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Mudramanjusha
Mudramanjusha (ಮುದ್ರಾಮಂಜೂಷ, "The Seal Casket") is an 1823 Kannada prose work by Kempu Narayana, patronized by Krishnaraja Wodeyar III of Mysore, and generally treated as the first modern novel in Kannada literature.
Muerte sin fin
Muerte sin fin ("Death without End") is a 1939 philosophical poem of 775 verses by Mexican poet José Gorostiza, regarded as a pinnacle of twentieth-century poetry in Spanish.
Muerte y transfiguración de Martín Fierro
Muerte y transfiguración de Martín Fierro is a 1948 essay by the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada that reads José Hernández's gaucho poem Martín Fierro as an interpretation of Argentine history.
Mufaddaliyat
The Mufaddaliyat (المفضليات, also called al-Ikhtiyarat) is an anthology of 126 ancient Arabic poems compiled by al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi around 762, prized for its reliable transmission and pure Bedouin language.
Muggle
Muggle is J.K. Rowling's coinage from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) for a person with no magical powers; added to the OED in 2003, it now also informally means someone lacking a skill, with No-Maj as its American equivalent.
Mujh Se Pehle Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang
"Mujh Se Pehle Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang" (مجھ سے پہلی سی محبت مری محبوب نہ مانگ) is a famous Urdu nazm by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, published in Naqsh-e-Faryadi in 1941.
Mujina Into the Deep
Mujina Into the Deep (MUJINA INTO THE DEEP) is Inio Asano's seinen action science fiction manga, serialized in Big Comic Superior from 2023, about rights-less assassins in a dystopian near future, drawn over Unreal Engine 5 cityscapes.
Mujmal al-Tawarikh
Mujmal al-Tawarikh, in full Mujmal al-tawarikh wa'l-qisas, is an anonymous Persian universal chronicle compiled in Hamadan in 1126, covering world history from the Creation with particular attention to the kings of Iran.
Mukundamala
Mukundamala (मुकुन्दमाला, Mukunda-mālā-stotra) is a short Sanskrit devotional hymn to Krishna as Mukunda, composed by King Kulasekhara, a Chera ruler of Kerala, before the 10th century.
Mulberry and Peach
Mulberry and Peach (Sangqing yu Taohong, 桑青與桃紅) is a Chinese-language novel by Hualing Nieh about a woman's migration across China, Taiwan, and the United States.
Mullaippattu
Mullaippattu (முல்லைப்பாட்டு) is a classical Tamil Sangam poem, the fifth of the Ten Idylls, composed by Nappūthanār on a wife's patience during her husband's war.
Multiverse (DC Comics)
DC Multiverse is the fictional collection of parallel universes used by DC Comics to organize over 80 years of superhero stories, featuring infinite Earth frequencies and realms for cosmic beings.
Mumu (Муму) (short story)
Mumu (Муму) is Ivan Turgenev's 1852 short story, published 1854, about the deaf-mute serf Gerasim who drowns his dog Mumu on his mistress's order; based on real events in his mother's house, censored, and a school classic.
Mumyōzōshi
Mumyōzōshi (無名草子, "The Nameless Book") is a Japanese work of tale criticism from the early Kamakura period, around 1200, often cited as the first work of Japanese literary criticism.
Muna Madan
Muna Madan (मुनामदन) is a short epic poem in Nepali by Laxmi Prasad Devkota, first published in 1936 and regarded as Nepali literature's most famous work.
Munchkin
Munchkins are the fictional people of Munchkin Country, eastern Oz, created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900); blue-clad, freed by Dorothy, later played by the Singer Midgets in the 1939 MGM film.
Munich – The Edge of War
Munich – The Edge of War is a 2021 Netflix historical drama directed by Christian Schwochow, adapted by Ben Power from Robert Harris's 2017 novel Munich. It follows two fictional Oxford friends, British and German diplomats, at the September 1938 Munich Conference, starring George MacKay, Jeremy Irons, and Jannis Niewöhner.
Münşeat
Münşeat (منشآت) is the Ottoman and classical Islamic literary genre of collected official and private prose writings, especially letters, with the rules for composing them.
Murambi, the Book of Bones
Murambi, the Book of Bones (Murambi, le livre des ossements) is a 2000 novel by the Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop about the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Murciélago (ムルシエラゴ) (manga)
Murciélago (ムルシエラゴ) is a seinen manga by Yoshimurakana serialized in Young Gangan since 2013, about death-row mass murderer Kuroko Koumori serving as a state executioner; 29 volumes, Yen Press English edition, anime in January 2027.
Murder Is Easy
Murder Is Easy, also published as Easy to Kill, is a 1939 Agatha Christie detective novel in which village deaths disguised as accidents form a multiple murder plot.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (US serial title Murder in the Calais Coach) is Agatha Christie's 1934 Hercule Poirot novel: a snowbound train, a tycoon stabbed twelve times, twelve passengers tied to the Armstrong case, inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Muriel at Metropolitan
Muriel at Metropolitan, published abroad as Between Two Worlds, is a 1975 debut novel by Miriam Tlali, narrated by a black woman working in a white-owned Johannesburg shop.
Murphy
Murphy is a 1938 novel by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, his first published novel, about a work-shy Dubliner in London seeking a private mental retreat.
Murtagh (novel)
Murtagh is a 2023 epic fantasy novel by Christopher Paolini, set in the World of Eragon one year after Inheritance, following Eragon's half brother Murtagh and his dragon Thorn.
Musaddas-e-Hali
Musaddas-e-Hali (مسدسِ حالی), fully Musaddas-e Madd-o Jazr-e Islām, is an Urdu poem by Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali, published in 1879, that recalls Islam's glorious past and mourns its decline in India.
Musée des Beaux Arts
"Musée des Beaux Arts" is a 21-line free-verse poem by W. H. Auden, written in Brussels in December 1938 and published in 1940 in Another Time.
Mush wa Gurba
Mush wa Gurba (موش و گربه, Qiṣṣah-i Mūsh va Gurbah), also known as Mūshnāmah, is a Persian mock-epic satire about a tyrannical cat tormenting virtuous mice.
Mushoku Tensei
Mushoku Tensei (無職転生, Jobless Reincarnation) is Rifujin na Magonote's isekai web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō (2012–2015), a 26-volume MF Books light novel about Rudeus Greyrat, with manga and a two-season Studio Bind anime and 14.85 million copies in circulation.
Musibat-nama
Musibat-nama (مصیبتنامه, "Book of Affliction") is a Persian mystical mathnawi by the Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar of Nishapur, in which a wayfarer seeks relief through forty encounters, and it is Attar's longest poem.