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- Whats the deal with Bilbo being some kind of burglar?
Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward, that’s how it is usually read You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like Some of them do It’s all the same to us As for your side-question, The Hobbit was written at a time when Tolkien's ideas about Middle Earth weren't as fleshed out yet
- How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without . . .
The dwarves trust the competence of a professional burglar selected by Gandalf The burglar will need to see the configuration of Smaug's cave, especially the side door, before deciding anything
- 80s-90s Female Cat Burglar accepts only Sapphires as payment
Read the story at least 30-40 years ago Book was in English, read in USA, probably a paperback The story follows the career of a female cat burglar in Europe (?; I think she was French or Italian
- charles dickens - Why does Marley in A Christmas Carol claim that . . .
In Dickens' famous tale A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley clearly states to Scrooge that he is to be visited on three consecutive nights: “Expect the first to-morrow, when the bell toll
- What classic mystery novels and stories led to the butler did it . . .
"The butler did it" is a common trope indicating a hackneyed solution to a mystery I have read several classic mysteries from the 1920s and earlier (Poe, Conan Doyle, Christie, Sayers, e
- short stories - Whats going on in Charlotte Riddells Old House in . . .
Maybe I'm looking too hard for meanings that aren't there, but can someone explain to me what's going on in Charlotte Riddell's Old House in Vauxhall Walk? How was the second burglar caught? What w
- poetry - What is the origin of this contradictory poem? - Literature . . .
With such a long history, it seems the best conclusion we can draw is that the idea of this poem has been around so long that it's pretty much a folk tradition It's been handed down from generation to generation, probably mostly orally, and has of course changed and mutated quite a lot over the last seven hundred years But trying to pin down an 'original author', for any particular version
- Middle-grade or YA book with a very smart teenager
That cover with diamonds and glasses reminds me about the books by Jude Watson She wrote a Scholastic book in 2015 called Loot with this cover On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find
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