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Adarsha Hindu Hotel
Adarsha Hindu Hotel (আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল) is a 1940 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay about Hazari Thakur, a poor Brahmin cook who opens his own hotel in Ranaghat.
Addendum
Addendum (plural addenda): material added to a completed book, report, or contract. From Latin addendus, attested in English 1794. Distinct from amendment, errata, and annex; signed like the original in law.
Address to a Haggis
Address to a Haggis is a 1786 Scots-language poem by Robert Burns praising haggis over refined foreign food; first published in the Caledonian Mercury, it is recited at Burns Suppers as the haggis is carved.
Adhyatma Ramayanam
Adhyatma Ramayanam, also called Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu (അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണം), is a foundational Malayalam classic by Thunchath Ezhuthachan, retelling Rama's story in the kilippattu verse form and still recited across Kerala during the month of Karkidakam.
Adi Charit
Adi Charit (আদি চৰিত) is an Assamese book attributed to the saint-poet Madhavadeva that presents an early history of Lakhimpur in upper Assam, first published in 1910.
Adili na Nduguze
Adili na Nduguze (Adili and His Brothers) is a 1952 allegorical novel in Kiswahili by Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, the middle work of his allegorical trilogy.
Adipurana
Adipurana (आदिपुराण) is the name of two Jain narrative classics on the first Tirthankara Rishabhanatha: Jinasena's ninth-century Sanskrit epic and Pampa's Kannada rendering of 941.
Adjusting Sights
Adjusting Sights (Te'um Kavanot) is a 1999 war novel by Israeli rabbi Haim Sabato about a yeshiva student serving as a tank gunner in the Yom Kippur War.
Adolphe
Adolphe is a short French novel by Benjamin Constant, written in 1806 and published in London in 1816, telling of a young aristocrat's liaison with the older Ellénore.
Adonais
Adonais is a pastoral elegy in 55 Spenserian stanzas that Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in 1821 to mourn John Keats, who died in Rome at 25.
Adrian Mole
Adrian Mole (Adrian Albert Mole), fictional English diarist created by Sue Townsend; first appeared in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1982), over 20 million copies sold; eight volumes 1982–2009, adapted for radio, TV, stage, and musical.
Adrift on the Nile
Adrift on the Nile, Arabic Tharthara fawq al-Nil, is a 1966 novel by Naguib Mahfouz about Cairo professionals who gather on a houseboat to smoke hashish and talk until tragedy breaks the group apart.
Advanced Idea Mechanics
Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) is a Marvel Comics fictional scientist terrorist organization created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Strange Tales #146 (July 1966), originating as Hydra's science division and creating the Cosmic Cube and M.O.D.O.K.
Adventure fiction
Adventure fiction is a genre centered on heroes overcoming obstacles and dangers on an important mission, prominent in children's literature and Victorian imperial fiction from Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, and Haggard onward.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's picaresque novel (1884 London, 1885 US), follows Huck and the enslaved Jim down the Mississippi; famed Hemingway landmark, among the most frequently banned American books.
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem in twelve books by the Roman poet Virgil, written between 29 and 19 BC, telling how Aeneas journeys from Troy to Italy.
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero (はぐれ勇者の美学)
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero (Hagure Yuusha no Estetica, はぐれ勇者の鬼畜美学) is a HJ Bunko light novel series by Tetsuto Uesu about hero Akatsuki Ousawa, who returns from Alayzard with the Demon King's daughter Myuu and enrolls in BABEL; adapted into a 12-episode 2012 anime by ARMS, unfinished at volume 11 since 2013.
Aethiopica
The Aethiopica, also known as Theagenes and Charicleia, is an ancient Greek novel in ten books by Heliodorus of Emesa, the longest surviving Greek novel.
Aetia
Aetia (Αἴτια, "Causes") is a four-book elegiac poem by the Hellenistic Greek poet Callimachus, written at Alexandria in the third century BCE and explaining the origins of rituals, customs, and place-names.
Afanggong Fu
Afanggong Fu (阿房宫赋) is a fu written in 825 by the Tang poet Du Mu, warning through the fall of Epang Palace that extravagance destroyed the Qin.
Africa's Cultural Revolution
Africa's Cultural Revolution is a 1973 collection of essays by the Ugandan poet and anthropologist Okot p'Bitek, published in Nairobi, arguing for African cultural renewal and literature in African languages.
Afrikaans essay
An Afrikaans essay, known in schools as the opstel, is a prose composition written in Afrikaans, spanning school examination writing and the literary essay of Afrikaans literature.
Afro-Cuban Tales
Afro-Cuban Tales is the English title of Cuentos negros de Cuba, Lydia Cabrera's foundational 1940 collection of Afro-Cuban folktales drawn from lucumí and congo oral tradition, translated into English in 2004.
Afsana
Afsana (افسانہ) is the Urdu short story, a prose narrative shorter than a novel concentrating on a single incident, character, or mood; established by Premchand over a century ago.
Afsaneh
Afsaneh (افسانه, "Legend") is a long Persian poem by Nima Yushij, the father of modern Persian poetry. It founded the foundational She'r-e No movement in 1922.
After (Todd novel)
After is a 2014 romance novel by American writer Anna Todd, which began as One Direction fan fiction on Wattpad and grew into a franchise with a 2019 film adaptation.
After God (アフターゴッド)
After God (アフターゴッド) is a Japanese manga series by Sumi Eno, serialized on Shogakukan's Ura Sunday since 2021, about a girl with a god's eyes after gods invaded Japan.
After Lorca
After Lorca is Jack Spicer's first book of poetry, published in San Francisco in 1957, mixing translations and invented letters to the dead poet Federico García Lorca.
After Russia
After Russia (После России) is a 1928 poetry collection by Marina Tsvetaeva, her last published in her lifetime, gathering 160 poems written in emigration between 1922 and 1925.
After the Ball
After the Ball (После бала) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1903 and first published posthumously in 1911, based on an episode from his brother Sergei's life.