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How much of the original verse is lost in Fitzgerald's translation of The Aeneid?
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In "Candide", are Prussian officers recruiting for the Bulgarian army?
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Significance of "further up and further in"?
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What does this gesture mean?
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What "might not be a blackbird at all" in Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"?
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Was Macbeth considering murdering Duncan before Lady Macbeth encouraged him to?
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What does "I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do" mean?
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What is "the light by which she had read the book" in "Anna Karenina"?
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Why does Macbeth well deserve his name?
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Why did the Macrobes demand another head at the end of That Hideous Strength?
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How is 11:22 four minutes slow if it's actually 11:29?
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Why is there so little character to the character of Shadow in American Gods?
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Greek myth about an athlete who kills another man with a discus
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What is meant by "I was blue ribbon" and "I broke my blue ribbon"?
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Meaning of "Elizabeth Childers" by Edgar Lee Masters?
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Why doesn't Shams give Kimya any closure?
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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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Short story where spectators at a sports match shine a mirror at the referee and burn him
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How does the old norse kenning 'nausta blakks hlé-mána gífrs drífu gim-slöngvir' break down into 'warrior'
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Who is the "Sir Oracle" being referenced in "Dracula"?
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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 "Romeo and Juliet", why is Juliet the "sun"?
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What does "crammle aboon the grees" mean?
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Who is the "we" in the fifth stanza of Longfellow's "Haunted Houses"? The ghosts or the living humans?
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What's the significance of the baker not letting her feel the bread in Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"?
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Parody of Lewis Carroll's parody, "You are old, Father William"
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Who or what is Cassiopeia?
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Why is the title of "Le Morte d'Arthur" in French if the book is in English?
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Why did Urquhart choose "neck of a goose" in his English translation of Gargantua?
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The meaning of the poem "Crucified" by Kahlil Gibran
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Why does Heep refer to Copperfield sometimes as mister and sometimes as master?
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What does "She human or the other thing" mean?
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What do ‘redda', 'the taste of babat', 'Kottu Aiya', and ‘Kunu kaaraya’ mean? (From "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida")
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What does "pre-Miracle" mean in this extract from the book "The fault in our stars"?
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Who wrote this poem?
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What is the origin of the name "Frankenstein"?
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Is this part of Mark Antony's speech to the conspirators in the play "Julius Caesar" meant to be honest?
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What is the theology of Little Women?
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What does "The telephone had never been a bother to her. It gave her no sense of urgency." mean?
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What role does Holden's hunting hat play in the narrative of "The Catcher in the Rye"?
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What is specifically Dutch about light bulbs?
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Is it an error to identify the narrator of "Ozymandias" with the author?
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How does the trans community view Gore Vidal's 'Myra Breckinridge'?
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Roald Dahl short story - wife kills drunkard husband by spiking his drink
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What happened to the epic poem?
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What is it time for in Paul Celan's "Corona"?
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Louise Glück's "Vespers"
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Story in which a boy's mother dies, he forgets about it when at school but remembers when he arrives home?
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Comparing the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Award, and the Booker Prize
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Why does Great Illustrated Classics change details in its abridged versions?
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Meaning of "pig who sees the wind" in Byron's Don Juan
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Why was Pygmalion retitled to My Fair Lady?
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In the end, was no one loyal to Macbeth and willing to fight for him, and why?
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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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Was Simon's hideout later used by Ralph?
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Did Virginia Woolf read The Yellow Wallpaper before publishing Mrs. Dalloway?
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Trying to find a story of a man who strapped a magnet to his forehead, has visions
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Why did Dunbar consider a life of intentional boredom worth living?
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What is the source of this David Foster Wallace quote? Can't tell if it's actually him or not
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