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Mankuthimmana Kagga
Mankuthimmana Kagga (ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮನ ಕಗ್ಗ) is a 1943 collection of 945 standalone four-line Kannada philosophical verses by D. V. Gundappa, often called the Kannada Bhagavad Gita.
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut (Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut) is a 1731 French novel by the abbé Prévost, inserted in his Mémoires d'un homme de qualité, revised definitively in 1753 and adapted by Massenet and Puccini.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's third published novel (May 1814, three volumes), follows Fanny Price, a poor relation at the Bertram estate supported by Antigua plantation wealth; Austen's most controversial novel, debated over slavery and hard to film.
Mantıku't-Tayr
Mantıku't-Tayr (منطق الطير, "The Speech of the Birds") is a Sufi mathnawi by the Persian poet Attar, finished in 1187, in which birds journey through seven valleys to the Simurgh.
Manucharitam
Manucharitam (Telugu: మనుచరిత్రము), also called Svarochisha Manu Sambhavamu, is a sixteenth-century Telugu court epic by Allasani Peddana, chief poet of Krishnadevaraya, and is regarded as the first prabandha in Telugu literature.
Manuel de Pedrolo
Manuel de Pedrolo was a prolific Catalan novelist, playwright, and translator who introduced crime fiction to the region. His best-selling work is the science-fiction novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen.
Manuscript
Manuscript: a handwritten document, and in publishing an author's pre-print text. Covers manuscript culture, genetic criticism, submission and evaluation, and the Voynich manuscript mis-binding study.
Manush
Manush (মানুষ, "Human") is a Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam, national poet of Bangladesh, that names service to humanity as the highest religion and is taught in Bangladeshi high schools.
Manushyanu Oru Aamukham
Manushyanu Oru Aamukham (മനുഷ്യന് ഒരു ആമുഖം, "A Preface to Man") is a 2010 Malayalam novel by Subhash Chandran, following three generations of a family in a Kerala village.
Manvini Bhavai
Manvini Bhavai (માનવીની ભવાઈ) is a 1947 Gujarati regional novel by Pannalal Patel depicting farmers in northern Gujarat during the Chhappaniya famine of 1900, and it earned Patel the Jnanpith Award.
Many Waters
Many Waters is Madeleine L'Engle's 1986 fourth Time Quintet novel, in which the ordinary Murry twins Sandy and Dennys are accidentally transported to Noah's antediluvian world of seraphim, nephilim, and unicorns before the Flood.
Māori children's literature
Māori children's literature is literature for children in Aotearoa New Zealand in te reo Māori, bilingual, or English with Māori content, tied to language revitalisation since the 1970s.
Māori oral literature
Māori oral literature is the body of stories, songs, chants, genealogies, proverbs, and oratory that Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, transmitted orally across generations before and after writing.
Māori poetry in English
Māori poetry in English is the body of poetry written in English by Māori, New Zealand's indigenous people, running from Apirana Ngata's 1892 poem to Hone Tuwhare's landmark 1964 collection.
Maoshi Zhengyi
Maoshi Zhengyi (毛詩正義), also called the Kong shu, is a 40-juan subcommentary on the Classic of Poetry completed in 642 under Kong Yingda in the early Tang dynasty.
Maoyu
Maoyu (Maoyuu Maou Yuusha, まおゆう魔王勇者) is a Japanese macroeconomic fantasy by Mamare Touno, originally posted on 2ch, published as five Enterbrain light novels from 2010, adapted into five manga and a 2013 twelve-episode anime by studio Arms.
Mapuche oral poetry
Mapuche oral poetry is the sung and spoken verbal art of the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina, passed down in Mapudungun through genres such as ül, epew, and nütram.
Maqamat al-Hamadhani
Maqamat al-Hamadhani (مقامات الهمذاني) is a collection of rhymed-prose narratives by Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani, who died in 398 AH and created the maqama as an Arabic literary genre.
Mar Absoluto
Mar Absoluto e Outros Poemas is a 1945 poetry collection by the Brazilian writer Cecília Meireles, published by Editora Globo and considered the apex of her lyric poetry.
Mara Jade
Mara Jade, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars character from Heir to the Empire (1991), is the Emperor's Hand assassin ordered to kill Luke Skywalker who later became his wife and a Jedi; she remains Legends-only, excluded from canon.
Marali Mannige
Marali Mannige (ಮರಳಿ ಮಣ್ಣಿಗೆ, "Back to the Soil") is a 1941 Kannada novel by K. Shivarama Karanth following three generations of a poor Brahmin family.
Marathi detective fiction
Marathi detective fiction (मराठी गुप्तहेरकथा) is the body of detective and mystery stories in the Marathi language, popular from the mid-twentieth century onward, led by Baburao Arnalkar.
Marathi historical novel
The Marathi historical novel (ऐतिहासिक कादंबरी) is Marathi fiction that reconstructs a historical period, usually the Maratha past, by blending documented history with imagined characters; the genre began in the 1860s.
Marathi novel
The Marathi novel (कादंबरी) is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Marathi, the language of Maharashtra in western India, which began in the mid-nineteenth century.
Marathi travelogue
A Marathi travelogue (प्रवासवर्णन, pravāsavarṇana) is Marathi prose writing that recounts the author's travel experiences; the first is Vishnubhat Godse's Majha Pravas, published in 1907.
Marathi women's writing
Marathi women's writing (मराठी स्त्री लेखन) is literature by women in Marathi, Maharashtra's language, spanning medieval devotional verse, Tarabai Shinde's 1882 polemic, and post-1960 feminist writing.
Marble Hall Murders
Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz's 2025 novel, is the third Susan Ryeland/Atticus Pünd mystery: editor Susan edits Eliot Crace's continuation Pünd's Last Case and finds real murder hidden in the manuscript; adapted for BBC and MASTERPIECE PBS.
March Hare
The March hare is the European brown hare during its March breeding season, proverbially "mad as a March hare" for boxing and leaping behavior, and the name of the erratic tea-party character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Marcha para Oeste
Marcha para Oeste is a 1940 essay by Brazilian modernist poet Cassiano Ricardo that reads the São Paulo bandeiras as the founding force of Brazilian society and politics.
Märchen Crown
Märchen Crown (メルヘンクラウン, Meruhen Kuraun) is a dark fantasy manga by Aka Akasaka, Aoi Kujira, and Azychika, serialized in Weekly Young Jump since March 2025; it reworks Rapunzel into a dark fairy tale with simulpub on Manga Plus.