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Memoirs of Pancho Villa
Memoirs of Pancho Villa (Memorias de Pancho Villa) is a 1951 book by Martín Luis Guzmán that presents itself as the autobiography of Mexican revolutionary general Pancho Villa.
Memorial de Aires
Memorial de Aires is the final novel by Machado de Assis. It is a diary detailing Rio de Janeiro society during the Brazilian Empire's final years.
Memoriales de Motolinía
The Memoriales de Motolinía is a sixteenth-century work attributed to Franciscan missionary Toribio de Benavente, called Motolinía, recording the evangelization of New Spain and indigenous customs and calendar.
Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias
Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias is an 1854 novel by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, first published anonymously in serial form and regarded as the first urban novel of Brazilian literature.
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, translated as The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, is an 1881 novel by Machado de Assis narrated by a dead man.
Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar
Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar (Sentimental Memoirs of João Miramar) is a 1924 novel by Oswald de Andrade, a founding work of Brazilian modernist fiction.
Memory for Forgetfulness
Memory for Forgetfulness (Dhākira lil-Nisyān) is a prose memoir by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish about the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut, blending narrative, poetry, and essay.
Memory hole
Memory hole: term from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a wall slot feeding documents to incinerators in the Ministry of Truth; now figurative for deliberate erasure of inconvenient records.
Memory in the Flesh
Memory in the Flesh (Dhākirat al-Jasad) is a 1993 novel by Ahlam Mosteghanemi about Khaled, an Algerian painter wounded in the liberation war; it won the 1997 Naguib Mahfouz Prize.
Men and Women
Men and Women is a collection of fifty-one poems by Robert Browning, published in two volumes in 1855 and regarded as a watershed of his career.
Men in Love (novel)
Men in Love is a 2025 novel by Irvine Welsh and a direct sequel to Trainspotting, following Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie in the late 1980s.
Men in the Sun
Men in the Sun (رجال في الشمس, Rijāl fī al-shams) is a 1963 novella by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani about three refugees who die in a water tank.
Men of Maize
Men of Maize (Hombres de maíz) is a 1949 novel by the Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias, dramatizing the conflict between Maya communities and commercial maize growers.
Mending Wall
"Mending Wall" is a 1914 narrative poem by Robert Frost about two New England farmers who repair their shared stone wall each spring, famous for "Good fences make good neighbors."
Mengchuang Ci
Collected Ci of Wu Wenying (《梦窗词》) is the surviving corpus of about 340 song lyrics by Wu Wenying, a mid-1200s Southern Song poet known as Mengchuang.
Mengliang Lu
Mengliang Lu (梦粱录, Records of a Millet Dream) is a 1274 miscellany by Wu Zimu describing the city, customs, and commerce of Lin'an, the Southern Song capital.
Menino de Engenho
Menino de Engenho is the 1932 first novel of the Brazilian writer José Lins do Rego, recounting an orphaned boy's childhood on his grandfather's sugar plantation in Paraíba.
Mercutio
Mercutio, kinsman of Prince Escalus and Romeo's witty friend in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595-1596), delivers the Queen Mab speech, is killed by Tybalt in Act 3, and barely exists in Brooke's 1562 source poem.
Merdiven
"Merdiven" (Turkish for "Staircase") is a poem by Ahmet Hâşim, published in his 1926 collection Piyale, describing a slow climb at sunset read as an image of life from youth to death.
Mere Rashk-e-Qamar (میرا رشکِ قمر)
Mere Rashk-e-Qamar (میرا رشکِ قمر), "Envy of the Moon", is an Urdu ghazal by Fana Buland Shehri, performed as a qawwali by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in the 1980s and revived by the 2013 remix and 2017 Baadshaho film version.
Meri Teri Uski Baat
Meri Teri Uski Baat (मेरी तेरी उसकी बात) is a 1974 Hindi novel by Yashpal, set against the Quit India Movement and awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1976.
Merong Mahawangsa
Merong Mahawangsa is the legendary founder of the kingdom of Kedah, recounted in the classical Malay text Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa, also known as the Kedah Annals.
Meşa'irü'ş-Şu'ara
Meşa'irü'ş-Şu'ara (Meşâ'irü'ş-Şu'arâ, مشاعر الشعراء) is a biographical dictionary of poets (tezkire) written in Ottoman Turkish by Âşık Çelebi, completed in 1568-69 and presented to Sultan Selim II.
Messenger (novel)
Messenger (2004) is Lois Lowry's third Giver Quartet novel, a YA dystopia in which Matty, a message runner with healing powers, sacrifices himself to heal Village and Forest; also known as book three of The Giver series.
Metafiction
Metafiction is self-reflexive fiction that draws attention to its own fictionality, coined as a term in 1970 by Gass and Scholes; includes Hutcheon's historiographic metafiction, which combines self-reflexivity with claims to historical events and personages.
Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses, a 15-book Latin epic of about 12,000 hexameter lines, retells some 250 transformation myths from Chaos to Augustus and became the 'Bible for artists' of Western painting and sculpture.
Métis literature
Métis literature is the writing and oral tradition of the Métis, an Indigenous people of Canada, spanning over two centuries in English and French, from Louis Riel to Maria Campbell.
Metro (franchise)
Metro is a post-apocalyptic franchise from Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro 2033 novels (Метро 2033) and the 4A Games shooters Metro 2033, Last Light, Exodus, and the announced Metro 2039.
Metro 2033 (novel)
Metro 2033 (Метро 2033) is Dmitry Glukhovsky's 2005 post-apocalyptic novel, first posted free online in 2002, about Artyom's journey across the Moscow Metro after nuclear war; it spawned the Metro 2034/2035 sequels, the Universe of Metro 2033 tie-in series, and the 4A Games video games.
Metsahaf Mestir
Metsahaf Mestir (መጽሐፈ ምሥጢር, Book of Mystery) is a Ge'ez antiheretical theological work by Abba Giyorgis of Sägla, completed in 1424 and considered the most important original work of Ethiopian Christian theology.