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Malebolge
Malebolge is Dante's invented name for the eighth circle of Hell in the Inferno: ten concentric ditches (bolge) of iron-colored stone where ten classes of fraudulent sinners are punished, cantos XVIII-XXX.
Malebolgia
Malebolgia: demon lord of the Eighth Circle of Hell, original main antagonist of Todd McFarlane's Spawn (first appearance Spawn #1, May 1992), who made Al Simmons a Hellspawn, was slain in Spawn #100, and returned in 2026.
Malegalalli Madumagalu
Malegalalli Madumagalu (ಮಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮದುಮಗಳು, "The Bride in the Hills") is a 1967 Kannada novel by Kuvempu, widely regarded as his magnum opus and set in 19th-century Malnad, Karnataka.
Malela Jiv
Malela Jiv (મળેલા જીવ) is a landmark 1941 Gujarati novella by Pannalal Patel telling the love story of Kanji and Jivi, whose marriage is blocked by caste difference.
Malemort
Malemort is a 1975 French-language novel by Martinican writer Édouard Glissant, his second after La Lézarde, depicting a people economically and culturally uprooted on their own soil.
Malgudi Days (short story collection)
Malgudi Days is a 1943 short story collection by R. K. Narayan, the book that made him famous, portraying Indian life in his imaginary city of Malgudi.
Malin Kundang
Malin Kundang is a folktale from West Sumatra, Indonesia, about a wealthy merchant who denies his aged mother and is turned to stone with his ship.
Malina
Malina is a 1971 novel by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, her prose debut and only completed novel, published by Suhrkamp as the opening volume of her planned Todesarten cycle.
Malke'
Malke'a (Ge'ez: መልክእ) is a genre of Ge'ez religious praise poetry in which each stanza greets one part of a holy figure's body, from head to toe.
Malory Towers
Malory Towers is Enid Blyton's six-book girls' boarding school series (1946–1951) set in Cornwall, following Darrell Rivers; extended by Pamela Cox's six 2009 sequels, a 2019 anthology, an Emma Rice musical, and the 2020 CBBC television adaptation.
Maltiempo
Maltiempo is a 1972 poetry collection by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published in Mexico City, and includes the poem Doña Luz, dedicated to his mother.
Mame (musical)
Mame is a 1966 Jerry Herman Broadway musical comedy with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on Patrick Dennis's novel Auntie Mame. Ran 1,508 performances; won Tonys for Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, and Frankie Michaels; Lucille Ball starred in the 1974 film. Distinct from the MAME arcade emulator.
Man Alone
Man Alone is a 1939 realist novel by New Zealand writer John Mulgan, following an English ex-soldier through Depression-era New Zealand; its title names a recurring figure in the country's fiction.
Man of Earth
Man of Earth is a 1989 anthology of 330 Filipino poems written in English from 1905 to the mid-1950s, edited by Gémino H. Abad and Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz.
Man'yōshū (万葉集)
Man'yōshū (万葉集) is Japan's oldest extant waka anthology: 20 volumes, about 4,500 poems spanning 629–759, written in man'yōgana, compiled in stages with Ōtomo no Yakamochi's certain involvement, and later a model for the Kokinshū.
Manache Shlok
Manache Shlok (मनाचे श्लोक), also known as Manobodh, is a set of 205 Marathi devotional verses in which 17th-century saint-poet Samarth Ramdas counsels his own mind toward ethical conduct and devotion to Rama.
Manalezhuthu
Manalezhuthu (മണലെഴുത്ത്, "The Writing on the Sand") is a Malayalam poetry collection by the Kerala poet and activist Sugathakumari, selected for the 2013 Saraswati Samman.
Manasamangal
Manasamangal (মনসামঙ্গল), also known as Padmapuran, is a medieval Bengali narrative poem celebrating the snake goddess Manasa and her conquest of the merchant Chand Sadagar.
Manasi
Manasi (মানসী, "The Mind's Creation") is an 1890 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, written between 1887 and 1890 and generally regarded as the first book of his mature verse.
Manchester Odyssey
The Manchester Odyssey is a 3rd-century CE parchment codex, the earliest surviving copy of Homer's Odyssey in book form, preserving Books 12-15 and 18-24. Held at the John Rylands Library since its 1901 purchase from the 26th Earl of Crawford.
Mandalay (poem)
Mandalay, also "The Road to Mandalay," is Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem in Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), voiced by a cockney soldier longing for Burma, famous for its refrain and disputed geography.
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies fiction
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies fiction (鴛鴦蝴蝶派, yuanyang hudie pai), also called the Saturday school, was a school of popular urban fiction flourishing in Shanghai from the late Qing through the early Republican era.
Mandodari
Mandodari (मन्दोदरी), also Mandodari of Lanka, is Ravana's chief wife and queen in Valmiki's Ramayana, mother of Meghanada, famed for her lament over Ravana and counted among the Panchakanya.
Mandrake the Magician
Mandrake the Magician: Lee Falk's American adventure comic strip, first published by King Features on June 11, 1934, about a stage magician with real hypnotic powers, often called comics' first superhero; drawn by Phil Davis, later Fred Fredericks.
Mangaian oral literature
Mangaian oral literature is the songs, narratives, genealogies, and speeches passed down by word of mouth on Mangaia, the southernmost of the main Cook Islands, by experts called 'are kōrero.
Manhunt (novel)
Manhunt (2022) is Gretchen Felker-Martin's debut post-apocalyptic horror novel from Tor Nightfire, following trans women Beth and Fran harvesting hormones from feral infected men amid TERF militias; a Vulture #1 book of 2022.
Manhwa (만화)
Manhwa (만화) is Korean comics, sharing the characters 漫畵 with manga and manhua. From 1909 political cartoons and the 1924 serial 멍텅구리 to today's full-color vertical-scroll webtoons adapted into K-dramas.
Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee is Jerry Spinelli's 1990 Little, Brown children's novel about orphan Jeffrey Magee in the racially divided town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania; it won the 1991 Newbery Medal and sold 3.3 million copies by 2015.
Manifest Manners
Manifest Manners is a 1994 book of literary and cultural criticism by the Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor, in which he introduced the influential concept of survivance.
Manjaveyil Maranangal
Manjaveyil Maranangal (മഞ്ഞവെയില് മരണങ്ങള്; Yellow Lights of Death) is a 2011 Malayalam investigative thriller by Benyamin, published by DC Books and set mainly on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.