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2:34 AM

Q: Is this sentence in The Count of Monte Cristo supposed to refer to Fernand or to Albert?

Background In Chapter Seventy-Eight of The Count of Monte Cristo Albert shows Monte Cristo the following article from the newspaper: A correspondent at Yanina informs us of a fact of which until now we had remained in ignorance. The castle which formed the protection of the town was given up...

Alex

@Bookworm Hmm, 100% of non-closed the-count-of-monte-cristo questions are mine.

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CowperKettle

11:01 AM

Tomorrow is Eliza Doolitle Day

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Gareth Rees

1:45 PM

@Bookworm This became a Hot Network Question, so it's a chance to see if the HNQ chatroom feed is working.

CowperKettle

Alex

2:23 PM

@GarethRees In my experience in another chatroom, the Hot Network Questions feed misses quite a few Hot Network Questions.

Gareth Rees

@Alex I see what you mean. The question appeared in the feed when it was built at Sun, 19 May 2019 13:41:23 GMT, but then disappeared from the feed when it was built at Sun, 19 May 2019 14:26:45 GMT.

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Bookworm

6:47 PM

Q: Why the "gambler" from dostoevsky is so popular?

I think there is a reason for every popular romance to be popular. But when I read the Gambler I didn't find any interesting reason. Such an interesting reason which makes this romance such popular.

fyodor-dostoyevsky

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Bookworm

9:03 PM

Q: Why are German language editions of Game of Thrones much more expensive than their original version counterparts?

In 2019, George R. R. Martin has published 5 out of a planned 7 novels in the series A Song of Fire and Ice (commonly referred to as Game of Thrones based on the TV adaptation and the title of the first book). Searching on Amazon.de for English language series of books, I observe that it is poss...