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Jarndyce and Jarndyce
Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is the fictional endless Court of Chancery inheritance suit in Dickens's Bleak House (1852–53), often linked to the Jennens Case and Thellusson v Woodford, ending when costs devour the estate.
Jasoosi Duniya
Jasoosi Duniya (جاسوسی دنیا, "The World of Espionage") is an Urdu detective series by Ibn-e-Safi, starring Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed, credited with popularizing Urdu detective fiction.
Jatakamala
The Jatakamala, also titled Bodhisattvavadanamala, is a Sanskrit collection of 34 jataka tales of the Buddha's previous lives, composed by Aryashura in the 4th century or earlier.
Jatayu (जटायु)
Jatayu (जटायु), the vulture king of the Ramayana, son of Aruna and brother of Sampati, friend of Dasharatha, who fought Ravana alone during Sita's abduction and died in Rama's lap after his wings were cut.
Javert
Javert is the police inspector antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables, who pursues Jean Valjean from the Toulon bagne to Paris until mercy breaks his moral system and drives him to suicide.
Javid Nama
Javid Nama (جاوید نامہ), meaning "The Song of Eternity," is a Persian poem by Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1932, describing a spiritual journey guided by Rumi.
Jaws (novel)
Jaws is Peter Benchley's 1974 thriller novel about a great white shark attacking the Long Island resort town of Amity; a 20-million-copy bestseller whose affair and mafia subplots were cut from Spielberg's 1975 film.
Jay Gatsby
Jay Gatsby, born James Gatz, is the title character of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby: a bootlegger-made millionaire of West Egg who throws lavish parties to win back Daisy Buchanan and dies in his pool.
Jayadrath Vadh
Jayadrath Vadh (जयद्रथ-वध) is a 1910 Hindi khandkavya, or short epic, by Maithili Sharan Gupt that retells Abhimanyu's death in the chakravyuh and Arjuna's slaying of Jayadrath.
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ)
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ) is the Mahabharata king of Sindhu and Sauvira, a Kaurava ally whose Rudra-granted stand caused Abhimanyu's death and whose slaying by Arjuna before sunset is told in the Jayadratha-vadha Parva.
Jean de Florette
Jean de Florette is a 1986 French drama directed by Claude Berri, adapted from Marcel Pagnol's novel L'Eau des collines and starring Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, and Daniel Auteuil.
Jean Giraud
Jean Giraud (1938–2012), French comics artist signing as Gir and Mœbius; creator of Blueberry, Arzach, Le Garage hermétique, and L'Incal, co-founder of Métal Hurlant, and designer for Alien, Tron, and The Fifth Element.
Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean, hero of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (1862), a convict jailed for stealing bread, reborn as mayor Monsieur Madeleine, hunted by Javert, Cosette's savior.
Jeeves
Jeeves (Reginald Jeeves) is P.G. Wodehouse's fictional valet to Bertie Wooster, first appearing in "Extricating Young Gussie" (1915); 35 stories and 11 novels, first name revealed in Much Obliged, Jeeves, source of the generic term for a butler.
Jejak Langkah
Jejak Langkah (Footsteps) is a 1985 historical novel by the Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, third of the Buru Quartet, following the Javanese journalist Minke as he organizes anticolonial resistance.
Jekyll & Hyde (musical)
Jekyll & Hyde is a 1990 gothic musical by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse, conceived with Steve Cuden, based on Stevenson's novella. It ran 1,543 Broadway performances from 1997, earned four Tony nominations, and spawned the standard "This Is the Moment."
Jellicle cats
Jellicle cats, also called the Jellicles, are T. S. Eliot's fictional cat tribe from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), named from 'dear little cats', who hold the annual Jellicle Ball in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats (1981).
Jemangmaega
Jemangmaega (제망매가, "Song for the Dead Younger Sister") is a 10-line hyangga composed by the Silla monk Wolmyeong in the 8th century, mourning his dead younger sister.
Jenny Humphrey
Jennifer "Jenny" Tallulah Humphrey is a Gossip Girl character, Dan Humphrey's sister, played by Taylor Momsen in 72 episodes; Brooklyn girl who becomes Queen of Constance, later revealed as a Gossip Girl poster.
Jeonggamnok
Jeonggamnok (정감록) is a Korean prophecy book, first recorded in 1739, foretelling the fall of the Joseon dynasty and its replacement by a new Jeong dynasty.
Jerilderie Letter
The Jerilderie Letter is a 56-page manifesto of about 8,000 words dictated by the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly in February 1879, justifying his gang's crimes and demanding justice for his family.
Jerusalem Delivered
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) is an epic poem in twenty cantos by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, on the First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem's Lot
Jerusalem's Lot ('Salem's Lot) is Stephen King's fictional haunted Maine town, setting of the 1975 vampire novel, the 1850 epistolary prequel story in Night Shift, "One for the Road", Chapelwaite, and Dark Tower links.
Jesse Stone (character)
Jesse Stone is Robert B. Parker's fictional police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, an ex-LAPD alcoholic homicide detective introduced in Night Passage (1997), continued by four later authors and played by Tom Selleck in nine TV movies.
Jessie Anderson (The Walking Dead)
Jessie Anderson is a Walking Dead character: Pete Anderson's wife, mother of Ron and Sam, and Rick Grimes' short-lived love interest; comic debut #72 (May 2010), killed in #83; TV version played by Alexandra Breckenridge, devoured by walkers in "No Way Out".
Jesus, the Son of Man
Jesus, the Son of Man (يسوع ابن الإنسان) is a 1928 book by Kahlil Gibran presenting Jesus's life through the imagined testimonies of 77 men and women.
Jhara Palak
Jhara Palak (Fallen Feathers) is the first poetry collection of Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, published in Kolkata in 1927, gathering 35 poems from his apprenticeship years.
Jharna
Jharna (झरना, "Waterfall") is a 1918 poetry collection by the Hindi writer Jaishankar Prasad, regarded as the founding work of Chhayavad, the romantic movement of modern Hindi poetry.
Ji Chengtian Si Ye You
Ji Chengtian Si Ye You (记承天寺夜游) is a short prose piece by Song writer Su Shi, recording a moonlit stroll with Zhang Huaimin in 1083.
Jialing Ci
Jialing Ci is the collected ci lyrics of early Qing poet Chen Weisong (1625–1682), the largest surviving personal ci collection of the early Qing at 1,629 lyrics.