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30
Why don't Mr. Bennet's daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate?
Jan 14 at 10:47
30
What is the pun in Kipling's poem “The Three-Decker”?
Feb 20 '18 at 14:11
17
Where was the Odyssean Ithaca?
Mar 10 '18 at 10:23
14
How did contemporary readers respond to coincidence in 19th century novels
Feb 26 '18 at 13:59
13
What did Alexander Pope mean by “Expletives their feeble Aid do join”?
Mar 15 at 21:03
13
What does violence have to do with a 'bodice ripper' romance novel?
Apr 13 '18 at 17:38
11
Why did Mr. Elliot have to decide whose boots were thickest in “Persuasion”?
Feb 25 at 11:14
10
How could Frankenstein get the parts for his second creature?
Mar 26 at 13:32
10
Why does the Iliad start “in the middle”?
Aug 12 '18 at 16:56
10
What is steampunk?
Apr 20 '18 at 12:29
10
Was Thomas Hardy expressing his own religious intolerance or commenting on the general anti-Semitic sentiment of the time?
Feb 5 '18 at 16:27
9
What is the significance of Sauron never having a physical presence in the Lord of the Rings?
May 10 at 10:32
9
What was the exact wording from Ivanhoe of this advice on how to free yourself from slavery?
Mar 23 at 18:35
8
Was T. S. Eliot's “The Waste Land” plagiarised?
Apr 5 at 18:17
8
Where and how did James Joyce condemn Hamlet as a failure?
Apr 11 at 8:45
8
Does D'Hubert rape the maid at the beginning of Joseph Conrad's 'The Duel'?
Apr 10 '18 at 12:58
8
How did one become a Wizard in A Wizard of Earthsea?
May 30 '18 at 20:16
8
Why does Shelby Foote use the phrase “airline miles” in The Civil War: a Narrative?
Apr 6 '18 at 17:44
8
How did Theseus woo Hippolyta by doing her injuries?
Apr 2 '18 at 12:42
8
Terminology and examples for what George Orwell calls “good bad poetry”?
Feb 22 '18 at 19:29
7
How does the editor know that seven lines are missing from Wordsworth's Home at Grasmere?
Sep 27 '18 at 14:39
7
How does anacrusis simulate a ship's pushing back from dock?
Apr 15 '18 at 10:28
7
Who said this quote? Napoleon Bonaparte or Theodore Roosevelt?
Aug 3 '18 at 14:39
7
What does this passage about the atmosphere blowing in Cyprus and the Galilee mean in “Jude the Obscure” mean?
Apr 2 '18 at 13:54
7
Did Shakespeare err in using Ephesus as a port setting?
Apr 2 '18 at 9:36
6
Is this sentence in The Count of Monte Cristo supposed to refer to Fernand or to Albert?
14 hours ago
6
How can “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” be read as a commentary on Scotland?
May 6 at 21:43
6
The origin of Tolkien's use of the term “hobbit”
Apr 22 at 12:40
6
Can the apparent age discrepancies in The Count of Monte Cristo be reconciled?
Mar 10 at 0:29
6
“The British are the nation of amateurs” — is it really G. B. Shaw's quote?
Feb 28 at 19:36
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