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Orbis Pictus
Orbis Pictus, fully Orbis Sensualium Pictus, is an illustrated Latin textbook for children by Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), first published in Nuremberg in 1658.
Orbital (novel)
Orbital is Samantha Harvey's 2023 novel about six astronauts aboard the International Space Station over one day and sixteen orbits of Earth; it won the 2024 Booker Prize, the first winner set in space, at 136 pages the second-shortest winner.
Orc Eroica
Orc Eroica (オーク英雄物語 ～忖度列伝～, Orc Eiyuu Monogatari: Sontaku Retsuden) is a fantasy light novel series by Rifujin na Magonote about Bash, a war-hero orc journeying to lose his virginity; web novel 2019, Fantasia Bunko 2020, Yen Press English edition, manga on Young Ace UP.
Orchid Pavilion Collection
The Orchid Pavilion Collection (蘭亭集, Lanting ji) is an anthology of poems from a 353 CE gathering hosted by calligrapher Wang Xizhi at the Orchid Pavilion in Shaoxing.
Ordeal by Innocence
Ordeal by Innocence is a 1958 Agatha Christie mystery novel in which Dr Arthur Calgary arrives too late with proof that a convicted murderer was innocent.
Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation)
Order of the Phoenix: fictional secret society in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, founded by Dumbledore against Voldemort and the Death Eaters; formed in the 1970s, reformed 1995, based at 12 Grimmauld Place, distinct from Dumbledore's Army.
Oreimo
Oreimo (俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない) is a Japanese light novel series by Tsukasa Fushimi, Dengeki Bunko, 2008-2021, about siblings Kyousuke and Kirino Kousaka; over 5 million copies, two anime seasons (2010, 2013), manga, games, and Kuroneko spinoffs.
Oreshura
Oreshura (俺の彼女と幼なじみが修羅場すぎる) is a GA Bunko light novel series by Yuji Yuji and Ruroo, 2011–2022, over 2 million copies, with a 2013 twelve-episode anime and a GanGan Joker manga.
Oresuki (俺好き)
Oresuki (俺を好きなのはお前だけかよ) is a harem rom-com light novel by Rakuda with art by Buriki, Dengeki Bunko, 17 volumes 2016-2022, 22nd Dengeki Novel Prize Gold Award; adapted into a Shonen Jump+ manga (6 volumes) and a 12-episode 2019 CONNECT anime plus a 2020 OVA.
Organizations of the Dune universe
Organizations of the Dune universe: Spacing Guild, Bene Gesserit, CHOAM, Landsraad, House Corrino, Mentats, Bene Tleilax. Institutions dominating Frank Herbert's Dune novels' politics, religion, trade, and space travel.
Origin (Brown novel)
Origin (2017) is Dan Brown's fifth Robert Langdon thriller, set in Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, and Seville, following Langdon and Ambra Vidal as they unlock Edmond Kirsch's discovery, guarded by the AI Winston.
Original character
Original character (OC, OFC, OMC) is fandom slang for a fictional character invented by an author, artist, or player rather than taken from an existing canon, used in fanfiction, art, and role-play, with related Mary Sue criticism and partial copyright protection for character expression.
Original Sin (comics)
Original Sin is Marvel's 2014 crossover event by Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato, in which Uatu the Watcher is murdered and his stolen eye unleashes the Marvel Universe's secrets, leading Nick Fury to become the Unseen.
Original Sin (Tapper and Thompson book)
Original Sin (President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again), 2025 Penguin Press book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson based on 200-plus post-election interviews arguing Biden's 2024 reelection bid concealed cognitive decline; a #1 bestseller drawing both praise and criticism.
Oríkì
Oríkì is the oral praise poetry of the Yorùbá people of West Africa, performed by stringing together praise names for people, lineages, towns, deities, and even animals and plants.
Orlando Furioso
Orlando Furioso (also Orlando furioso) is Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric epic in ottava rima, first printed at Ferrara in 1516 in 40 cantos and definitive in 46 cantos in 1532, continuing Boiardo's Orlando innamorato with the Frank-Saracen war, Orlando's madness, and the Este-celebrating love of Ruggiero and Bradamante.
Orlando Innamorato
Orlando Innamorato is an unfinished chivalric poem in ottava rima by the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, in which the paladins Orlando and Rinaldo fall in love with Angelica during Charlemagne's war against the Moors.
Orlando: A Biography
Orlando: A Biography is Virginia Woolf's 1928 Hogarth Press novel, inspired by lover Vita Sackville-West, following a poet who lives four centuries and changes sex halfway through.
Ormulum
The Ormulum (Orrmulum), a 12th-century Early Middle English verse homily cycle on the Gospels by the Augustinian canon Orm, surviving in his autograph Bodleian MS Junius 1 with its own phonetic spelling system.
Ormund Hightower
Ormund Hightower is the Lord of Oldtown and head of House Hightower in Fire & Blood and House of the Dragon, green commander of the Reach host, uncle-nephew of Otto Hightower, who fell at Tumbleton in 130 AC; the show plays him with James Norton.
Ornamental prose
Ornamental prose (орнаментальная проза) is a style in Russian literature in which poetic devices like rhythmical repetition and leitmotifs replace causal plot; it flourished in the modernist 1910s and 1920s.
Oroonoko
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave (1688) is Aphra Behn's short prose fiction about an African prince tricked into slavery in Surinam, an early English novel and early anti-slavery narrative.
Orphic poetry
Orphic poetry is the body of ancient Greek hexameter verse attributed to the mythical singer Orpheus, preserved mainly in fragments, gold grave tablets, and the Derveni Papyrus.
Orr (Catch-22)
Orr is Yossarian's tentmate in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22: a cheerful, crash-prone pilot who secretly plans his escape and rows to Sweden, embodying the 'or' of alternatives.
Oru Desathinte Katha
Oru Desathinte Katha (ഒരു ദേശത്തിന്റെ കഥ) is a 1971 Malayalam novel by S. K. Pottekkatt, following Sreedharan from his village Athiranippadam on journeys reaching Africa and Switzerland.
Oru Manithan Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam
Oru Manithan Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam (ஒரு மனிதன் ஒரு வீடு ஒரு உலகம்) is a Tamil novel by Jayakanthan, serialized in Ananda Vikatan in 1972 and regarded as his finest.
Os Escravos
Os Escravos is a posthumous 1883 collection of 34 antislavery poems by the Brazilian poet Castro Alves, including O Navio Negreiro and Vozes d'África.
Os Lusíadas
Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), Luís de Camões's 1572 Portuguese epic in 10 cantos and 1,102 ottava-rima stanzas, celebrates Vasco da Gama's sea voyage to India and Portugal's history, emulating Virgil's Aeneid.
Os Sapos
Os Sapos, "The Frogs", is a satirical poem by Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira, written in 1918 and published in his 1919 book Carnaval; it mocks Parnassianism.
Os Sertões
Os Sertões, translated as Rebellion in the Backlands, is a 1902 nonfiction book by Brazilian writer Euclides da Cunha recounting the army's destruction of the Canudos settlement in 1897.