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Arts & Literature
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.
'Molly Vickers wets her knickers'This was the first line of a poem I heard at Primary school about 25 years ago. Does anyone know who wrote it and its title?
What is a Doctor of Letters? No silly answers please!
I need help with finding a book. I was on holiday a month ago in England and I was in WH Smith in Colchester Train Station and spied a book that was no 1 in their charts. It had a bit of a blurb at...
Does anyone reckon the diaries of sylvia plath to be worth reading or profound for someone who dosent read much of anything?
Can anyone give me any clues as to what this is about?! I'm fairly desperate and would welcome any comments!!! Thanks x x x
Please explain Williams' writing style in regards to Modernism.
anybody know what fiction publishers specialise in fantasy?
Does anyone know of a Bible story/parable: Where a man asks his 3 sons to completely fill a room? One son fills the room with sand, the other with straw(maybe?) and the final son places a candle in...
My Daughter, who is 14, wants the Sharon Osbourne Autobiography. Has anybody read it, and more importantly is it suitable reading for a 14 year old. Thanks in advance.
when i was in year 5 my teacher read to me the book and i loved it but i want to know the author of the book so that i can read other' s of the authors works. I think it was a man?!
I am sure I have read about a book with this title or someting similar. It is a therapy type book I think where a lot of how you feel /what you do as an adult is based on how your parents treated you....
Which books istart with the following. "The deportation order arrived one clear bright morning early in April. "Early spring, Saturday, Salisbury market day, and, as it happened, Grand National Day...
1973 novel by agatha christie featuring the character mary jordan 7-2-4 thanks
james joyce book piblished postumously in 1944 7-4 thanks
Hiya, I just wondered what you thought of teenage magazines. The girls in them, are they good role models for teenagers? Also what do you think about the messages that teenage magazines are sending to...
I have just bought a book on amazon for 1p .Postage was 2.75p . How do they do it? Assuming I get he book......
When I was about twelve I read a book about a young boy who was either befriended, or chased by a man who had survived a public hanging after being convicted for grave robbing.The man had survived the...
Last night i was reading a few pages of the book the girl next to me on the train had (annoying - i know!). It seemed really good but i felt silly asking her what it was and rude as i had been reading...
Does anyone else like the books by Steven Appleby - an illustrative author with a wicked sense of humour? His books include "Mr Concerned Home Therapy" and "Secret Thoughts of..." Brilliant stuff and...
Which novelist's work has been characterised as having three periods: James I, James II and the Old Pretender?