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Mouride devotional poetry
Mouride devotional poetry, called xasida in Wolof, is the religious verse of Senegal's Muridiyya Sufi order, composed chiefly in Arabic and Arabic-script Wolof, founded by Shaykh Amadu Bamba (1853–1927).
Moving the Centre
Moving the Centre is a 1993 collection of essays by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o arguing that cultural power must move from the West to many centers.
Mowgli
Mowgli, Rudyard Kipling's wolf-raised boy of The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book, first written in "Mowgli's Brothers" (1892); sources include Sleeman's wolf-children pamphlet and Haggard; he influenced Tarzan and starred in Disney's 1967 and 2016 films and Serkis's 2018 Netflix movie.
Moy Sand and Gravel
Moy Sand and Gravel is a 2002 poetry collection by the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Poetry Prize.
Moyuer: More Rain, More Wind
Moyuer: More Rain, More Wind (摸鱼儿) is a ci lyric by Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, a political lament written in 1179 at a farewell banquet.
Moyuer: Tomb of the Wild Geese
Moyuer: Tomb of the Wild Geese (摸鱼儿·雁丘词) is a ci poem by Jin dynasty poet Yuan Haowen about a goose that died for its mate.
Mozart and Salieri
Mozart and Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери) is an 1830 one-act verse tragedy by Alexander Pushkin, part of his Little Tragedies, in which a jealous Salieri poisons Mozart.
Mpreg
Mpreg, short for male pregnancy, is a fan fiction trope in which a male character becomes pregnant, most often in paranormal and science fiction settings and tied to M/M romance.
Mr Ma and Son
Mr Ma and Son (二马, The Two Mas) is a satirical novel by Lao She, serialized in 1929, following a Chinese father and son running an antique shop in London.
Mr. Darcy
Mr. Darcy (Fitzwilliam Darcy) is the proud, wealthy master of Pemberley in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813), worth £10,000 a year, who marries Elizabeth Bennet after reforming; icon of countless adaptations from Olivier to Firth to Netflix's 2026 series.
Mr. Mani
Mr. Mani (Hebrew: מר מאני) is a 1990 Hebrew novel by Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua that follows a Sephardi Jewish family across five generations through five one-sided conversations.
Mr. Men
Mr. Men is a British children's book series created by Roger Hargreaves in 1971, starting with Mr. Tickle, with the Little Miss series added in 1981; over 250 million books sold, continued by Adam Hargreaves.
Mr. Mercedes
Mr. Mercedes is Stephen King's 2014 Edgar-winning crime novel, first of the Bill Hodges Trilogy, in which retired detective Bill Hodges hunts Brady Hartfield, the Mercedes Killer; it introduced Holly Gibney and was adapted as a 2017–2019 TV series.
Mr. Tumnus
Mr. Tumnus is the faun who greets Lucy Pevensie in C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950); a reformed servant of the White Witch, arrested for treason, played on screen by James McAvoy (2005) and others.
Mrigavati
Mrigavati, also romanized Mirigavati ("The Magic Doe"), is an Awadhi Sufi romance by the poet Qutban, composed around 1503 and counted among the four major Hindavi Sufi romances of North India.
Mrityunjay
Mrityunjay (मृत्युंजय) is a 1967 Marathi novel by Shivaji Sawant, his first, that retells the life of Karna through nine first-person books and won the Maharashtra State Award.
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway is a 1925 Virginia Woolf novel, set on a single June day in 1923, following hostess Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith through London.
Mrs. Coulter
Mrs. Coulter (Marisa Coulter) is the chief antagonist of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: Lyra's mother, head of the General Oblation Board, owner of an unnamed golden monkey dæmon, played by Nicole Kidman (2007 film) and Ruth Wilson (BBC/HBO).
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien's 1971 Newbery Medal-winning children's science-fiction novel published by Atheneum, about a widowed field mouse aided by hyper-intelligent lab rats; adapted by Don Bluth as The Secret of NIMH (1982).
Mtsyri
Mtsyri (Мцыри) is a romantic narrative poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, telling of a Georgian boy captured by Russian forces who escapes his monastery.
Mu'allaqa of Amr ibn Kulthum
The Mu'allaqa of Amr ibn Kulthum is one of the seven pre-Islamic Arabic odes called the Mu'allaqat, a boast in praise of the tribe of Taghlib.
Mu'allaqa of Antarah
The Mu'allaqa of Antarah (معلاقة عنترة) is a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabic ode, the "Suspended Ode" of the sixth-century warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad of the tribe of 'Abs.
Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays
The Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays (معلقة امرئ القيس) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode attributed to Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi (died around 544 CE) that opens "Qifa nabki" and is counted among the seven celebrated Mu'allaqat.
Mu'allaqa of Labid
The Mu'allaqa of Labid (معلقة لبيد) is a pre-Islamic Arabic qaṣīdah by the poet Labid ibn Rabi'ah, one of the celebrated anthology of odes known as the Mu'allaqāt.
Mu'allaqa of Tarafa
The Mu'allaqa of Tarafa (معلقة طرفة) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode by Tarafa ibn al-Abd, a sixth-century poet killed by the Lakhmid king Amr ibn Hind, and among the celebrated Mu'allaqat.
Mu'allaqa of Zuhayr
The Mu'allaqa of Zuhayr (معلقة زهير بن أبي سلمى) is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode by Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma commemorating the 585 peace between 'Abs and Dhubyan.
Mưa nguồn
Mưa nguồn, meaning "Source rain", is the first and best-known poetry collection of the Vietnamese poet Bùi Giáng, gathering 139 poems and first published in Saigon in the early 1960s.
Mùa xuân nho nhỏ
"Mùa xuân nho nhỏ" ("A small spring") is the last poem of the Vietnamese poet Thanh Hải, written on his sickbed in Huế in November 1980.
Mudal Tiruvandadi
Mudal Tiruvandadi (முதல் திருவந்தாதி) is a Tamil devotional poem of 100 verses by Poigai Alvar, the first work of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, praising Vishnu.
Mudie's Select Library
Mudie's Select Library (1842–1937), Charles Edward Mudie's London circulating library, dominated Victorian lending with one-guinea subscriptions and three-volume novels at 31s 6d, peaking near 50,000 subscribers before killing the triple-decker in 1894.