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Why is there so much technical detail of whaling included in Moby-Dick?
Awarded Nov 24 at 2:06
What does "nada y pues nada" mean in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?
Awarded Oct 9 at 6:48
Did Gaiman and Pratchett troll an interviewer who thought they were religious fanatics?
Awarded Sep 15 at 9:02
Why didn't Mercédès marry Edmond Dantès at the end in Count of Monte Cristo?
Awarded Sep 5 at 1:51
Does the phrase "Jack of all trades, often times better than a master of one" come from Shakespeare?
Awarded Sep 1 at 14:06
Why does Mr. Poe cough so much?
Awarded Aug 9 at 12:02
What does this quote about caring whose lips someone kissed from The Great Gatsby mean?
Awarded Jul 8 at 19:17
"There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea." Did Aristotle really say this?
Awarded Jun 27 at 21:05
What were the ages of Bilbo and Frodo for these six major plot points?
Awarded Jun 21 at 3:32
Who or what does Benjamin the donkey represent in Animal Farm?
Awarded Jun 19 at 9:02
What are "abortive sorrows" and "short-winded elations" in "The Great Gatsby"?
Awarded May 27 at 0:37
Meaning/significance of "All the King's horses" in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme?
Awarded May 3 at 6:53
Is there any merit to reading the Poirot novels in order?
Awarded Apr 20 at 22:32
Why doesn't James Joyce ever use quotation marks?
Awarded Apr 7 at 8:38
In which version of "Snow White" is her name really "Lips Red as Blood, Hair Black as Ebony, Skin White as Snow"?
Awarded Apr 4 at 3:34
Was Tess raped?
Awarded Mar 25 at 2:56
What are the "dark Satanic mills" in Blake's Jerusalem?
Awarded Mar 16 at 18:32
In "The Third Level", does the third level really exist or is it a mere hallucination?
Awarded Mar 10 at 8:50
What was Dr. Seuss's intended message in "Horton Hears a Who"?
Awarded Mar 7 at 0:10
What does the line “Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.” mean, from Hamlet?
Awarded Feb 3 at 2:13
What's the meaning of the last two sentences in Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3?
Awarded Jan 28 at 10:56
Do a lot of Shakespeare characters break the fourth wall?
Awarded Jan 8 at 17:42
Why does Rebeca kill José Arcadio in One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Awarded Dec 29, 2024 at 3:52
Is Strattenburg, Pennsylvania based on a real town?
Awarded Dec 24, 2024 at 23:16
Is Alice in Wonderland about drugs?
Awarded Nov 27, 2024 at 13:20
Book about a runaway kid who lives in a hollow tree
Awarded Nov 19, 2024 at 14:42
Source of the quote "The only bad question is an unasked one"?
Awarded Nov 14, 2024 at 14:26
Is the name Crowley in Good Omens a reference to the famous occultist?
Awarded Nov 13, 2024 at 21:28
Where did the term Kwisatz Haderach in Dune originate?
Awarded Nov 1, 2024 at 14:23
What was the ethnicity of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?
Awarded Sep 25, 2024 at 16:40
What does "chartered" mean in Blake's poem "London"?
Awarded Sep 17, 2024 at 5:55
What message is Bradbury trying to convey in Fahrenheit 451?
Awarded Sep 16, 2024 at 19:37
Why did "they" go to sea in a sieve?
Awarded Jul 27, 2024 at 12:38
Is the character of Randolph Henry Ash based on any particular Victorian poet?
Awarded Jul 10, 2024 at 3:34
Jordan's line about intimate parties in The Great Gatsby?
Awarded May 28, 2024 at 16:57
What does the raven symbolize (besides death)?
Awarded May 9, 2024 at 6:56
How many of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience come in pairs?
Awarded Apr 26, 2024 at 10:42
Why is it called Watership Down?
Awarded Apr 26, 2024 at 1:31
What did Melville mean by the "Pythagorean Maxim" in "Moby Dick"?
Awarded Apr 6, 2024 at 11:25
Is there really a nuclear war in the world of "The Lord of the Flies"?
Awarded Mar 20, 2024 at 23:21
Did any of the Pevensie kings and queens find romance while in Narnia?
Awarded Feb 19, 2024 at 2:04
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..."
Awarded Feb 18, 2024 at 19:57
Why did the gods send the flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Awarded Feb 14, 2024 at 13:11
Why is Macbeth's "vaulting ambition" so important and famous?
Awarded Feb 7, 2024 at 21:50
Why did Alexandre Dumas use Greek names for the three musketeers?
Awarded Feb 5, 2024 at 8:55
Why was the ending of "And Then There Were None" changed for the stage version?
Awarded Jan 25, 2024 at 20:15
The relevance of "El Consejo De Los Dioses" by José Rizal
Awarded Jan 25, 2024 at 15:42
Why did Bill Watterson choose the character names he did?
Awarded Jan 23, 2024 at 9:35
What does Narcissa Malfoy's name say about her character?
Awarded Jan 17, 2024 at 11:46
Are Tigris in The Hunger Games and Tigris in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes the same person?
Awarded Jan 16, 2024 at 20:51
Where did Stephen King get the word "Shawshank" from?
Awarded Jan 12, 2024 at 1:47
What do “Háni" and “Sons éso tse-ná” mean in Brave New World?
Awarded Dec 27, 2023 at 17:17
Guy-Charles Cros quoted by Osamu Dazai: "comme un crapaud contourne une pierre"
Awarded Dec 17, 2023 at 10:41
What happens at the end of Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby?
Awarded Nov 18, 2023 at 19:55
What is the meaning of the epilogue in Blood Meridian?
Awarded Nov 16, 2023 at 21:06
What's the technique in 'To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.' from Macbeth?
Awarded Oct 30, 2023 at 17:18
Does Gandalf ever say this in the book "The Hobbit", or is it made up for the movie?
Awarded Oct 28, 2023 at 16:36
What is the distinction between "literary fiction" vs. "popular fiction"?
Awarded Oct 13, 2023 at 7:33
What kind of language features appear in Lady Macbeth's line "too full o' the milk of human kindness"?
Awarded Oct 2, 2023 at 9:41
Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?
Awarded Sep 27, 2023 at 23:35
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