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In Custody
In Custody is a 1984 novel by Anita Desai about a small-town lecturer's disastrous attempt to interview the aging Urdu poet he idolizes, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
In Death
In Death is Nora Roberts' futuristic police-procedural series written as J.D. Robb, starring NYPSD homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke in mid-21st-century New York, running since Naked in Death (1995) at two books a year.
In Dubious Battle
In Dubious Battle is John Steinbeck's 1936 novel of a California apple pickers' strike led by Communist organizers Mac and Jim Nolan, titled from Milton's Paradise Lost and based on 1933 strikes.
In Endor
In Endor (בעין דור) is a Hebrew ballad by Shaul Tchernichovsky, written in 1893, dramatizing King Saul's night visit to the medium of Endor before his final battle.
In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders Fields" is a 1915 war poem in rondeau form by Canadian physician John McCrae, written during the Second Battle of Ypres and famous for its poppy imagery.
In Mad Love and War
In Mad Love and War is a 1990 poetry collection by Joy Harjo, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation poet, her third, published by Wesleyan University Press.
In Memoriam A.H.H.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850), Alfred Lord Tennyson's elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam, who died at 22 in Vienna in 1833; 131 cantos in ABBA tetrameter quatrains, published anonymously the year Tennyson became Poet Laureate.
In Memory of Liu Hezhen
"In Memory of Liu Hezhen" (记念刘和珍君) is a memorial essay by Lu Xun, written in 1926 mourning student Liu Hezhen, killed in the March 18 Massacre in Beijing.
In Memory of the Forgotten
In Memory of the Forgotten (为了忘却的记念) is a 1933 memorial essay by the Chinese writer Lu Xun honoring five young left-wing writers secretly executed by Kuomintang agents in Shanghai.
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
"In Memory of W. B. Yeats" is a 1939 elegy by W. H. Auden for the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, among the most famous elegies of the 20th century.
In New York
In New York (Yiddish: אין ניו־יארק, In Nyu-York) is the first poetry collection of Yiddish modernist poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, published in New York in 1919 to wide acclaim.
In Parenthesis
In Parenthesis is a 1937 epic poem by British artist David Jones, following infantryman John Ball to Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme.
In Praise of Shadows
In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, In'ei raisan) is a 1933 essay by the novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki on Japanese aesthetics, finding beauty in shadow rather than bright light.
In Rufinum
In Rufinum ("Against Rufinus") is a two-book Latin invective poem by Claudian against Flavius Rufinus, Praetorian Prefect of the East, composed between 395 and 397.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time, or À la recherche du temps perdu, is a seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust, published between 1913 and 1927 and famous for its madeleine episode.
In Search of the Castaways
In Search of the Castaways (Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, The Children of Captain Grant) is Jules Verne's 1865–1868 three-volume adventure novel about a search along the 37th parallel south for the shipwrecked Captain Grant.
In Search of Walid Masoud
In Search of Walid Masoud (al-Baḥth ʿan Walid Masʿūd) is a 1978 Arabic novel by the Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra about a Palestinian intellectual in Baghdad who vanishes.
In Switzerland
"In Switzerland" (Polish: W Szwajcarii) is a love poem by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written between 1835 and 1838 and published in Paris in 1839.
In the American Grain
In the American Grain is a 1925 essay collection on American history by poet William Carlos Williams, attacking the Puritan legacy and celebrating figures who embraced the New World.
In the Bazaars of Hyderabad
"In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a 1912 lyric poem by Sarojini Naidu from The Bird of Time, portraying a Hyderabad bazaar through questions and vendors' answers.
In the Bleak Midwinter
In the Bleak Midwinter, also titled A Christmas Carol, is an 1872 Christina Rossetti poem set to music by Gustav Holst (Cranham, 1906) and Harold Darke (1909/1911), voted greatest Christmas carol in a 2008 BBC poll.
In the Cart
In the Cart («На подводе») is an 1897 short story by Anton Chekhov, following rural schoolteacher Marya Vasilyevna through a single day of travel filled with memories and reflections.
In the Castle of My Skin
In the Castle of My Skin is the 1953 debut novel of Barbadian writer George Lamming, following a boy from age nine to seventeen in a Barbadian village.
In the City of Slaughter
In the City of Slaughter (Be-ir ha-haregah) is a 1903 Hebrew poem by Haim Nahman Bialik about the Kishinev pogrom, often judged the century's most influential Hebrew poem.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses is an 1896 poetry collection by Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Angus and Robertson in Sydney.
In the Depths of the Siberian Mines
In the Depths of the Siberian Mines (Во глубине сибирских руд, "To Siberia") is an 1827 poem by Alexander Pushkin addressed to the Decembrists exiled to Siberia.
In the Eye of the Sun
In the Eye of the Sun is a 1992 novel by Ahdaf Soueif following a young Egyptian woman from 1967 Cairo through marriage and study in England.
In the First Circle
In the First Circle (В круге первом) is an autobiographical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, his first full-length novel, based on his imprisonment in a Soviet prison for scientists near Moscow.
In the Habitations of Death
In the Habitations of Death (German: In den Wohnungen des Todes) is Nelly Sachs's first poetry collection, published in Berlin in 1947, an elegiac cycle for Holocaust victims.
In the Heart of the Seas
In the Heart of the Seas (בלבב ימים, Bi-levav yamim) is a 1935 novella by Shmuel Yosef Agnon following pious Jews from Buczacz on their journey to the Land of Israel.