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Nausicaa
Nausicaa (Ναυσικάα), Phaeacian princess of Scheria in Odyssey Book 6, daughter of Alcinous and Arete, finds the shipwrecked Odysseus; later contested by Butler's authoress theory and echoed in Joyce's Ulysses.
Nawadir
Nawadir (النوادر; singular nadira) is an Arabic term meaning rare or singular things, and a classical adab genre of short, witty anecdotes; the word also titles linguistic, legal, and hadith works.
Naya Afsana
Jadid afsana (جدید افسانہ), the modern Urdu short story, is the modernist phase of Urdu short fiction that turned from social realism toward symbolism in the 1960s.
Naya Shairi
Naya Shairi (نئی شاعری, "new poetry") is an Urdu term for twentieth-century Urdu verse that broke with classical conventions in favor of symbolism and free verse.
Nayi Kahani
Nayi Kahani (नई कहानी, "New Story") was a Hindi literary movement from about 1950 that turned the short story toward the inner life of the urban middle class.
Nazgûl
The Nazgûl (Black Speech "Ringwraiths"), also the Nine Riders or Black Riders, are Sauron's nine wraith-servants in Tolkien's Middle-earth, once mortal kings enslaved by Rings of Power; only the Witch-king and Khamûl are named.
Nazm
Nazm (نظم) is the principal non-ghazal genre of Urdu poetry, a poem on a single central theme, unlike the couplet-based ghazal; the modern form arose in the late 19th century.
Neapolitan Novels
The Neapolitan Novels are Elena Ferrante's four-volume series (My Brilliant Friend through The Story of the Lost Child, 2011–2014) tracing Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo's lifelong friendship in Naples, sold in millions of copies and adapted by HBO.
Necronomicon
The Necronomicon (Al Azif) is H.P. Lovecraft's fictional grimoire, attributed to the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, first appearing in "The Hound" (1922); hoax editions like the 1977 Simon Necronomicon fueled beliefs it is real.
Nectar in a Sieve
Nectar in a Sieve is a 1954 novel by the Indian writer Kamala Markandaya, telling of Rukmani, a tenant farmer's wife whose rural life is undone by poverty and industrialization.
Necuvintele
Necuvintele, Romanian for "The Non-Words," is a 1969 poetry volume by Nichita Stănescu, built around invented "non-words" naming things directly and winning the 1969 Writers' Union of Romania Prize.
Ned Stark
Eddard "Ned" Stark is the Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Sean Bean; his honor-driven Handship ends in his execution in "Baelor".
Nederlandsche Historien
Nederlandsche Historien (Dutch Histories) is a 27-book chronicle of the Dutch Revolt by P.C. Hooft, published in 1642 and completed in 1654.
Nedjma
Nedjma (نجمة, "star") is a 1956 novel in French by the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine, often called the founding novel of Algerian literature and a turning point in Maghrebi fiction.
Nedunalvadai
Nedunalvadai (நெடுநல்வாடை), meaning "the long, good north wind," is a classical Tamil Sangam poem of 188 lines by Nakkīrar, the seventh of the Pattuppattu, praising the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ.
Needful Things
Needful Things (1991) is Stephen King's horror novel, subtitled The Last Castle Rock Story, in which shopkeeper Leland Gaunt sells Castle Rock, Maine residents their desires for a prank that spirals into town-wide violence; adapted as a 1993 film with Max von Sydow and Ed Harris.
Neel Kusum
Neel Kusum (नील कुसुम) is a collection of Hindi poems by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, who called it the invisible beginning of his "new poetry" phase.
Neem ka Ped
Neem ka Ped (नीम का पेड़) is a short Hindi political novel by Rahi Masoom Raza, narrated by a neem tree watching a north Indian village across two generations.
Negan
Negan is the Saviors' leader in The Walking Dead comics (debut issue #100), wielding the bat Lucille, named for his wife; played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan on AMC, later in Dead City.
Nehanda
Nehanda is a 1993 novel by Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, her first, reimagining the spirit medium Charwe Nyakasikana, leader of the 1896–97 rising against settlers.
Neil Gaiman bibliography
The Neil Gaiman bibliography is the published body of work by Neil Gaiman (born 1960), an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theater, and films.
Neko Majin
Neko Majin (ネコマジン) is Akira Toriyama's series of 8 gag one-shots, 1999–2005 in Weekly and Monthly Shonen Jump, collected in one 2005 volume; its Neko Majin Z chapters self-parody Dragon Ball with Goku, Vegeta, and Majin Buu.
Nekopara
Nekopara (ネコぱら) is a Japanese catgirl visual novel series by NEKO WORKs and illustrator Sayori, first released December 29, 2014; over 7 million copies sold, with manga, OVA, TV anime, and the 2026 mobile game Sekai Connect.
Nel magma
Nel magma is a poetry collection by the Italian poet Mario Luzi, first published in Milan in 1963 and seen as the decisive turning point of his career.
Nellie Oleson
Nellie Oleson, also Nellie Oleson Dalton on television, is the fictional rival of Laura Ingalls in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, a composite of Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters, and Stella Gilbert, played by Alison Arngrim in the 1974 series and Willa Dunn in the Netflix reboot.
Nemean Odes
The Nemean Odes (Νεμεόνικοι) are a book of eleven victory odes by the Greek poet Pindar, honoring athletes who won at the Nemean Games and forming one of his four surviving books of victory odes.
Nemesis Games
Nemesis Games (2015) is the fifth Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), published by Orbit. The Rocinante crew splits into separate POV storylines as asteroids strike Earth; adapted as The Expanse season 5.
Nemzeti dal
"Nemzeti dal" (National Song) is a poem by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, written in Pest on 13 March 1848 and chanted by crowds during the Hungarian Revolution two days later.
Neo-slave narrative
A neo-slave narrative is a contemporary work of fiction, usually a novel, that reimagines slavery using the conventions of antebellum slave narratives, a tradition usually dated from Jubilee (1966).
Neo-Victorian
Neo-Victorian: contemporary fiction, film, and culture that consciously revisits the Victorian era (1837–1901), from Fowles and Byatt to Sarah Waters, steampunk, and the academic field founded around the 2008 journal Neo-Victorian Studies.