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Why did Stephen King choose room number 217?

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What are "the feelings of an Emma towards her Henry"?

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When or where did Gustave Flaubert say that Alexander Pushkin's work was "dull"?

12 votes

What does "rob it of a few petrified spars" mean in "Pride and Prejudice"?

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When was Hermann Hesse arrested for ‘seducing a young girl’?

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What is a "sixpenny hop" in D. H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"?

10 votes

Where in "À la recherche du temps perdu" does the main character indicate that he would be named after the author?

10 votes

What is the "love-god's string" in Sarojini Naidu's "A Song in Spring"?

9 votes
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Version of Dracula (Bram Stoker)

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What does "I believe they’re superior to grandmothers" mean?

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What does it mean for a "bad eye" to "touch" something?

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Are these lines by Thomas Nuce a translation and/or taken from a longer poem?

8 votes

When and how did the nickname "the Nightingale of India" originate?

7 votes
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What did Peer Gynt look like?

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Who is the 'pale Titan-woman' in Swinburne's 'Ave atque Vale'?

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Does the blackness in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader have any religious significance?

7 votes

Where did Wordsworth describe Keats's poetry as "very pretty paganism"?

7 votes

Meaning of "too silver for a seam" in "A Bird, came down the Walk"

6 votes

Whereabouts is the setting of Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts?

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Why does Masha address Wild-Eye as "Parmuska"?

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What is the "slow wheel" in Frost's "Into My Own"?

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Help me find a book about a boy and a drawing bug

5 votes

To what Mrs. Partingtons and to what martyrs of Chicago does Tucker allude in the first chapter of 'Individual Liberty'?

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Vergil or Virgil?

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Was Akutagawa's Shōgun ("The General") ever censored in Japan? If so, how?

5 votes

What is the title of this book about a female writer embroiled in a murder mystery?

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Of what trumpery, of what dormant statute does Swift write in "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity"?

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Did Jascha Heifetz really have a connection to Odessa, as suggested in Babel's 'The Awakening'?

4 votes

What does the title of "Leili" mean?

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What is the relation (if any) of Fanny Buitrago to her biographer Letty Buitrago?

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