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Of what judge does Thoreau speak in this passage from "A Plea for Captain John Brown"?

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Why specify Mr. Berry looked into the brass like Snow White's queen in Ellison's "The Black Ball"?

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Why does Pierre think a priest giving a deserter the cross to kiss is hypocrisy?

6 votes

If Tolkien disliked allegory, why are there so many allegorical readings of The Lord of the Rings?

5 votes

In which editions of Moby Dick is this a six inch chapter?

4 votes

What does "and who is poorer than he who is in love..." from "The Mental Hospital Garden" by William Carlos Williams mean?

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To what "attack on the Boston Court-House" does Thoreau allude in this paragraph from "Slavery in Massachusetts"?

4 votes

Who wrote this poem?

3 votes

In Frontier Wolf, what is the importance of the swordsmith's daughter?

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Is this Eeyore's irony?

3 votes

Meaning of "fix you up" in The Catcher in the Rye

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What did Thoreau mean in the "treason" passage from "A Plea for Captain John Brown"?

3 votes

Meaning of "Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new" in "Walden"

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What is meant by Thoreau in "A church that can never have done with excommunicating Christ while it exists!"?

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What prior "case of the murderer himself" does Thoreau have in mind in "Slavery in Massachusetts"?

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What did Adam Smith mean by "toil and trouble" in "The Wealth of Nations"?

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Of what people, of what liquor-agency does Thoreau speak in this paragraph from "The Last Days of John Brown"?

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