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Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.

If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.

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Cheeris

Children's book I once read

When I was a nipper in the 80s, I vaguely remember getting a book out of the local children's library. It was a children's novel, fairly lengthy for a kids book, and it was the story (I think) of a...
13:29 Fri 16th Oct 20093 answers, last by inksplotter 07:07 Fri 09th May 2014
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HaizeyDays

Unique Magicians' Club, London.

I have found a certificate and a badge that shows that my Great-grandfather was a member of this club. I would like to know a bit more about this organisaton, but I can't find a thing on the internet....
13:09 Mon 19th Oct 20094 answers, last by Eric542 11:20 Fri 02nd Sep 2011
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flicrat

Sandman Stories

Does anyone else remember 'the Sandman Stories' - improving little books that we used to get in our Xmas stockings in the late '40s?They were very Victorian moral type stories, so may have been...
20:24 Sun 18th Oct 20093 answers, last by flicrat 00:32 Sun 01st Nov 2009
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flip_flop

Dan Brown

Why is there so much intellectual snobbery about Dan Brown? The News Quiz on Radio 4 are always having a pop at him - he may not be a Rushdie or a Keneally, but as a page-turning story-teller when all...
12:58 Wed 21st Oct 20098 answers, last by burbie 19:46 Fri 23rd Oct 2009
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mollykins

i.e. and e.g.

whats the difference?
17:04 Tue 20th Oct 200914 answers, last by Quizmonster 16:04 Thu 22nd Oct 2009
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janzman

alternatives.....

Can anyone suggest an alternative in English or any other language to the word Schadenfreude....taking pleasure in others misfortune (or maybe watching reality television).
20:29 Wed 14th Oct 20099 answers, last by chadad 23:16 Wed 21st Oct 2009
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bird 29

childrens book with names in the titles

I am looking to buy books for my granchildren Megan (9) and Molly (8) and would like a book with their names in the title. Can anyone suggest suitable books for their ages Thank a lot...
20:17 Tue 20th Oct 20095 answers, last by yinyang 13:51 Wed 21st Oct 2009
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angiealf

Copy right for photos

My boyfriend took an extremely good photo of Concorde when it did a fly over of Jersey, Channel Islands. My question is how does he get a copy right on it? He has sold a few copies.
10:38 Tue 20th Oct 20092 answers, last by angiealf 10:44 Wed 21st Oct 2009
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ruthandsam

First Edition Book and Old Comics to Sell

How would I go about finding out the value of a First Edition Book and some 30 year old Comics. I would like to sell them eventually but I'm a bit nervous about getting ripped off. Many thanks....
11:33 Mon 19th Oct 20093 answers, last by jno 14:55 Mon 19th Oct 2009
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angiealf

Copy right for book

I've written a book and am in the process of getting it published. How do I go about getting a copy right on it?
11:04 Sat 17th Oct 20095 answers, last by VHG 14:38 Mon 19th Oct 2009
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squirrel59

Does anybody remember an instrumental song done in the early 70s called "Joy"? It was inspired by Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

01:10 Mon 19th Oct 20091 answer, last by Jumbuck 07:01 Mon 19th Oct 2009
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DavidRayner1

Does anyone know the title of this early 1950's book?

There's a book that I've been trying to find for years that I used to have up to the age of seven years in 1954, so the book would be no later than that, but I can't track it down because I don't know...
16:23 Sun 18th Oct 20094 answers, last by DavidRayner1 20:38 Sun 18th Oct 2009
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molly-pot

Similes

Does anybody know a good website for finding similies, or know any?? Cheers (:...
18:55 Sun 11th Oct 20093 answers, last by sophie_1003 23:12 Sat 17th Oct 2009
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anneewan

SW Echo 17th Oct

A kind of glazed or enamelled earthenware 8 letters _ _ _ o_i_a Thanks in anticipation...
15:27 Sat 17th Oct 20092 answers, last by scotman 17:22 Sat 17th Oct 2009
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R1Geezer

Amazing Stories

I'm an avid Sci Fi reader and Robert Heinlein, is one of the author's I read a lot of. He wrote a short story for the above magazine in 1953, now I would love to get a copy of the actual magazine but...
15:27 Fri 16th Oct 20094 answers, last by Cheeris 21:48 Fri 16th Oct 2009
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vicious_sid

book valuation

anybody know of any free online book valuation sites? I'm trying to see if an uncorrected proof of floating dragon (peter straub) is worth anything...
21:14 Thu 15th Oct 20091 answer, last by grasscarp 15:17 Fri 16th Oct 2009
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flobadob

In the Poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling

What does this line mean? "If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run"...
00:19 Fri 16th Oct 20093 answers, last by flobadob 00:32 Fri 16th Oct 2009
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finn13

who painted sunflowers

14:55 Wed 14th Oct 20094 answers, last by yogasun 14:57 Wed 14th Oct 2009
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bubbles4920

sour grapes

is there another phrase for sour grapes which can be used in a formal document?
06:42 Tue 13th Oct 200910 answers, last by Ice.Maiden 00:35 Wed 14th Oct 2009
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woodelf

Snow

As well as silver, what colour is snow under a full moon, especially the shadows...I have forgotten. Ta Muchly.
11:06 Sun 11th Oct 20093 answers, last by woodelf 09:54 Mon 12th Oct 2009

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