Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea is a novel set mainly in the Amazon region of Brazil. It's clearly set quite some time before its publication date of 2001, what with a "governess" being a major character; but it must also be set after the 1880s, given the existence of Little Lord Fauntler...
If you quote or paraphrase a work of literature or other in a post here, please include a precise citation that allows others to find the passage in situ. I've noticed many posts on this site that have not done that, and it's starting to annoy me.
Questions probably benefit from citations more t...
Jay Gatsby in famous Fitzgerald's novel is no doubt smart, talented, brave. But he only pursues his own egoistic desires, quite delusional in his love affairs, does not hesitate to destroy a family, does not create anything, does not make others happy.
So why is he great?
In Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (Герой нашего времени), the main hero is Grigory Pechorin, a cynical noble army man, an example of superfluous Byronic hero.
The title of the novel has to refer to Pechorin himself - but why? What traits make Pechorin a "hero"? Or is it a negative descr...
What are the literary devices used in Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats, and to what effect? (I know this may be a little subjective but it would be great to see different interpretations of the same techniques)
This is one of Parra's "anti-poems" but I can't recall the exact wording, or which book it appeared in, and can't seem to find it online.
Q: What is the actual Parra poem?
Ideally the answer will feature the Spanish text.
I often find that an author's lesser-known works are among my favorites; some examples are Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat" and "The Wayward Bus", Jack London's "The Road," and Twain's "The American Claimant" (not to mention Grisham's "A Painted House").
Is there an online site that would show, filte...
On Puzzling, I noticed first that there wasn't an option to protect my own questions. I brought this up in chat, and other high-rep users replied that it has disappeared for them too.
Not sure if this is just Puzzling, or site wide, but I have just under 16k rep and have had the privilege a whil...
I can't help but notice that already, we have a lot of tags. I've gone through them and seen quite a few tags with a specific name of a book, with maybe 1 or 2 posts on it.
I'm thinking that okay, there are a few pieces of literature that a lot of questions have been asked about, but if we cont...
At the time, there were many Jewish bankers/moneylenders, so moneylenders were probably often portrayed as Jews.
For a very long time, the Jews have been associated with banking and money. There are a few reasons, such as that there were a lot of Jewish bankers after the 11th century. In The Enc...
