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Jadis et naguère
Jadis et naguère is a poetry collection by the French poet Paul Verlaine, published in Paris by Léon Vanier in 1884 and containing "Art poétique".
Jagamohana Ramayana
The Jagamohana Ramayana (ଜଗମୋହନ ରାମାୟଣ), also known as the Dandi Ramayana after its meter, is an Odia retelling of the Ramayana composed by Balarama Dasa around AD 1500, a foundational work of Odia literature.
Jagua Nana
Jagua Nana is a 1961 novel by the Nigerian writer Cyprian Ekwensi, first published in London, following an aging Lagos prostitute in the turbulent years before Nigerian independence in 1960.
Jahangirnama
The Jahangirnama, also known as the Tuzuk-i Jahangiri, is the Persian autobiographical memoir of Mughal emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605–1627), written as yearly annals recording court events and his natural observations.
Jai Somnath
Jai Somnath (Gujarati: જય સોમનાથ), also rendered Jaya Somanath, is a 1937 Gujarati historical novel by K. M. Munshi set around Mahmud of Ghazni's plunder of the Somnath temple.
Jaime Lannister
Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer, is a George R. R. Martin character in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; he killed Aerys II while a Kingsguard knight and later loses his sword hand.
Jaimini Bharata
Jaimini Bharata (ಜೈಮಿನಿ ಭಾರತ) is a Kannada epic poem by the poet Lakshmisha, written around 1500, that retells Yudhishthira's horse sacrifice and was recited in villages through the Gamaka tradition.
Jalaleddin
Jalaleddin (Armenian: Ջալալէդդին) is a short historical novel by Raffi (Hakob Melik-Hakobian), serialized in 1878, depicting a Kurdish chieftain's assault on Armenian and Assyrian villages during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.
Jamaica Inn (novel)
Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier's Gothic suspense novel of Cornish smugglers, published by Victor Gollancz in January 1936; heroine Mary Yellan confronts wreckers Joss Merlyn and the vicar of Altarnun on Bodmin Moor.
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्)
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्, Jāmbavān), also Jambavanta, is the bear king of Hindu epic, minister of Sugriva in the Ramayana, awakener of Hanuman's powers, and later opponent of Krishna over the Syamantaka jewel.
James (novel)
James (2024) is Percival Everett's twenty-fourth novel, a retelling of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn narrated by the enslaved Jim, who calls himself James, code-switches between dialect and standard English, and secretly writes his own story; winner of the 2024 National Book Award and 2025 Pulitzer Prize.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach is Roald Dahl's first successful children's novel (US 1961, UK 1967), about orphan James Henry Trotter sailing a giant peach with giant insects to New York; illustrated first by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, filmed by Henry Selick in 1996, and revised by Puffin in 2023.
James Patterson bibliography
James Patterson bibliography: roughly 400 titles since The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), including Alex Cross, Women's Murder Club, Private, and Maximum Ride series, plus co-authored books with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Viola Davis, and Michael Crichton.
James S. A. Corey
James S. A. Corey is the joint pen name of science fiction writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, best known for The Expanse series and its successful television adaptation.
Jamie Fraser (character)
Jamie Fraser (James Alexander Malcolm McKenzie Fraser) is the fictional Highland hero of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels (1991 onward) and the Starz series, played by Sam Heughan; not a real person, inspired by Jacobite accounts, Doctor Who's Jamie McCrimmon, and Clan Fraser of Lovat.
Jamila
Jamila (Джамиля) is a 1958 novella by the Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov about a young married woman who leaves her husband for the man she loves.
Jan Fethke
Jan Fethke (Jean Forge, 1903-1980), German-Polish screenwriter, film director and Esperanto novelist; wrote Abismoj and Mr. Tot aĉetas mil okulojn and co-wrote Fritz Lang's Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse.
Jan Nisar Akhtar
Jan Nisar Akhtar (جاں نثار اختر), born Syed Jaan Nisar Husain Rizvi (1914–1976), was a Gwalior-born Urdu poet of the Progressive Writers' Movement and Hindi film lyricist who wrote about 151 songs, won the 1976 Sahitya Akademi Award for Khaak-e-Dil, and fathered Javed Akhtar.
Janani
Janani (Bengali: জননী, "Mother") is a 1935 psychological Bengali novel by Manik Bandopadhyay, his first published novel, following the young housewife Shyama's journey to motherhood.
Jane Austen in popular culture
Jane Austen in popular culture covers her novels' afterlife in film, TV, fan fiction, tourism, and fandom: the 1995–96 six-adaptation boom, Janeites, JASNA, Bridgerton's Regency revival, and the 2026 adaptation wave.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre: 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë, published as Currer Bell; first-person Bildungsroman of an orphan governess and Mr. Rochester, famous for its reception mystery, Gothic elements, and adaptations.
Jane Porter (Tarzan)
Jane Porter, also known as Lady Jane Greystoke, is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Tarzan's American or English wife.
Jangar
Jangar, also known as Djangar, is a heroic oral epic of the Kalmyk and Oirat Mongols, centered on the warrior-king Jangar and the idealized land of Bumba.
Jangloos
Jangloos (جانگلوس) is a three-volume Urdu novel by the Pakistani writer Shaukat Siddiqui, published between 1978 and 1987, following two escaped prisoners in rural Punjab.
Janmadine
Janmadine (জন্মদিনে, "On the Birthday") is a Bengali poetry collection of 29 poems by Rabindranath Tagore, written in 1941 and the last published in his lifetime.
Japan Sinks
Japan Sinks (日本沈没, Nihon chinbotsu) is Sakyo Komatsu's 1973 disaster SF novel in which tectonic shifts sink the Japanese archipelago. Sold 3.85 million copies, won the 1974 Mystery Writers of Japan Award, and spawned films, TV dramas, manga, and the 2020 Netflix anime.
Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself
Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself (あいまいな日本の私) is the Nobel lecture Kenzaburō Ōe delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 1994, two days before receiving the prize, inverting Yasunari Kawabata's 1968 lecture title.
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (美しい日本の私) is the Nobel memorial lecture Yasunari Kawabata delivered in Stockholm in December 1968 as the first Japanese literature laureate.
Japanese literature
Japanese literature (日本文学) spans nearly 1,500 years, from the Man'yoshu and The Tale of Genji through Meiji-era Western-influenced fiction to contemporary authors, defined by court origins, tanka poetry, and heavy translation exchange.
Jarasandha (जरासंध)
Jarasandha (जरासंध), king of Magadha in the Mahabharata, son of Brihadratha, joined at birth from two halves by the rakshasi Jara. Captor of 86 kings for a Shiva sacrifice, enemy of Krishna, slain by Bhima at Girivraja before the Rajasuya.