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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner's 1936 Random House novel about Thomas Sutpen's Mississippi plantation dynasty, told through layered narrators including Rosa Coldfield and Quentin Compson, as an allegory of the South's legacy of slavery.
Absolute Batman
Absolute Batman (2024–) is a DC Comics series by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta reimagining Batman as a poor, 24-year-old civil engineer in the Darkseid-shaped Absolute Universe, with a billionaire Joker and childhood-friend villains.
Absolute Duo
Absolute Duo (アブソリュート・デュオ) is a Japanese light novel by Hiiragi★Takumi and Asaba Yuu, published by MF Bunko J in 11 volumes (2012–2016, on hiatus), adapted into a 2015 Eight Bit anime covering volumes 1–4 and a four-volume manga by Shinichirou Nariie.
Absolute Flash
Absolute Flash is a 2025 DC Comics series by Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles reimagining Wally West as the Flash of the Absolute Universe, without Barry Allen, his family, or the Speed Force, launched March 19, 2025.
Absolute Green Lantern
Absolute Green Lantern is an ongoing DC Comics cosmic-horror series by Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay in the Absolute Universe, launched April 2, 2025, starring Jo Mullein with no Corps, ring, or willpower, and action-based Levels of Light replacing the emotional spectrum.
Absolute Martian Manhunter
Absolute Martian Manhunter is a 12-issue DC limited series (2025-2026) by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez, part of the Absolute Universe, reinventing Martian Manhunter as FBI agent John Jones bonded to an alien mind; it won three 2026 Eisner Awards.
Absolute Superman
Absolute Superman is a DC Comics ongoing series launched November 6, 2024 by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval, reinventing Kal-El in the Absolute Universe as an adult Kryptonian refugee hunted by the Lazarus Corp, with arcs Last Dust of Krypton, Son of the Demon, and Get Brainiac.
Absolute Wonder Woman
Absolute Wonder Woman is a DC Comics series launched October 23, 2024 in the Absolute Universe, reimagining Diana as the last Amazon, raised in Hell by Circe; by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, winner of the 2025 Eisner Award for Best New Series.
Absurdist fiction
Absurdist fiction, also called literature of the absurd, is a genre where characters seek meaning in a meaningless universe; key figures include Kafka, Camus, Beckett, and Kharms, with fragmented, tragicomic, circular narratives.
Abu Lala Mahari
Abu Lala Mahari is a lyric poem by Avetik Isahakyan about the 11th-century Arab poet Abu al-'Ala al-Ma'arri; written in 1909–1910, it was first published in 1911.
Abundance (Klein and Thompson book)
Abundance: How We Build a Better Future is a March 2025 book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson arguing liberals' own regulations block housing, energy, and infrastructure supply; a #1 NYT bestseller that launched the center-left abundance movement.
Academic writing
Academic writing: formal, evidence-based scholarly prose defined by citation, hedging, and genre conventions like IMRD; varies by discipline and now reshaped by generative AI use by 92% of students.
Accel World (アクセル・ワールド)
Accel World (アクセル・ワールド) is Reki Kawahara's Dengeki Novel Prize-winning light novel series about Haruyuki, Brain Burst, and the 1000x Accelerated World; adapted by Sunrise into a 2012 TV anime and the 2016 film Infinite Burst.
Ace of Diamond (ダイヤのA)
Ace of Diamond (ダイヤのA, Daiya no Ēsu) is Yuji Terajima's high school baseball manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2006–2022, 81 volumes across two parts, Shogakukan Manga Award winner, with four anime seasons.
Achaeans (χαιοί) (Homer)
Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί, Achaioi; title form "χαιοί" is a truncation) are Homer's collective name, with Danaans and Argives, for the Greeks at Troy; linked by scholars to Hittite Ahhiyawa and Egyptian Danaja.
Achilleid
The Achilleid is an unfinished Latin epic by the Roman poet Statius, recounting Achilles' youth from Chiron to his discovery on Scyros and journey to Troy.
Achilles and Patroclus
Achilles (Ἀχιλλεύς) and Patroclus (Πάτροκλος), Homeric Iliad companions: Patroclus's exile from Opus, death in Achilles's armor, shared golden urn burial, ancient lover-versus-comrade debate, and modern reception.
Acque e terre
Acque e terre (Waters and Lands) is the first poetry collection of the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, published in Florence in May 1930 and centered on Sicily.
Acrostic
Acrostic: a poem or text in which selected letters, usually the first letter of each line, spell a hidden word or phrase vertically; types include telestich, mesostich, and abecedarian, with roots in the Hebrew Bible.
Action Comics
Action Comics is DC Comics' long-running superhero anthology series that introduced Superman in June 1938, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; it launched the superhero genre, ran 904 issues in its first volume, and holds the Guinness record for longest-running superhero comic.
Action Comics 1
Action Comics #1 (June 1938 cover date, on sale April 18, 1938) is the DC anthology comic introducing Siegel and Shuster's Superman and Lois Lane; 200,000 printed, about 100 survive, and copies have sold for up to $15 million.
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov about Van and Ada Veen, set on Antiterra, a counter-earth blending Russian and American history.
Adachi and Shimamura
Adachi and Shimamura (安達としまむら) is Hitoma Iruma's ongoing yuri light novel series in Dengeki Bunko Magazine since 2013, about two class-skipping high school girls who fall in love; adapted into a 2020 Tezuka Productions anime, a Moke Yuzuhara manga, and English editions.
Adam Bede
Adam Bede is George Eliot's first novel, published in 1859 under her pen name and set in the rural English Midlands at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Adam Dalgliesh
Adam Dalgliesh is the poet-detective of P. D. James's fourteen novels (1962-2008), from Cover Her Face to The Private Patient: a widowed Scotland Yard commander, son of a Norfolk parson, later played on television by Roy Marsden, Martin Shaw, and Bertie Carvel.
Adam Šangala
Adam Šangala is a 1923 historical novel by the Slovak physician-writer Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, following a serf's son from Orava who refuses to submit to the powerful.
Adán Buenosayres
Adán Buenosayres is a 1948 novel by the Argentine writer Leopoldo Marechal, portraying a bohemian poet's journey through 1920s Buenos Aires with his martinfierrista friends.
Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings
Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings: film, radio, TV, stage, and game versions of Tolkien's 1954-55 novel, from the 1955 BBC serial and Bakshi's 1978 cartoon to Peter Jackson's $6 billion trilogy, Amazon's Rings of Power, and new Warner Bros. films.
Adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera
Adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera, also called Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, span film, musicals, immersive theatre and print from Leroux's 1910 novel, notably the 1925 Lon Chaney film, De Palma's 1974 rock musical, Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical, and filmed versions set for 2027.
Adaptations of visual novels
Adaptations of visual novels convert branching, text-heavy games, typically Japanese, into linear media such as anime, manga, or film, requiring adapters to select among multiple routes and endings.