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"A set of Guatemalas" in Forster's Maurice?
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What does "crammle aboon the grees" mean?
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What does "Catholic privilege" mean in Pym's Excellent Women?
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Short story about chess
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What does "I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do" mean?
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Why does Macbeth well deserve his name?
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What is the deeper meaning of Blake's "The Lily"?
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Predecessors/Inspirations of Scheinriesen (Illusionary Giants)
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How did they track Llewelyn Moss in "No Country for Old Men"?
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How is 11:22 four minutes slow if it's actually 11:29?
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In Homer's Odyssey, how can the one-eyed Cyclops have multiple brows?
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Meaning of the slash ("/") in dialog in Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung"
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What are the other (aside from the Iliad) classical sources for the saga of Troy?
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Have there been any scholarly attempts and/or consensus as regards the missing lines of "The Ruin"?
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Seeing the world through green-tinted glasses
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Does Aldonza Lorenzo appear as a real character in Don Quixote?
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Is The Lord of the Flies set on a real island?
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Is there a name for books in which the narrator isn't the protagonist but someone who know them well?
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In "Bullet the Blue Sky", what is the symbolism of Jacob and the angel?
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English translation of a quatrain from the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam
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Why did Everworld end so abruptly?
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Is there a canonical order to HP Lovecraft's work?
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Trying to find a comic strip about "What your clothes say about you"
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Short story where an older lady realizes that her new beau has been murdering his wives, but decides to go with it
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Why did Shams refuse to sleep with Kimya?
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What is specifically Dutch about light bulbs?
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German mystery novel(s) where stereotypically-German "Johann" works for an intelligence agency with two assistants
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Why doesn't Hamlet like improvisation?
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Vonnegut's writing style as time passed
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What does "And others, whose breasts love the feel of scapulars," mean in Baudelaire's "Damned Women"?
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Can I read David Mitchell's books in any order?
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Was Mrs Croft really an invalid?
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Did C. S. Lewis ever intend to write about any of the other universes in The Magician's Nephew?
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Does Puzzle the Donkey have an allegorical relationship with any entity in the Book of Revelation or the Bible at large?
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Is Barrett Emerson, portrayed in the TV series "Will", a real Christopher Marlowe patron?
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A book about a man finding three people more stupid than his fiancée
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Why was the text of "HaTikvah" changed?
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Is the character of Randolph Henry Ash based on any particular Victorian poet?
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How is the concept of cultural encounter treated in the short story “One Out of Many”?
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Was Shakespeare inspired by Olaus Magnus when writing Macbeth?
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Book about a boy blinded by a firecracker
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The woods as a symbol in Young Goodman Brown
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What is "the sin that no Christian need pardon"?
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Did Napoleon ever shoot a bookseller?
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What section of literary theory does "pure" analysis fall into?
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In what way is the poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker related to power / conflict?
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What is the source of this cheesy quote?
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When and why did the practice of reading "Address to a Haggis" at Burns Night dinner originate?
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Why does changing one's name to 'Vladimir' indicate allegiance to Moscow?
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How are the Chekov passages handled in the translation of 1Q84?
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Is there any evidence the Party was atheistic?
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Are there any debated authorship references in Thursday Next series?
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Who wrote The Urantia Book?
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Did Tolkien invent Bilbo saving the Dwarves but forgetting about himself?
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Short story where people are handicapped in the name of fairness and equality
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Why is Gatsby's house described as "ancestral"?
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What are "the feelings of an Emma towards her Henry"?
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How did Theseus woo Hippolyta by doing her injuries?
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What effect does an epistolary format have on our understanding of the book as a reader?
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Was Isidora's fate in Melmoth the Wanderer directly inspired by Faust?
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