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Nahush
Nahush (नहुष) is a 1940 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, retelling the Mahabharata story of a man who becomes king of heaven and falls.
Naishadhacharita
Naishadhacharita (नैषधीयचरितम्, Naiṣadhīyacarita), also called Naishadhakavya, is a 12th-century Sanskrit court epic by Śrīharṣa, one of the five great mahākāvya poems, retelling the story of Nala and Damayantī.
Naishadhiyacharita
Naishadhiyacharita, also called Naishadha-charita, is a 12th-century Sanskrit epic poem by Śrīharṣa that retells the story of Nala and Damayantī from the Mahābhārata in 22 cantos.
Naivedya
Naivedya (নৈবেদ্য, also transliterated Naibedya, meaning "Offerings") is a 1901 collection of 100 Bengali devotional poems by Rabindranath Tagore, 15 of which reappear in his English Gitanjali.
Naked (book)
Naked (book) by David Sedaris: 1997 autobiographical essay collection, Little, Brown, following Barrel Fever. Essays include A Plague of Tics, Ashes, and the nudist-camp title essay; his first New York Times bestseller.
Naked Came the Stranger
Naked Came the Stranger, by "Penelope Ashe" (Mike McGrady and about two dozen Newsday journalists), a deliberately bad 1969 hoax sex novel that became a bestseller and sold more after its television exposure.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is a 1959 novel by William S. Burroughs, a central work of the Beat Generation, known for its drug themes and obscenity trials.
Nakshi Kanthar Math
Nakshi Kanthar Math (নকশী কাঁথার মাঠ, "The Field of the Embroidered Quilt") is a 1929 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the tragic love of villagers Rupai and Saju.
Nakula (नकुल)
Nakula (नकुल), one of the five Pandava twins with Sahadeva in the Mahabharata, son of Madri and the Asvins; a horseman famed for beauty and swordsmanship, serving as Granthika in Virata's court.
Nalachampu
Nalachampu (नलचम्पू), also known as Damayantīkathā or Damayantīcampū, is a Sanskrit champu mixing prose and verse, written by Trivikrama Bhaṭṭa in the early tenth century.
Nalacharitam
Nalacharitam (നളചരിതം) is a four-part Kathakali play text written in the late 17th or early 18th century by Unnayi Warrier, dramatizing the Nala-Damayanti story from the Mahabharata.
Naladiyar
Naladiyar (நாலடியார்), also called Naladi Nanuru, is a Tamil ethical anthology of 400 four-line quatrains in venba meter, attributed to Jain ascetics and ranked next to the Tirukkural among moral texts.
Nalakhyan
Nalakhyan (નળાખ્યાન) is the title of several medieval Gujarati narrative poems telling the Mahabharata story of King Nala and Damayanti, the most famous composed by Premanand in 1686.
Nalan Ci
Nalan Ci (纳兰词) is the collected ci poetry of Nalan Xingde, a Manchu aristocrat of the early Qing dynasty, praised for its sincerity and mournful love poems.
Nalini
Nalini, or Oru Sneham, is a 1911 Malayalam khandakavya, or short narrative poem, by Kumaran Asan, depicting a love that transcends physical desire toward the union of two souls.
Nalukettu
Naalukettu (നാലുകെട്ട്) is a 1958 Malayalam novel by M.T. Vasudevan Nair that follows Appunni, a boy expelled from his matrilineal Nair ancestral home, set in Kudallur, Kerala.
Namdevachi Gatha
Namdevachi Gatha (नामदेव गाथा), also called the Namdev Gatha, is the collected Marathi devotional verse of the Varkari sant Namdev of Maharashtra, a foundational text of Marathi sant literature.
Namghosa
Namghosa (নামঘোষা), also known as Hazari Ghosa, is the principal devotional verse text of Assamese Vaishnavism. Composed by Madhavadeva between 1568 and 1596, its 1,001 verses praise Krishna and teach chanting God's name.
Namus
Namus (Նամուս) is an 1885 novel by the Armenian writer Alexander Shirvanzade, set in Shamakhi, about lovers destroyed by a provincial town's code of honor.
Nana (novel)
Nana (1880) is the ninth novel of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, following Anna Coupeau, daughter of Gervaise, from the Théâtre des Variétés to courtesan power over Paris, ending with the Empire's collapse and her smallpox death.
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is a fictional teenage detective created by Edward Stratemeyer in 1930, credited to the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, with more than 200 million books sold.
Nancy Drew (2019 TV series)
Nancy Drew (2019 TV series): CW supernatural mystery drama; Kennedy McMann as Nancy in Horseshoe Bay, Maine; four seasons, 2019 to 2023, produced by CBS Television Studios and Fake Empire, differing from the books with supernatural plots and a diverse cast.
Nandanar Charithram
Nandanar Charithram (நந்தனார் சரித்திரம்) is a 19th-century Tamil musical drama by Gopalakrishna Bharati telling the life of the Dalit Shaiva saint Nandanar, who longed to see Shiva at Chidambaram.
Nänie
Nänie (also Nanie) is an elegiac poem by Friedrich Schiller, published around 1800, mourning the transience of beauty and best known through Brahms's choral setting of 1881.
Nanshe Congke
Nanshe Congke (南社叢刻, Nanshe Congkan) was the official organ of the Nanshe literary society, publishing members' poetry, prose, and ci lyrics in 22 collections from 1910 to 1923.
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (南総里見八犬伝) is a long Japanese romance novel by Kyokutei Bakin, published in 106 booklets between 1814 and 1842 and following the Eight Dog Warriors of the Satomi clan.
Napi cycle
The Napi cycle is the body of interlinked Blackfoot oral narratives centered on Napi (Naapi), also called Old Man, a creator and trickster who shaped the world.
Napis
Napis ("Inscription") is the fourth poetry volume by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, published in Warsaw in 1969 and closing the first phase of his career.
Napoleon (Animal Farm)
Napoleon is the Berkshire boar and main antagonist of Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), the allegorical stand-in for Joseph Stalin who seizes power with trained dogs, propaganda from Squealer, and rewritten commandments.
Naqsh-e-Faryadi
Naqsh-e-Faryadi (نقشِ فریادی), the first poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, was published in 1941 and blends romantic lyricism with early political consciousness.