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O Quinze
O Quinze is a 1930 novel by Brazilian writer Rachel de Queiroz, her debut, depicting the great 1915 drought in Ceará and the hunger and forced migration it caused.
O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife
O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife is a 1954 narrative poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto narrated by the Capibaribe River.
O Sertanejo
O Sertanejo is an 1875 novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, set in 1764 in the sertão of Ceará and a foundational work of regionalist fiction.
O Tempo e o Vento
O Tempo e o Vento (Time and the Wind) is a trilogy of historical novels by Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo, published between 1949 and 1962.
O Uraguai
O Uraguai is a 1769 epic poem by José Basílio da Gama about the war between Portuguese and Spanish forces and the Guaraní of the Jesuit missions.
O viziune a sentimentelor
O viziune a sentimentelor (A Vision of Feelings) is a 1964 poetry collection by Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu, his second book, which won the Writers' Union Prize and includes Leoaică tânără, iubirea.
Oathbringer
Oathbringer is Brandon Sanderson's 2017 epic fantasy novel, Book Three of the Stormlight Archive, following Dalinar Kholin during a new Desolation on Roshar; a #1 New York Times bestseller and Audible's most pre-ordered book.
Oberyn Martell
Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper, is a fictional prince of House Martell in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, played by Pedro Pascal; he dies in a trial by combat against Gregor Clegane, avenging his sister Elia.
Oblomov
Oblomov (Обломов) is an 1859 novel by Ivan Goncharov whose hero, the landowner Ilya Oblomov, lies on his sofa while his estate decays, giving Russian the word "oblomovshchina" for such inertia.
Ocalenie
Ocalenie (Rescue) is a 1945 poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz, gathering poems written between 1932 and 1945, and ranked among the most important works of twentieth-century Polish poetry.
Ocidentais
Ocidentais is the fourth and last book of poetry by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, published in 1901 in Poesias completas, known for philosophical poems including "Círculo Vicioso".
Odakkuzhal
Odakkuzhal (ഓടക്കുഴൽ, "the bamboo flute") is a 1950 collection of sixty Malayalam poems by G. Sankara Kurup, and in 1965 it became the first work to win the Jnanpith Award.
Odas elementales
Odas elementales (Elementary Odes) is a 1954 collection of 68 poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda praising ordinary objects, foods, and feelings, published by Editorial Losada in Buenos Aires.
Odayil Ninnu
Odayil Ninnu (ഓടയിൽ നിന്ന്; From the Gutter) is a 1942 Malayalam novel by P. Kesavadev following Pappu, a rickshaw puller who endures poverty and humiliation while keeping his dignity.
Odd Thomas (novel)
Odd Thomas (2003) is Dean Koontz's supernatural thriller about a fry cook in Pico Mundo, California, who sees the dead and uncovers a planned catastrophe; first of seven novels, adapted to film by Stephen Sommers.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats's 1819 ekphrastic ode in five ten-line stanzas, addresses an imagined Greek vase and ends with "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," first published in Annals of the Fine Arts.
Ode on Melancholy
"Ode on Melancholy" is a three-stanza lyric by John Keats, one of his five great odes of 1819, arguing that melancholy is inseparable from joy.
Ode to a Nightingale
"Ode to a Nightingale" (Keats's "Ode to the Nightingale") is a May 1819 lyric ode by John Keats, published July 1819 in the Annals of the Fine Arts and in his 1820 collection; eight ten-line pentameter stanzas on mortality versus the bird's immortal song. Not Joseph Warton's 1770 ode of the same title.
Ode to Aphrodite
The Ode to Aphrodite, Sappho fragment 1, is a prayer poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos and her only poem preserved intact from antiquity.
Ode to Joy
Ode to Joy, or An die Freude, is Beethoven's choral setting of Schiller's 1785 poem in the Ninth Symphony finale; adopted as the European anthem in 1972 without the poem's lyrics, it is also the Olympics' unofficial hymn since 1936.
Ode to the West Wind
"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, an 1819 lyric written near Florence in terza rima sonnet units and published with Prometheus Unbound in 1820; its speaker asks the autumn wind, destroyer and preserver, to carry his words as a prophecy of spring and renewal.
Ode to Youth
Ode to Youth (Polish: Oda do młodości, originally Do młodości) is an ode by Adam Mickiewicz written in Kaunas in December 1820, considered the manifesto of Polish Romanticism.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', also called the Immortality Ode, is an eleven-stanza irregular Pindaric ode begun March 1802, completed 1804, published 1807, on pre-existence and lost childhood vision.
Odes
The Odes (Latin: Carmina) is a collection of 103 Latin lyric poems in four books by Horace, adapting Greek lyric meters to Roman life and coining carpe diem.
Odes of Bacchylides
The Odes of Bacchylides are the surviving choral songs of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides of Keos, recovered from a papyrus found in Egypt in 1896.
Odessa Tales
Odessa Tales (Одесские рассказы) is a cycle of short stories by Isaac Babel about the Jewish underworld of Odessa, centered on the gangster Benya Krik, published 1921 to 1924.
Odi barbare
Odi barbare (Barbarian Odes) is an 1877 collection of lyrics by the Italian poet Giosuè Carducci, who transposed the stanzaic meters of Greek and Latin lyric poetry into Italian.
Odia Bhagavata
The Bhagavata, or Odia Bhagabata, is the 16th-century Odia rendering of the Bhagavata Purana by poet Jagannath Das, composed in simple rhythmic verse and a central devotional text of Odisha.
Odia devotional poetry
Odia devotional poetry is the body of devotional verse in the Odia language, rooted in the Jagannath cult of Puri and central to Odia literature since medieval times.
Odia essay
The Odia essay (ପ୍ରବନ୍ଧ, prabandha) is the essay as a literary genre in the Odia language, which took shape in Odisha from the late nineteenth century onward.