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What does, "The period of exaggerated reaction consequent on all public wrongdoing..." mean?

In Longfellow's "Evangeline", during what part of the year is Evangeline exiled?

Robin Hood tale, belladonna and a modern frame story

What does "speed the plow" mean in David Mamet's play?

90s retelling of Twelfth Night set in Internet chatrooms

What's the title of the short story about wife accidentally eating all of her husband's food so she cooked "something" instead?

What is the textual source for the original ending of Austen's Persuasion?

Significance of the title of "Corn-Grinders" by Sarojini Naidu

What does the "who has not dined with these?" mean?

What does the anecdote about teeing off have to do with Allie's red hair in "The Catcher in the Rye"?

What is an Akhmatovian nose?

Why does Tom Sawyer forget what "ransom" means?

Who are these crescent saints?

What do ‘redda', 'the taste of babat', 'Kottu Aiya', and ‘Kunu kaaraya’ mean? (From "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida")

Why is the town called "Trinity"?

Did Charles Dickens change the endings of any of his books other than Great Expectations?

A question about sewing a collar in Tom Sawyer

From which book or essay are these words by Ralph Waldo Emerson? "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year..."

Why was 50 considered old in Premchand's day?

What does this paragraph mean in Dickens' American Notes?

Meaning of "visions of meadows" and "along which her disembodied consciousness progresses to a stately pulse."

In Great Expectations, who is the man at the pub in Chapter Ten?

What is the lion in Tiel Aisha Ansari's "Dervish Lion"?

What does "have you no cacke a bed" mean?

Who said that history is a lie/fable agreed upon?

What does "advertisements in mother-of-pearl letters upon the glass-covered back" mean here?

Who is the 'Immortal Hale' in William Cowper's The Task?

What are T. S. Eliot’s “Jellicle Cats” and “Pollicle Dogs”?

Was there a real person for Cardinal Vitori mentioned in This Side of Paradise of F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Meaning of "rubber" as a verb in O. Henry