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Mahaviracharita
Mahaviracharita (Mahāvīracarita) is a seven-act Sanskrit drama by the 8th-century playwright Bhavabhuti, based on the early life of Rama and commonly regarded as his first play.
Mahbarot Immanuel
The Mahbarot, also known as Maḥbarot Immanuel, is a satirical collection of Hebrew verse and rhymed prose by Immanuel of Rome, containing the first sonnets written outside Italian.
Mahbub al-Qulub
Mahbub al-Qulub ("Beloved of Hearts") is the title of several unrelated Persian, Chagatai Turkish, and Arabic works, including treatises by Alisher Navoi and Barkhordar Farahi.
Mahjar literature
Mahjar literature (الأدب المهجري) is Arabic literature written by emigrants, chiefly from Syria and Lebanon, who settled in the Americas from the late 19th century onward.
Mahoromatic (まほろまてぃっく)
Mahoromatic (まほろまてぃっく) is a Japanese manga by Bunjūrō Nakayama and Bow Ditama, serialized in Comic Gum 1998–2004 in 8 volumes, about android Mahoro serving as maid to Suguru; adapted by Gainax and Shaft into two anime series (2001, 2002) and a 2009 special.
Maid (book)
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive is Stephanie Land's 2019 Hachette memoir of single-mother poverty and housecleaning in Washington state, a New York Times bestseller adapted into Netflix's 2021 series Maid.
Maisha Yangu na Baada ya Miaka Hamsini
Maisha Yangu na Baada ya Miaka Hamsini ("My Life and After Fifty Years") is a two-part Swahili autobiography by Tanzanian poet Shaaban Robert, first published together in 1966.
Maisie Dobbs series
Maisie Dobbs series: 18 historical mystery novels by Jacqueline Winspear (2003-2024) about a WWI nurse turned psychologist-investigator in interwar London; Agatha, Macavity, and Alex award winner, over one million copies sold, HiddenLight TV option 2021.
Máj
Máj (Czech for "May") is a lyrical-epic poem by Czech Romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha, self-published in 1836, telling a tragic story of love and betrayal and widely seen as a landmark of Czech poetry.
Majalis al-Nafais
Majalis al-Nafais is a biographical dictionary of poets written in Chagatai Turkic by Alisher Navai in Herat in the 1490s, covering 459 Persian and Chagatai poets of the 15th century.
Majha Pravas
Majha Pravas (माझा प्रवास) is a Marathi travelogue by the priest Vishnubhat Godse, an eyewitness account of the 1857 Indian rebellion, first published in 1907.
Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! (真剣で私に恋しなさい!)
Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! (Majikoi!, Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!) is a 2009 Japanese adult visual novel by Minato Soft, scenario by Takahiro, set at Kawakami Academy; English JAST USA release 2020, 12-episode 2011 anime by Lerche.
Majma' al-Amthal
Majma' al-Amthal (مجمع الأمثال, "The Gathering of Proverbs") is a large Arabic proverb collection compiled by al-Maydani, who died in 1124, containing over six thousand proverbs with meanings and stories.
Majma' al-Fusaha
Majma' al-Fusaha (مجمعالفصحاء, "Assembly of the Eloquent") is a Persian biographical anthology of poets compiled by Riza Quli Khan Hidayat, completed in 1871, recording 867 poets and their verses.
Major Barbara
Major Barbara is a 1905 social satire by George Bernard Shaw in which a Salvation Army major confronts her munitions-manufacturer father over tainted charity money.
Major Major Major Major
Major Major Major Major is a character in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22, squadron commander of Yossarian in World War II; named Major Major Major by his father's joke, he was promoted to major by an IBM machine on his first day in the Army.
Majutsu o Kiwamete Tabi ni Deta Tensei Elf, Moteamashita Jumyō de Ikeru Densetsu to Naru
Japanese web novel series by Monshō Sakakibara (魔術を極めて旅に出た転生エルフ、持て余した寿命で生ける伝説となる) on Kakuyomu; man reincarnated as elf Liese with a 1,000-year lifespan; one Grast Novels volume, kanco manga, Studio Palette anime announced for 2027.
Makaan
Makaan (मकान, "House") is a 1976 Hindi novel by Shrilal Shukla, the satirist best known for Raag Darbari, following a sitar player's search for a house.
Makber
Makber (مقبر, "the grave") is a long 1885 elegiac poem by the Ottoman poet Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, mourning his wife Fatma Hanım, who died in Beirut.
Makhzan al-Asrar
Makhzan al-Asrar (مخزن الاسرار, "Treasury of Secrets") is a didactic and mystical Persian masnavi by Nizami Ganjavi, written around 1176 and the first poem of his Khamsa.
Makina-san's a Love Bot?!
Makina-san's a Love Bot?! (かくして！マキナさん!!, Kakushite! Makina-san!!) is a full-color comedy-romance manga by Yoshimi Sato, serialized in Futabasha's Monthly Action then Web Comic Action, with a 2025 BloomZ anime and Seven Seas Ghost Ship English release.
Making History (novel)
Making History is a 1996 alternate history novel by Stephen Fry in which two men use a time machine to prevent Adolf Hitler's birth, with unforeseen consequences.
Malaipadukadam
Malaipadukadam (மலைபடுகடாம்), also known as Kuttarattruppadai, is a 583-line Sangam-era Tamil poem and the tenth of the ten Pattuppattu idylls, praising the hill chieftain Nannan and describing mountain life and music.
Malatimadhava
Malatimadhava (मालतीमाधवम्, also romanized Mālatīmādhava) is a ten-act Sanskrit social drama by the 8th-century poet Bhavabhuti, telling how the lovers Malati and Madhava are united after many perils.
Malavikagnimitram
Malavikagnimitram (मालविकाग्निमित्रम्) is a five-act Sanskrit love play by Kalidasa, probably his earliest work, telling of the Shunga king Agnimitra's love for the dancer Malavika.
Malayalam literature
Malayalam literature (മലയാള സാഹിത്യം) is literature in Malayalam, Kerala's language: Pattu and Manipravalam traditions, Ezhuthachan, the 1889 novel Indulekha, modernism, Arabi-Malayalam, and classical-language status.
Malayalam novel
The Malayalam novel (ഇന്ദുലേഖ) is the tradition of novel-length fiction in Malayalam, the language of Kerala, beginning with O. Chandumenon's Indulekha in 1889 and later spanning social realism, modernism, and Arabi-Malayalam writing.
Malayavilasam
Malayavilasam (മലയവിലാസം) is a Malayalam poem composed by A. R. Rajaraja Varma (1863–1918), a poet and grammarian of Trivandrum, and is credited with marking the beginning of modern Malayalam poetry.
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Malazan Book of the Fallen: ten-volume epic fantasy series (1999–2011) by Canadian author Steven Erikson, from Gardens of the Moon to The Crippled God, co-created with Ian Esslemont from a GURPS roleplaying campaign.
Malcolm (Macbeth)
Malcolm is Duncan's elder son in Shakespeare's Macbeth, based on the historical Malcolm III Canmore. He flees to England, tests Macduff, leads the Birnam Wood army, and becomes king after Macduff kills Macbeth.