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In the Mecca
In the Mecca is a 1968 poetry collection by the American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, nominated for the National Book Award and marking her turn toward direct political verse.
In the Penal Colony
In the Penal Colony (In der Strafkolonie) is Kafka's 1914 story, published 1919, about an execution machine that inscribes sentences on the condemned, featuring an officer, a traveller, and the officer's self-execution.
In the Presence of Absence
In the Presence of Absence (في حضرة الغياب) is the last prose book of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, published in Beirut in 2006, two years before his death.
In the Ravine
In the Ravine (Russian: «В овраге») is a 1900 novella by Anton Chekhov, set in the village of Ukleevo and following the ruin of the wealthy Tsybukin family of traders.
In the Realms of the Unreal
In the Realms of the Unreal is Henry Darger's unpublished 15,145-page fantasy epic, The Story of the Vivian Girls, written c. 1910–1939 by the Chicago janitor and outsider artist, discovered in 1972 and held by the American Folk Art Museum.
In the Storehouse
In the Storehouse (蔵の中, Kura no naka) is a 1919 short story by Uno Kōji about a poor novelist airing out his long-pawned kimonos in a pawnshop's storehouse.
In the Tall Grass
In the Tall Grass: 2012 horror novella by Stephen King and Joe Hill, first published in two parts in Esquire, then as a Scribner ebook; basis of Vincenzo Natali's 2019 Netflix film about siblings trapped in a Kansas field.
In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies (En el tiempo de las mariposas) is a 1994 historical novel by Julia Alvarez about the Mirabal sisters, who opposed Trujillo's dictatorship.
In the Trenches of Stalingrad
In the Trenches of Stalingrad (В окопах Сталинграда) is a 1946 novella by Viktor Nekrasov recounting the defense of Stalingrad through a front-line officer's eyes; it won a Stalin Prize.
In the Wine Shop
"In the Wine Shop" (在酒楼上) is a 1924 short story by Lu Xun, published in Fiction Monthly and collected in Wandering, in which a narrator meets his disillusioned former friend Lü Weifu.
In the Woods
In the Woods is Tana French's 2007 debut novel, first of the Dublin Murder Squad series, about detective Adam Ryan investigating a child murder at the site of a childhood disappearance he cannot remember; it won the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, and Macavity best-first-novel awards.
In Verona
In Verona (W Weronie) is a short poem by the Polish poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written in the late 1840s and later included in Vade-mecum.
Incidente em Antares
Incidente em Antares is a 1971 novel by the Brazilian writer Érico Veríssimo, set in the fictional town of Antares in Rio Grande do Sul.
Incidents Around the House
Incidents Around the House is Josh Malerman's 2024 supernatural horror novel (Del Rey), narrated by eight-year-old Bela, whose family is stalked by the closet entity Other Mommy; adapted as the film Other Mommy with Jessica Chastain.
Incipit
Incipit: Latin "here begins"; the first words of a medieval manuscript, from the formula Incipit liber, extended in criticism to a work's opening lines; counterpart the explicit; studied by genetic criticism and Aragon.
Incunable
Incunable (plural incunabula, Latin for cradle): a European book, pamphlet, or broadside printed with movable metal type before 1501, beginning with Gutenberg's 42-line Bible of about 1455; around 1,100 printers identified, roughly 10 million books produced.
Incurable
Incurable is a book-length poem by the Mexican poet David Huerta, first published in 1987 by Ediciones Era and widely regarded as the central work of his career.
Indaba, My Children
Indaba, My Children is a 1964 collection of African folk tales, myths, and legends by the South African Zulu storyteller Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, first published in Johannesburg.
Independent People
Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk) is a 1934–1935 novel by Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, following a crofter whose obsession with independence costs those around him dearly.
Inder Sabha
Inder Sabha (اندر سبھا, "The Court of Indra") is an Urdu verse musical play by the Lucknow poet Amanat, first staged in 1853 and generally treated as the first complete Urdu drama.
Index (publishing)
Index (publishing): the back-of-the-book alphabetical list of topics with page locators, defined by ISO 999; distinct from a concordance; printed indexes appeared in the 1460s; governed by standards such as ANSI/NISO Z39.4-2021 and adapted to e-books via embedded, hyperlinked indexes.
Indian Boyhood
Indian Boyhood is the 1902 first book of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), recounting his Dakota childhood until he was taken into white society at age fifteen.
Indian English diaspora novel
The Indian English diaspora novel is fiction in English by authors of Indian origin or descent living outside India, exploring migration, displacement, and belonging to the homeland.
Indian English poetry
Indian English poetry, once called Indo-Anglian poetry, is poetry in English by Indian poets, developing since the early nineteenth century; Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das are major figures.
Indian English postmodern fiction
Indian English postmodern fiction is the body of novels and short fiction in English by Indian authors from roughly 1980, begun by Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981).
Indian English short story
The Indian English short story is short prose fiction written in English by Indian authors, shaped largely in the 20th century by writers like R.K. Narayan.
Indonesische Overpeinzingen
Indonesische Overpeinzingen ("Indonesian Contemplations") is a 1945 Dutch-language book of autobiographical reflections by Indonesian nationalist leader Sutan Sjahrir, published under the pseudonym Sjahrazad by De Bezige Bij in Amsterdam.
Indravati
Indravati (इंद्रावती) is a Sufi premakhyan, a love-narrative poem in Awadhi composed by Noor Muhammad in 1744, telling of Rajkunwar and Indravati as an allegory of the soul's longing for divine light.
Indulekha
Indulekha (ഇന്ദുലേഖ) is an 1889 Malayalam social novel by O. Chandu Menon, generally considered the first major Malayalam novel, portraying Nair society, matriliny, and romance in late nineteenth-century Kerala.
Inferno (Brown novel)
Inferno (2013) is Dan Brown's fourth Robert Langdon thriller, set in Florence, Venice, and Istanbul, in which Langdon decodes Dante-based clues to stop a virus tied to an overpopulation plot; it sold over one million copies in its first North American week.