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Inferno (Dante)
Inferno, first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, is a 34-canto terza rima descent through nine circles of Hell guided by Virgil, written about 1307 to 1321 in exile, first fully translated into English by Rogers in 1782 and endlessly adapted in art and film.
Inferno Verde
Inferno Verde (Green Hell) is a 1908 short story collection by Brazilian writer and engineer Alberto Rangel, his debut, portraying the Amazon during the rubber boom.
Infinite Crisis
Infinite Crisis is DC Comics' 7-issue 2005-2006 crossover miniseries by Geoff Johns, sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths, in which Multiverse survivors return, ending the single-Earth era and restoring a limited Multiverse.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest (1996), David Foster Wallace's second novel, is a 1,079-page work with 388 endnotes set in 2014, centered on addiction, entertainment, tennis prodigy Hal Incandenza, and addict Don Gately, famous for its 'cultural splash' reception.
Infinite Stratos
Infinite Stratos (インフィニット・ストラトス) is a Japanese light novel series by Izuru Yumizuru about powered exoskeletons only women can pilot, adapted into a 2011 anime by 8-Bit, manga, and games.
Infinity (comic book)
Infinity (2013) is a six-issue Marvel crossover by Jonathan Hickman and Jim Cheung, written interwoven with Avengers and New Avengers, featuring the Builder war in space and Thanos's Black Order invasion of Earth.
Infinity Gems
Infinity Gems (MCU: Infinity Stones) are six Marvel Comics artifacts governing time, space, power, reality, mind, and soul; first appearing as the Soul Gem in Marvel Premiere #1 (1972), fully defined by Jim Starlin in 1977 and 1990, and famous from The Infinity Gauntlet (1991).
Infinity Watch
Infinity Watch is a Marvel Comics team formed by Adam Warlock after The Infinity Gauntlet to guard the six Infinity Gems separately; it debuted in Warlock and the Infinity Watch (1992), was reformed in 2018, and returned with a new Stone Bearer roster in the 2024-2025 Derek Landy series.
Ingoku Danchi (淫獄団地)
Ingoku Danchi (淫獄団地) is a Japanese manga by story writer Sakusei Kenkyūjo and artist Yui Jōyama, published by KADOKAWA; manager Yoshida battles Libido Cross-wearing perverted married women, topped Nico Nico Manga's 2021 official ranking, and a 2026 TV anime titled Ingoku Danchi followed.
Ingrid Jonker Prize
The Ingrid Jonker Prize is a South African literary award for a first volume of poetry, awarded annually and alternating between Afrikaans and English debut collections.
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon's 2009 hardboiled detective novel (Penguin Press, 369 pp.), set in 1970 Gordita Beach, Los Angeles, follows Doc Sportello through conspiracies involving the Golden Fang; adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014.
Inheritance (Paolini novel)
Inheritance (2011) by Christopher Paolini is the fourth and final Inheritance Cycle novel, published by Knopf on November 8, 2011; it sold 489,500 copies on day one and concludes Eragon's battle against Galbatorix.
Inhin Hathiyaron Se
Inhin Hathiyaron Se (इन्हीं हथियारों से, "With These Very Weapons") is a 2003 Hindi novel by Amarkant depicting the Quit India Movement of 1942 in Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh.
Inhumans
The Inhumans are a Marvel Comics superhuman species created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four #45 (1965); Kree-engineered humans powered by Terrigen Mists, ruled by Black Bolt's royal family from Attilan, adapted in a poorly received 2017 ABC series.
Inigo Montoya
Inigo Montoya (Íñigo Montoya), fictional Spanish swordsman in William Goldman's 1973 novel The Princess Bride and Rob Reiner's 1987 film, played by Mandy Patinkin; avenges his father Domingo, killed by the six-fingered Count Rugen.
Inkheart
Inkheart, or Tintenherz, is a 2003 children's fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, first in a series about a bookbinder whose reading aloud brings book characters to life.
Inkondlo kaZulu
Inkondlo kaZulu (Zulu Poems) is a 1935 collection of poems by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, the first book of poems ever published in isiZulu and the first title in the Bantu Treasury Series.
Inner Story of Emperor Wu of Han
The Inner Story of Emperor Wu of Han (Han Wudi neizhuan) is a Chinese Daoist tale in which the Queen Mother of the West visits Emperor Wu.
Inscribed at the South of the Village
Inscribed at the South of the Village (Ti Du Cheng Nan Zhuang) is a seven-character quatrain by Tang poet Cui Hu, source of the idiom "a face like peach blossom."
Insha na Mashairi
Insha na Mashairi (Essays and Poems) is a 1959 book by the Tanzanian Swahili writer Shaaban Robert, first published in Tanga, mixing short essays with poems on moral themes.
Insila kaShaka
Insila kaShaka is a 1930 historical novel by John Langalibalele Dube, widely reported to be the first novel in isiZulu, telling of Jeqe, King Shaka's body servant.
Insomnia (novel)
Insomnia (novel): Stephen King's 1994 Viking Press horror novel about widower Ralph Roberts in Derry, Maine, whose sleeplessness reveals auras, the bald doctors, and Dark Tower figures like the Crimson King and Patrick Danville.
Inspector Lestrade
Inspector Lestrade (G. Lestrade) is Arthur Conan Doyle's recurring Scotland Yard detective in the Sherlock Holmes canon, debuting in A Study in Scarlet (1887), appearing in thirteen stories as Holmes's tenacious but unimaginative foil.
Inspector Lewis
Inspector Lewis is a British ITV detective drama (2006–2015), a spin-off of Inspector Morse, starring Kevin Whately as DI Robert Lewis and Laurence Fox as DS James Hathaway, solving 42 murder mysteries in Oxford.
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse: fictional DCI Endeavour Morse, Colin Dexter's Oxford detective from 13 novels (1975–1999) and the ITV series (1987–2000, John Thaw), with spin-offs Inspector Lewis and Endeavour.
Insularismo
Insularismo is a 1934 book of essays on Puerto Rican national identity by Antonio S. Pedreira, described as the most influential study of Puerto Rican culture.
Insurgent (novel)
Insurgent is Veronica Roth's 2012 young adult dystopian novel, the second book of the Divergent trilogy set in post-apocalyptic Chicago, following Tris through faction civil war, survivor's guilt, and the fence revelation.
Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors
Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors is a 1990 autobiography by the Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor, recounting his childhood on the White Earth Reservation and military service in Japan.
Intermezzo (novel)
Intermezzo (2024) is Sally Rooney's fourth novel, about Dublin brothers Peter, a 32-year-old barrister, and Ivan, a 22-year-old chess player, grieving their father while navigating age-gap romances; published by Faber & Faber.
International Booker Prize
The International Booker Prize, formerly the Man Booker International Prize, is a British annual literary award for a work of fiction translated into English, worth £100,000 split equally between author and translator.