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Was The Forty Rules of Love originally written in Turkish or in English?
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Some questions about Agatha Christie's Peril at End House
Awarded Jul 15 at 16:11
What does "I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do" mean?
Awarded Jul 12 at 21:48
Why does Macbeth well deserve his name?
Awarded Jul 10 at 13:50
What exactly happened at the end of The Dumb Waiter?
Awarded Jul 9 at 11:47
How is 11:22 four minutes slow if it's actually 11:29?
Awarded Jul 8 at 18:42
Meaning of this line from "Birches"
Awarded Jul 6 at 8:33
How autobiographical are Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books?
Awarded Jul 5 at 16:54
Greek myth about an athlete who kills another man with a discus
Awarded Jul 5 at 7:39
What is meant by "I was blue ribbon" and "I broke my blue ribbon"?
Awarded Jul 4 at 9:50
Three Musketeers - the diamond studs
Awarded Jun 23 at 2:46
What were the inspirations for the Forsaken's names?
Awarded Jun 22 at 0:03
Is there a name for books in which the narrator isn't the protagonist but someone who know them well?
Awarded Jun 21 at 22:04
In "Romeo and Juliet", why is Juliet the "sun"?
Awarded Jun 20 at 20:08
Were Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bennet formally equal in rank?
Awarded Jun 18 at 19:15
Why might Robert Frost specify a ' long two-pointed ladder' in the poem 'After Apple Picking'?
Awarded Jun 18 at 5:18
Who was the poet who said something like "Now only God knows (what I meant to say in that poem)"
Awarded Jun 14 at 18:40
What literary device is used in from "one thing to another"?
Awarded Jun 13 at 16:26
Short story in which notorious safe-cracker retires but has to use old tools to save girl's life
Awarded Jun 9 at 18:27
Is calling Queequeg a "cannibal" meant to imply he literally consumed human flesh?
Awarded Jun 5 at 6:05
In the renowned book The Great Gatsby, how, where and why did Tom meet Daisy?
Awarded Jun 4 at 4:27
Why does the Phantom call both Christina and himself "Angel of Music?"
Awarded May 31 at 20:04
What is specifically Dutch about light bulbs?
Awarded May 28 at 19:17
Why are manga panels read differently than Japanese text?
Awarded May 28 at 11:56
Which original Persian poem of Rumi does this refer to?
Awarded May 19 at 22:11
"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings" — where does this Dostoyevsky quote come from?
Awarded May 15 at 5:41
In what literature does Rumi say "You are the Soul of the Soul of the Universe. And your name is Love?"
Awarded May 10 at 14:21
Did Napoleon ever shoot a bookseller?
Awarded May 9 at 22:04
What is "the sin that no Christian need pardon"?
Awarded May 9 at 12:40
Who is "the black gentleman"?
Awarded May 5 at 4:32
What is the significance of Nick being gay in The Great Gatsby?
Awarded May 4 at 20:47
Why does changing one's name to 'Vladimir' indicate allegiance to Moscow?
Awarded May 2 at 22:55
What are the Riddle Rules?
Awarded Apr 26 at 13:42
In Stephen King's The Shining, what is the meaning of Jack's conversation with Grady?
Awarded Apr 23 at 13:58
What effect did the knocking at the gate in "Macbeth" have on Thomas De Quincey?
Awarded Apr 18 at 1:40
Looking for a quote from 1984 about the party's immortality vs personal mortality
Awarded Apr 17 at 2:47
Origin of "The bells! The bells!" quote
Awarded Apr 16 at 18:11
What does this passage of 1984 mean?
Awarded Apr 16 at 15:51
How did Pilate order Judas' death in Master and Margarita?
Awarded Apr 14 at 18:37
What is the source of "You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love" (Shakespeare?)
Awarded Apr 13 at 11:57
How does soap undermine the church in "A Connecticut Yankee"?
Awarded Apr 13 at 3:52
Seeking story about chess in Soviet Union, probably Playboy c.1980?
Awarded Apr 10 at 13:21
Book of short stories I read as a kid; one story about a starving girl, one about a boy who stays forever young
Awarded Apr 4 at 12:10
Scene from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur fails to explain how Earth technology works
Awarded Apr 3 at 1:25
What does "Funnies" refer to?
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Why did Khaled Hosseini mention this quote in "A Thousand Splendid Suns"?
Awarded Mar 23 at 20:11
How was Marienbad My Love written?
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Difference between translations of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"?
Awarded Mar 20 at 23:55
Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"
Awarded Mar 20 at 2:15
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” Is this a genuine TS Eliot quote?
Awarded Mar 19 at 3:27
What's the point of the sandy beach in "A Dream Within a Dream"?
Awarded Mar 17 at 18:25
Since when did Merlin have an owl?
Awarded Mar 17 at 3:31
In Mansfield Park, why did Maria Bertram and Henry Crawford get together?
Awarded Mar 15 at 5:50
How does the Inspector's speech contradict Birling's speech in the play "An Inspector Calls"?
Awarded Mar 14 at 19:27
Why didn't Mercédès marry Edmond Dantès at the end in Count of Monte Cristo?
Awarded Mar 14 at 15:07
Meaning of “But mercy is above this sceptred sway” from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Awarded Mar 14 at 12:57
How did Theseus woo Hippolyta by doing her injuries?
Awarded Mar 13 at 19:18
Source for the "monsters under our bed" quote attributed to Darwin
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Why does Prof. Van Helsing abort his plan to mutilate Lucy's body?
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When was Hermann Hesse arrested for ‘seducing a young girl’?
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