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And did those feet in ancient time

"And did those feet in ancient time" is William Blake's 1804 preface poem to Milton, set by Hubert Parry in 1916 as the hymn "Jerusalem", an unofficial English anthem sung at the Proms, Women's Institute meetings, and sporting events.

And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don, also translated The Quiet Don, is a four-volume epic novel by Mikhail Sholokhov about Don Cossack life through World War I and the Civil War.

And the Ass Saw the Angel

And the Ass Saw the Angel is Nick Cave's 1989 debut novel, first published by Black Spring Press. Its mute outcast narrator Euchrid Eucrow inhabits the mythic Southern Gothic valley of Ukulore, where obsession with a foundling girl ends in suicide.

And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed is Khaled Hosseini's third novel (Riverhead, 2013), a nine-chapter mosaic about siblings Abdullah and Pari separated in 1952 Shadbagh, spanning Kabul, Paris, San Francisco, and Tinos over nearly 60 years.

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None (1939) is Agatha Christie's closed-circle mystery novel, first titled Ten Little Niggers in the UK; ten strangers on Soldier Island die according to a nursery rhyme, 100 million copies sold.

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Dr. Seuss's first children's book (Vanguard Press, 1937), about Marco embellishing a horse and wagon on his walk home; withdrawn from publication in March 2021 over racist imagery.

And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?

And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online? (Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta?) is a Japanese romantic comedy light novel series by Shibai Kineko with a manga and a 12-episode 2016 anime by Project No.9; the novels concluded at volume 23 in December 2023.

Andalusi poetry

Andalusi poetry (الشعر الأندلسي) is the Arabic poetry of al-Andalus, Muslim-ruled Iberia, which developed from eastern models into distinctive strophic forms, the muwashshah and zajal.

Andha Yug

Andha Yug (अंधा युग, "The Blind Age") is a 1953 Hindi verse play by Dharmvir Bharati retelling the Mahabharata war's final day as an allegory of moral blindness.

Andher Nagari

Andher Nagari (अंधेर नगरी, "the city of darkness") is an 1881 Hindi farce by Bharatendu Harishchandra, set in a city where every good sells at one uniform price, satirizing a foolish ruler and unjust governance.

Andhere Band Kamre

Andhere Band Kamre is a 1961 Hindi novel by Mohan Rakesh about a failing marriage in post-Independence Delhi, a major work of the Nayi Kahani movement.

Andhere Mein

Andhere Mein (अँधेरे में), "In Darkness," is a long Hindi poem by Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, written between 1957 and 1962, dramatizing a middle-class intellectual's conflict between conscience and compromise.

Andhra Mahabharatamu

The Andhra Mahabharatamu, also called the Andhra Mahabharatam, is the Telugu rendering of Vyasa's Sanskrit Mahabharata, produced between the 11th and 14th centuries and regarded as the foundational work of classical Telugu literature.

Andhrula Charitra

Andhrula Charitra (ఆంధ్రుల చరిత్ర, "History of the Andhras") is the title of several Telugu works on Telugu history, the best known being Suravaram Pratapa Reddy's 1949 social history.

Andrea (The Walking Dead)

Andrea is a Walking Dead character played by Laurie Holden on AMC seasons 1-3, killed off in the Season 3 finale after the Governor storyline, while her comic counterpart, Rick's partner and the group's sniper, survives until Issue 167.

Andy Capp

Andy Capp, comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first appeared 5 August 1957 in the Daily Mirror's northern edition; a lazy, flat-capped Hartlepool drinker with wife Flo, later syndicated worldwide.

Ang Mahal na Passion

Ang Mahal na Passion is the first published Tagalog pasyon, a verse narrative of Christ's Passion by Gaspar Aquino de Belen, first published in 1703 or 1704.

Ang Mga Tula ni Jose Corazon de Jesus

Ang Mga Tula ni Jose Corazon de Jesus are the poems of Tagalog poet Jose Corazon de Jesus, the Hari ng Balagtasan whose "Bayan Ko" became a patriotic song.

Angarey

Angarey (انگارے, "burning coals") is a 1932 Urdu anthology published in Lucknow by four young writers; its 1933 government ban led to the Progressive Writers' Association.

Angel Down (novel)

Angel Down is Daniel Kraus's 2025 Atria novel about five WWI soldiers who find a fallen angel in No Man's Land, told in one sentence; it won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Frank McCourt's 1996 Scribner debut about a poverty-stricken Limerick childhood, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the NBCC award, adapted by Alan Parker in 1999.

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons, also called Anges et démons in French, is Dan Brown's 2000 thriller and first Robert Langdon novel, a prequel to The Da Vinci Code involving the Illuminati, stolen antimatter, a Vatican conclave, and a 2009 Ron Howard film with Tom Hanks.

Anggun Nan Tongga

Anggun Nan Tongga, also spelled Anggun nan Tungga, is one of the best-known kaba, classical oral narratives of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose is Wallace Stegner's 1971 Doubleday novel, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, narrated by historian Lyman Ward and based on Mary Hallock Foote's letters, with a lasting plagiarism controversy.

Angolan war short story

The Angolan war short story is short fiction, mostly in Portuguese and some in Afrikaans, depicting Angola's independence war, civil war, and border war from 1961 to 2002.

Angstrom Levy

Angstrom Levy, a dimension-portaling scientist villain from Robert Kirkman's Invincible (first appearance Invincible #16, 2004), whose failed experiment merged his mind with multiversal variants and drove his revenge on Invincible; voiced by Sterling K. Brown in the Prime Video series.

Angústia

Angústia is a 1936 Brazilian novel by Graciliano Ramos, set in Maceió and narrated by the civil servant Luís da Silva; critics often compare its intensity with Dostoevski's.

Anhelli

Anhelli is a prose poem by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, published in Paris in 1838, depicting Polish exiles deported to Siberia after the failed November Uprising.

Aniketana

Aniketana (ಅನಿಕೇತನ) is a 1963 collection of poems by the Kannada writer Kuvempu, and the name of a quarterly journal of Kannada language and literature published in Bangalore.

Animal Farm

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story is a 1945 novella by George Orwell, an allegory of the Soviet regime in which farm animals' rebellion descends into tyranny.