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- C, L, and R scattered throughout this play? (1 replies)
- Inheritance (1 replies)
- The better classical epic poet: Homer or Vergil? (5 replies)
- Revolutionary Road, Non-Male (0 replies)
- Dull pain, totalitarianism, communism and shackled artists: fiction books (1 replies)
- have you memorised poems, books etc, and if so why? (23 replies)
- Beautiful books (volumes) (11 replies)
- RIP Barry Hines. (4 replies)
- poets, novelists, or any type of artist who suffered/got killed because of their art? (7 replies)
- Isn't it weird and wrong to 'interpret meanings' that the author never intended? (11 replies)
- Salman Rushdie... what do you think of his writings? (4 replies)
- Is Goethe's Faust based on an a historical character? (1 replies)
- Similar book about women as "Woman Who Run With the Wolves" C. P. Estés? (0 replies)
- In your opinion what is the main dilemma\ difficulty in 1984? (2 replies)
- Children literature recommendations! (18 replies)
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens. Novel of social ascension? (6 replies)
- How do you decide what to read next? (10 replies)
- Umberto Eco is no longer (11 replies)
- what makes the perfect sentence? (3 replies)
- Do I have a good translation of 'The Divine Comedy'? (9 replies)
- how long till a book gives up? (11 replies)
- Frederick J Lyons...anyone know anything about this author? (1 replies)
- Is there a novel or story concerning soothsayers or witch-hunt and magic realism? (0 replies)
- Sexy Quotes (11 replies)
- Most emotionally powerful sentences you have experienced (6 replies)
- It`s some literature or story about love defender & witchesin process of witchcraft? (2 replies)
- Challenge: Please help me remember the name of this book!! (4 replies)
- Crime Fiction in the Library Of America (2 replies)
- Do you know literature or history of mysterious undiscovered, closed women and man.. (2 replies)
- How Franz Kafka (INFP) found himself in his literature and views? (1 replies)
- O.Henry short story title, "The Sham" ??? (0 replies)
- asking for recommendations of Russian literature (fiction + non-fiction) & poetry (23 replies)
- Is there is any legend or story of some mystery woman which is like a "ghost ship"? (3 replies)
- the stereotypical wriiter (6 replies)
- Anyone know this book? (4 replies)
- Best way to find contemporary literature (2 replies)
- What is a Round? (5 replies)
- a question of Black Meridian (1 replies)
- Surrealism in Literature (14 replies)
- Disturbing Literature (21 replies)
- Indian Poetry (3 replies)
- How would you start off a story? (17 replies)
- Searching for a short story (2 replies)
- Binoculars For Beast (2 replies)
- Psychological Realism (2 replies)
- Why do you read books? (please answer in one sentence) (41 replies)
- Page turners (10 replies)
- “Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.” Paul Auster (13 replies)
- Which is the first book you remember reading? (17 replies)
- Your Five favourite Short Story Collections (2 replies)
- Hi! (0 replies)
- Books of a Certain Ilk (11 replies)
- GB Shaw: Major Barbara (7 replies)
- Questions about"On Sorrow" by Dr.Johnson and "Of Studies" by Francis Bacon (0 replies)
- what is your ideal story/book? (6 replies)
- Japanese Reception of Orwell? (1 replies)
- How the Action Flows in Dragonquest (0 replies)
- Any Joseph Conrad experts out there? (5 replies)
- Superman - his life is devided into two parts. (1 replies)
- Books that have won Foreign Literacy Prizes (6 replies)
- the villain in every story (10 replies)
- Crime, espionage and war novels and chronicles. (0 replies)
- Books to look forward to in 2016? (0 replies)
- Books I could not finish in 2015 (3 replies)
- Fahrenheit 451: Hero's Journey/Quest Opinions and Help (2 replies)
- help needed pls (16 replies)
- Your best book of 2015. (40 replies)
- What is the point of themes? (6 replies)
- What question would you ask a post room 101 Winston Smith from 1984? (0 replies)
- A book to read / Help! (3 replies)
- Cloud Atlas (0 replies)
- Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. (3 replies)
- George Steiner on Lawrence Durrell, baroque prose, and the impoverishment of English (4 replies)
- Recommendations for funny literature? (7 replies)
- The Underwhelming Novels of Orwell and Burgess (12 replies)
- who are your 3 favorite authors of all time (25 replies)
- Your 3 favourite short stories (40 replies)
- Zero K - Don DeLillo (5 replies)
- Searching for Lectures of Aldous Huxley (2 replies)
- Questions about ''A Conversation with My Father"(by Grace Paley) (0 replies)
- Dragons of Dragonflight (spoiler warning) (10 replies)
- Looking for a short story (Disturbing) (1 replies)
- Examples of Greek values in The Odyssey? (3 replies)
- Short Story title/author (0 replies)
- does a story have to have glory? (6 replies)
- Looking for recommendations for some funny short story collections or authors (36 replies)
- Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything Discussion (6 replies)
- Shapes metaphorically or abstractly does not work. (0 replies)
- Need help finding a short story (3 replies)
- short story about parenting (9 replies)
- Robert Holdstock's Lost Stories (7 replies)
- Flaws of oblivion (4 replies)
- As I lay Dying line from homer's Odyssey (4 replies)
- &c. (6 replies)
- Bananas Beaches and Bases by Cynthia Enloe (3 replies)
- English dissertation idea - dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction. (13 replies)
- the concept of a corpus of books (1 replies)
- How is Romeo Presented in Act1sc1,Act1sc5 & Act3sc1 of R & J Baz Luhrmann Film? (2 replies)
- How is Romeo Presented in Romeo and Juliet in Act1sc1,Act1sc5,Act3sc1 (0 replies)
- can literature promote violence? (31 replies)
- what is renaissance? (10 replies)
- Does great art flourish in periods of wealth and power? Or "wars make good arts?" (13 replies)
- Can't remember name of short story! (3 replies)
- Can self-publishing transcend the lack of a gatekeeper? (8 replies)
- list of grounbreaking books (15 replies)
- what is up with the swedish academy's obsession with obscure writers? (69 replies)
- Svetlana Alexievich wins 2015 Nobel prize in literature (21 replies)
- Araby from Dubliners by James Joyce (4 replies)
- wriitng and censorship (4 replies)
- Would I waste time reading only fiction? (16 replies)
- Close analysis on letters? (4 replies)
- What story is this? (3 replies)
- Gatsby (4 replies)
- Alterative Ways of learning (3 replies)
- Gilles Deleuze's Critique et clinique: Literature and life (0 replies)
- A request for poetic literature recommendations... (31 replies)
- Graham Greene (8 replies)
- Looking for the title of a book (big family, riddle, piece of paper) (0 replies)
- Thumbs up Never read so many classics since I discovered ebooks ! (4 replies)
- D.H. Lawrence (2 replies)
- Looking for a work that deals with the topic "ideal" (3 replies)
- To be a great writer, all you have to do is cens the English language up the censored (7 replies)
- Mythology recommendations, please (7 replies)
- Steppenwolf (6 replies)
- The Buried Giant (6 replies)
- For The Vine by Coolbroman (1 replies)
- Houellebecq (145 replies)
- oliver goldsmith (2 replies)
- The dictionaries you use (23 replies)
- for literature's argument (4 replies)
- English author about Russia (4 replies)
- Amazon no more (91 replies)
- Rabelais: just nonsense? (10 replies)
- Looking for an Ian McEwan anecdote... (0 replies)
- Verse Novel Enthusiasts (7 replies)
- A quick question about George Orwell's 1984 (3 replies)
- Why is Robert Musil underrated? (2 replies)
- The Japanese literature canon? (4 replies)
- Why isn't chinese literature more popular? (33 replies)
- Shortest published story (27 replies)
- Searching vocabulary in batch processes, in online dictionaries. (2 replies)
- What is literature to you? (37 replies)
- Combining songs with story telling (7 replies)
- Fans of Purple Prose? (19 replies)
- Is Riverton Manor in Kate Morton's novel an existing place? (0 replies)
- Space of a moon (5 replies)
- historical romance novels (7 replies)
- Man Booker Long List 2015 (2 replies)
- Turning Novels Into Films (11 replies)
- Keeping Track of New Books (8 replies)
- Where are book reviews? of John P. Anderson's books (0 replies)
- Thanking E.L. Doctorow: R.I.P. (3 replies)
- Who is the most interesting fictional character you know and why? (32 replies)
- Such is the fate of all the dainty things that dance in wind or water. (1 replies)
- Is the short story not as prestigous as the novel? (58 replies)
- paraphrase this sentence (0 replies)
- I just got into reading and I feel like I am really behind. (12 replies)
- Recommendations for types of books I'm looking for (Japanese Horror). (2 replies)
- were all great minds speed readers? (1 replies)
- How many books do you usually read a year? (10 replies)
- Comics that are closest to being good literature? (10 replies)
- Greatest modern Chinese writers? (3 replies)
- What " Come" means at the begining of the following sentence? (1 replies)
- the meaning of the bold piece of this sentence? (0 replies)
- What is the meaning of" at the other season"? (1 replies)
- what is the meaning of these sentences? (12 replies)
- what is the meaning of these sentences. (2 replies)
- what the author wants to say here?: (1 replies)
- what is the meaning of this se3ntence? (2 replies)
- Dumb river (6 replies)
- There and there. (2 replies)
- "Blood Meridian" vs "Lonesome Dove" (28 replies)
- what is the meaning of these sentences. (5 replies)
- how does American literature compare to English literature? (36 replies)
- paraphrase this sentence (3 replies)
- Travelogue Recommendations (18 replies)
- Atticus Finch: Racist (40 replies)
- Which novels have moved you to tears ? (19 replies)
- what is the meaning of these sentences? (8 replies)
- Time Travel Stories (5 replies)
- The Summer before the Dark (2 replies)
- what is the meaning of these sentences. (7 replies)
- your least favourite shakespeare play ? (189 replies)
- Books on human nature? (2 replies)
- dialect versus standard language (3 replies)
- Colloqialisms for the Devil (5 replies)
- Ideas for plays for grandkids (8 replies)
- Remember reading? (0 replies)
- A slap on the wrist (Short story) (0 replies)
- How were female characters depicted in the 1950s literature? (37 replies)
- What are examples of the use of foreignness as a sign of villainy? (17 replies)
- Which of the literary works of the 1950s and 60s reflected the sexual revolution? (3 replies)
- I have 7 months left to live. What are 10 books that I should read before I die? (11 replies)
- contemporary English literature suggestion (5 replies)
- Big themes for the 21st century (22 replies)
- Can anybody help to praphrase these words? (17 replies)
- Just started this, what do you think? First time I have done anything like this (2 replies)
- Grammar Manual for a Native English Speaker? (11 replies)
- Christine Donougher's Translation of Les Miserables: Is It Good? (10 replies)
- Authors/Literature with themes of abandonment issues (Mommy and Daddy issues)? (1 replies)
- Novels About Survivors of Abuse (5 replies)
- Do we reach the same interpretation ? (1 replies)
- Sunday Afternoon Intergalactic Message Transmitted from the Toilet-Throne of the Illi (5 replies)
- Best long novels (22 replies)
- Writers on Writers (6 replies)
- Is my idea of people's interpetations correct ? (4 replies)
- what the author wants to say here?: (0 replies)
- Tempest (1 replies)
- Tempest (18 replies)
- Leon Trotsky on literature (13 replies)
- would anyone be interested in a lit net top 100 books 2000-2015? (11 replies)
- The name of the writer whose subject matter is life behind bars (4 replies)
- Is Anna Karenina a nightmare? (4 replies)
- The first book ever? (24 replies)
- A Manifesto Written by the Only Sane Person on the Planet (6 replies)
- Anyone read Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel? If so what did you think? (2 replies)
- Is Donna Tartt's THE GOLDFINCH a great novel? (39 replies)
- The theory of Evolution! (simple) (49 replies)
- Question about Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (7 replies)
- Moby Dick Confusion, Mind Explosion (2 replies)
- Paul Auster and Knut Hamsun (1 replies)
- Need help with contrastive analysis 19th and 20th century English literature (4 replies)
- Best books about the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon? (5 replies)
- Reading in foreign language before reading in native language. (1 replies)
- What audiobooks have the best narrators? (16 replies)
- Hedda Gabler Lit Analysis - Opinions? (3 replies)
- Intorduction to Literary Theory (9 replies)
- "A Short Defense of Literary Excess" by Ben Masters (2 replies)
- Do You Think Other Species in the Universe are Creating Greater Literature than Man? (23 replies)
- Annotated editions of Carlyle's The French Revolution -- and other books? (1 replies)
- [YOUR THOUGHTS ] From a literature standpoint, should I study German or French? (14 replies)
- Primary purpose of a passage (5 replies)
- Notions of will and fate in Greek Tragedy vs Modern Tragedy (2 replies)
- Role of intellect in creating tragedies (14 replies)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1 replies)
- "In Defense of Purple Prose" by Paul West (4 replies)
- We need Moral Art (8 replies)
- the nature of literary meanings (2 replies)
- The Manifesto of Illiterate Literature (2 replies)
- discuss & analysis (1 replies)
- Should a non-native speaker write in english? (7 replies)
- The Code of the Woosters (6 replies)
- Some thoughts after finishing Atlas Shrugged (0 replies)
- movie to book and book to movie (30 replies)
- what is literature littered with today? (25 replies)
- Anyone care to offer a review of James Sallis' work? (0 replies)
- Does Being Intelligent Have Anything to Do with Writing Good Literature? (92 replies)
- Must language in theatre's plays be the daily language? (2 replies)
- Dialogue propelling action in short story "Kaleidoscope" by Ray Bradbury (2 replies)
- Harold Bloom (47 replies)
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