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Odia novel
The Odia novel is the tradition of book-length fiction in Odia, the language of Odisha, India, beginning with Fakir Mohan Senapati's 1902 Chha Mana Atha Guntha.
Odia Sahityara Itihasa
Odia Sahityara Itihasa (ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଇତିହାସ) is a history of Odia literature by Mayadhar Mansinha, published in English as History of Oriya Literature in 1962.
Odprawa posłów greckich
Odprawa posłów greckich (The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys) is a Renaissance tragedy by Polish poet Jan Kochanowski, first performed in 1578 at a wedding in Ujazdów near Warsaw.
Odyssey (George Chapman translation)
The Odyssey (George Chapman translation) is George Chapman's first complete English translation of Homer's Odyssey, published between 1614 and 1616, and served as the standard version until Alexander Pope's translations.
Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation)
Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation): 1996 Viking/Penguin English verse translation of Homer's epic by Princeton classicist Robert Fagles, with Bernard Knox's introduction; loose five- to six-beat free verse, the standard US classroom text, later contrasted with Emily Wilson's 2017 version.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια)
The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), attributed to Homer, is the ancient Greek epic of Odysseus' ten-year return from Troy, composed orally in dactylic hexameter, likely late eighth or seventh century BC.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Richmond Lattimore translation)
Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), published 1965/1967, is a line-for-line English verse translation of Homer in a long Greek-conscious line, long a standard academic version praised by the NYT and TLS and still highly ranked among English Odysseys.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
Robert Fitzgerald's 1961 English verse translation of Homer's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), a five-beat blank-verse rendering that won the Bollingen Prize, sold over two million copies, and remains a standard classroom translation alongside Lattimore, Fagles, and Wilson.
Of Being Numerous
Of Being Numerous is a 1968 poetry collection by the American poet George Oppen, published by New Directions and winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage is W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman about Philip Carey, a clubfooted orphan, his destructive love for Mildred Rogers, and his path to a family life; first filmed in 1934 with Bette Davis.
Of Love and Shadows
Of Love and Shadows (De amor y de sombra) is a 1984 novel by Isabel Allende, her second, telling a love story under a military dictatorship.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck's 1937 novella (Covici, Friede), follows migrant workers George and Lennie in Depression-era Soledad, California; adapted 1939 and 1992, frequently challenged, titled from Burns's 'To a Mouse'.
Oghuz Khagan
Oghuz Khagan (Oğuz Kağan), legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks and hero of the Oghuz Khagan Epic, transmitted in Oghuz-nama versions; oldest copy is the Uyghur-script Paris manuscript, with identity debated between Modu (Mete Khan) and the Scythians.
Oghuzname
Oghuzname (Oğuznâme, Oğuznamə) is the shared name for the epics and chronicles recounting the legendary history of the Oghuz Turks, centered on their mythical ancestor Oghuz Khan.
Oglaf
Oglaf is an Australian NSFW sex-comedy webcomic by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne, running weekly at oglaf.com since 2008, parodying fantasy tropes with recurring characters such as Ivan, Mistress, and the cumsprites.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首)
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首), also simply Hyakunin Isshu, is a 1235 anthology of 100 waka by 100 poets compiled by Fujiwara no Teika for Utsunomiya Yoritsuna's Saga villa, drawn from imperial anthologies, famous for 43 love poems and later the card set of competitive karuta.
Oğuz Kağan Destanı
Oğuz Kağan Destanı, the Epic of Oghuz Khan, is an ancient Turkish epic about the legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks, from birth to conquests.
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Oh, the Places You'll Go! is Dr. Seuss's 1990 Random House picture book, his last, following an unnamed "you" through life's highs and lows; it became America's standard graduation gift and a 2028 animated film.
Oi no Kobumi
Oi no Kobumi (笈の小文, "Small Writings from the Pack") is a haibun travel record by Matsuo Bashō, describing his journey from Edo to Kyoto in 1687–1688.
Oil on Water
Oil on Water is a 2010 novel by Nigerian writer Helon Habila in which two journalists travel the Niger Delta in search of a kidnapped British woman.
Oil!
Oil! is Upton Sinclair's 1926-27 novel about the Southern California oil boom, following Bunny Ross, son of tycoon J. Arnold Ross, amid Teapot Dome-era corruption, labor strikes, and socialism; banned in Boston and loosely adapted as There Will Be Blood (2007).
Ojađeno zvono
Ojađeno zvono ("The Sorrowful Bell") is a poetry collection by Tin Ujević, written while he lived in Sarajevo from 1930 to 1937. Published in 1933, it belongs to his mature phase.
Ōkagami
Ōkagami (大鏡, The Great Mirror) is a Japanese historical tale of the late Heian period recounting court history from 850 to 1025, centered on Fujiwara no Michinaga.
Okhaharan
Okhaharan (ઓખાહરણ) is a classical Gujarati akhyana, a sung narrative poem, composed by Premanand around 1667 across 93 cantos on the love of Okha, daughter of Banasura, and Aniruddha, grandson of Krishna.
Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道)
Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, The Narrow Road to the Deep North) is Matsuo Bashō's 1702 haikai travel record of his 1689, 2,400 km journey with Sora from Edo to Ōgaki, blending prose and haiku.
Old Czech Legends
Old Czech Legends (Staré pověsti české) is a collection of 34 Czech national legends by Alois Jirásek, first published as a book in 1894 for young readers.
Old English elegy
An Old English elegy is a short reflective poem in which a solitary speaker laments loss, exile, and transience; the elegies survive chiefly in the tenth-century Exeter Book.
Old English heroic poetry
Old English heroic poetry is the body of secular Old English verse celebrating the Germanic heroic age, most famously Beowulf, composed in alliterative, unrhymed lines by Christian poets.
Old English homilies
Old English homilies are vernacular prose sermons of Anglo-Saxon England, written for laypeople who could not understand Latin, chiefly by Ælfric of Eynsham and Wulfstan of York.
Old English literature
Old English literature (c. 650-1066): writing of Anglo-Saxon England in Old English and Latin, from Cædmon's Hymn and Beowulf's single Cotton manuscript to Alfredian prose and rare surviving poetry codices.