexagon in “The Library of Babel”?

In “The Library of Babel” is the “cyclical book” really God?

Are hexagons directly connected to each other?

What do the “mirror” and the “lake” represent in “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath?