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Bookworm

04:33

Q: Book about a mathematical British captain

I read an English-language novel around 2005 that chronicled the life of a fictional man from 1800's England—his childhood, work as a sailor, marriage, and promotion to captain. The cover shows part of a ship in water, and seemed to be written for young adults. Throughout the book, the man is esp...

story-identification

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user185131

11:37

@Randal'Thor Thanks for catching my typo here: mythology.wikia.com/wiki/Yggdrasil. I actually meant to say "Use the reopen-votes tag for questions about the process of reopening a closed question" but forgot to change the latter half of the sentence. Maybe you could replace the current version with the above line, or add it as a new sentence?

Mithical

wrong link?

user185131

Huh. Something's wrong with me today

user185131

Hang on: literature.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/reopen-votes/info

user185131

I was reading this answer on another tab, and mixed everything up :)

Tsundoku

14:01

Has anybody ever heard of The Zelmenyaners by Moyshe Kulbak? It appears to be a classic of Yiddish literature.

Mithical

nope

Bookworm

14:34

Q: A question about a book authored by Graham Greene

I have read a book written by Graham Greene. The name of the book is "The third man".The book very much likens to a book written by Agatha christie -"Ten little niggers" and With the same novel "And there were none" My question is Who is the third m...