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Narasimha Satakamu
Narasimha Satakamu (నరసింహ శతకము) is an 18th-century Telugu devotional sataka of about 100 verses addressed to the god Narasimha, composed by the poet Kakutthsa Seshappa Kavi of Dharmapuri in Telangana.
Narcissu (ナルキッソス)
Narcissu (ナルキッソス) is a 2005 freeware kinetic novel by Tomo Kataoka and Stage-nana about two terminally ill patients who flee a hospice; its minimalist, choice-free design, insani's first al|together English translation, and over one million downloads distinguish it from branching visual novels.
Narcissu: Side 2nd
Narcissu: Side 2nd (ナルキッソス -SIDE 2nd-) is Tomo Kataoka's 2007 kinetic novel prequel to Narcissu by STAGE NANA, set seven years earlier around hospice patient Himeko Shinohara and a 15-year-old Setsumi; free official English release, Steam 2014.
Narendra Dai
Narendra Dai (नरेन्द्र दाइ, "Brother Narendra") is a Nepali psychological novella by B.P. Koirala, published in 1970, centered on a triangular relationship between a man, his wife, and his lover.
Narnia (world)
Narnia is the fantasy world of C.S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia books (1950-1956), created and ruled by Aslan the lion, entered via wardrobe and other portals, with over 120 million copies sold and a 2027 film adaptation.
Narrative
Narrative: a representation of connected events told by someone to someone; its study is narratology (narrative theory), coined by Todorov in 1969, covering story versus discourse, focalization, and postclassical approaches.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir by Frederick Douglass recounting his life in bondage in Maryland and his escape to freedom.
Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry, also called verse narrative, is poetry that tells a story, one of the oldest poetic forms. Its main subtypes are epic and ballad, with courtly romance a medieval development.
Narratology
Narratology is the theory of narrative structures, coined by Tzvetan Todorov as a science of narrative. Key concepts: story versus discourse, Genette's focalization; classical structuralist phase and postclassical branches including cognitive, feminist, and unnatural narratology.
Narrinai
Narrinai (நற்றிணை), also called Naṟṟiṇai Nāṉūṟu, is a classical Tamil anthology of 400 love poems, one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) of Sangam literature, conventionally dated to roughly 300 BCE to 300 CE.
Nashtanir
Nashtanir (নষ্টনীড়, "The Broken Nest") is a 1901 Bengali short story by Rabindranath Tagore about a lonely wife, best known as the basis of Satyajit Ray's film Charulata.
Nasihatü's-Selatin
Nasihatü's-Selatin (نصيحة السلاطين, "Counsel for Sultans") is an Ottoman political advice book written in 1581 by the historian Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî and presented to Sultan Murad III.
Nasrallah Munshi's Kalila wa Dimna
Nasrallah Munshi's Kalila wa Dimna (Kalileh o Demneh) is Nasr-Allah Munshi's 1142 Persian adaptation of the Arabic fables, the founding work of Persian artistic prose.
Natasha Rostova
Natasha Rostova (Наташа Ростова), central heroine of Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869), a composite of Tatyana Bers and Tolstoy's wife Sonya, defined by vitality rather than intellect and transformed into a maternal figure in the epilogue.
Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl)
Nate Archibald (Nathaniel Fitzwilliam Van der Bilt Archibald) is a Gossip Girl character from Cecily von Ziegesar's novels and the CW series, played by Chace Crawford; the Upper East Side golden boy torn between Blair and Serena who later runs The Spectator.
Nathan the Wise
Nathan the Wise (Nathan der Weise) is a 1779 dramatic poem by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing about a Jewish merchant, a Muslim sultan, and a Christian Templar.
Nathpanthi literature
Nathpanthi literature (नाथ साहित्य, Nath Sahitya) is the body of verse and prose attributed to the Nath yogis of medieval India, standing at the head of Hindi literature's earliest period.
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are annual American literary prizes established in 1950. They are open only to US-based authors and are judged by fellow practitioners.
National Book Award for Fiction
The National Book Award for Fiction, given by the National Book Foundation since 1950, honors the best US-published fiction annually; first won by Nelson Algren, judged by five-member panels, with a $10,000 prize.
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is an annual prize given by the National Book Foundation to the best book for young readers published in the United States.
National Lampoon (magazine)
National Lampoon (magazine) was an American monthly humor magazine published in New York from 1970 to 1998, founded by Doug Kenney, Henry Beard, and Robert Hoffman.
Nationalist poetry
Nationalist poetry, known in Arabic as al-shiʿr al-waṭanī (الشعر الوطني), is poetry expressing love of homeland; in Arabic literature it spans patriotic and pan-Arab verse.
Native Life in South Africa
Native Life in South Africa is a 1916 book of political reportage by Sol Plaatje, protesting the Natives' Land Act and the displacement of black farming families.
Native Son
Native Son is Richard Wright's 1940 novel about Bigger Thomas, a poor Black man on Chicago's South Side who kills a white woman; a Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, frequently banned, adapted by Welles on Broadway and by Chenal, and restored uncut in 1991.
Native-soil literature
Native-soil literature (鄉土文學, xiangtu wenxue) is a Chinese-language literary category devoted to one's home region and its people, prominent in mainland fiction of the 1920s to 1940s.
Natty Bumppo
Natty Bumppo (Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Leatherstocking) is James Fenimore Cooper's frontiersman hero of the five Leatherstocking Tales (1823–1841), companion of Chingachgook, partially modeled on Daniel Boone, and widely cited as the first quintessentially American literary hero.
Naturalism (literature)
Naturalism, or literary naturalism, is a late 19th- and early 20th-century literary movement founded by Émile Zola in France, portraying characters determined by heredity, environment, and social circumstance.
Nature (essay)
Nature (1836), Ralph Waldo Emerson's anonymous first book published by James Munroe, Boston, is the manifesto of American Transcendentalism, arguing for an original relation to the universe through nature as symbol of spirit.
Nau Tarz-e-Murassa
Nau Tarz-e-Murassa (نو طرز مرصع) is an Urdu prose romance by Mir Muhammad Husain Ata Khan Tahsin, begun in 1768, rendering the Persian Qissa-e-Chahar Darvesh and preceding Bagh-o-Bahar.
Nausea (novel)
Nausea (La Nausée), Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel (Gallimard, 1938), is a diary-form existentialist novel in which Antoine Roquentin, in Bouville, confronts the contingency of existence; originally titled Melancholia after Dürer's engraving.