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Os Timbiras
Os Timbiras is an unfinished epic poem by the Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, published in Leipzig in 1857; only its first four cantos appeared in print.
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda is a 1988 novel by Peter Carey, winner of the Booker Prize, about two gamblers who wager on transporting a glass church.
Osman
Osman is a baroque epic in twenty cantos by the Dubrovnik writer Ivan Gundulić, covering the 1621 Battle of Khotyn and the 1622 downfall of Sultan Osman II.
Osmanlı Müellifleri
Osmanlı Müellifleri is a three-volume bio-bibliographical dictionary of Ottoman authors compiled by the bibliographer Bursalı Mehmed Tâhir, published in Istanbul from 1915 to 1926.
Osmanthus Rain
Osmanthus Rain (桂花雨) is a prose essay by the Taiwanese writer Qi Jun, published in 1976, recalling shaking osmanthus blossoms in childhood Zhejiang and expressing her lifelong homesickness.
Ossi di seppia
Ossi di seppia ("cuttlefish bones") is the first poetry collection of Italian poet Eugenio Montale, published in Turin in 1925 and later seen as a foundational work of twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Ossian
Ossian, also Oisín, is the purported third-century Gaelic bard behind James Macpherson's Poems of Ossian (1760–1773), a famous literary forgery that shaped European Romanticism despite the authenticity controversy.
Otaku Vampire's Love Bite
Otaku Vampire's Love Bite (Oshi ni Amagami, 推しに甘噛み) is Julietta Suzuki's ongoing shōjo rom-com manga about Hina Alucard, a vampire otaku who moves to Japan; VIZ publishes it in English since 2024.
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (動物化するポストモダン)
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan) is Hiroki Azuma's 2001 Kōdansha study arguing otaku reveal a database-consuming, 'animalized' Japanese postmodernity; translated by Abel and Kono (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Othappu
Othappu (ഒതപ്പ്) is a 2005 Malayalam novel by Sarah Joseph about a nun who leaves her convent to live with a priest who abandoned his vocation.
Othello
Othello, the Moor of Venice: Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy, written around 1604, sourced from Cinthio's Gli Hecatommithi, first performed at Whitehall in November 1604, printed in quarto 1622 and First Folio 1623.
Other prose
Other prose (Другая проза) is Russian fiction from the 1970s and 1980s that formed outside official Soviet literature, a term first applied by Andrei Bitov.
Other Worlds Than These
Other Worlds Than These is a 2026 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, the third and final Talisman book, following Jack Sawyer against the Gullet at the edge of Mid-World; distinct from John Joseph Adams's 2012 parallel-worlds anthology of the same title.
Otogi-zōshi
Otogi-zōshi (御伽草子), literally "companion tales," are a body of more than 400 short illustrated Japanese prose narratives produced from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, chiefly during the Muromachi period.
Otome game
Otome game (乙女ゲーム) is a video game genre for women with female protagonists romancing male characters, starting with Angelique (Koei, 1994); the name spread from Japanese magazines around 2001.
Otras inquisiciones
Otras inquisiciones is a 1952 collection of thirty-nine essays by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published by the journal Sur and ranging over literary criticism, history, language, religion, and metaphysics.
ottos mops
ottos mops is a famous 1963 German poem by the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl, telling a miniature story of Otto and his pug using only the vowel o.
Ou Isto ou Aquilo
Ou Isto ou Aquilo is a 1964 collection of 57 children's poems by the Brazilian writer Cecília Meireles, published in the year of her death.
Oubei Shihua
Oubei Shihua (瓯北诗话) is a work of poetry criticism by the Qing historian and poet Zhao Yi, published in 1802, with each chapter examining one poet in depth.
Ouga
Ouga (五友歌, "Song of Five Friends") is a cycle of six sijo poems by the Joseon poet Yun Seondo praising water, rock, pine, bamboo, and the moon.
Our America
"Our America" (Nuestra América) is an 1891 essay by Cuban independence leader José Martí, published in New York, calling on Spanish American republics to unite and resist United States expansionism.
Our Casuarina Tree
"Our Casuarina Tree" is an 1881 lyric poem by Toru Dutt, an early Indian poet writing in English, memorializing a tree at her family's Calcutta home.
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, known as KimiSen, is a Japanese fantasy romance light novel series by Kei Sazane, adapted into anime.
Our Musseque
Our Musseque (Portuguese: Nosso musseque) is a novel by Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira, written in prison in 1962 and published in 2003, about childhood in Luanda's musseques.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend: Charles Dickens's last completed novel, serialized 1864–65 by Chapman and Hall; an inheritance plot centered on Thames drownings and London dust heaps, illustrated by Marcus Stone, manuscript now at the Morgan Library.
Our Share of Night
Our Share of Night (Nuestra parte de noche) is Mariana Enríquez's 2019 horror novel about mediums Juan and Gaspar and the occult Order in dictatorship-era Argentina; it won the Premio Herralde and Premio de la Crítica 2019.
Our Village
Our Village (Turkish: Bizim Köy), also translated as A Village in Anatolia, is a 1950 book of observational notes by village teacher Mahmut Makal that founded Turkish village literature.
Our Women in the Sharia and Society
Our Women in the Sharia and Society (امرأتنا في الشريعة والمجتمع) is a 1930 treatise by Tunisian reformist writer Tahar Haddad arguing for reform of women's status in Islamic law.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa (Den afrikanske farm) is Karen Blixen's 1937 memoir, published as Isak Dinesen, about her 1914–1931 coffee farm in Kenya; basis of Sydney Pollack's 1985 Oscar-winning film starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is an 1859 free-verse poem by Walt Whitman in which a boy on the Long Island shore hears a mourning mockingbird and the sea whisper "death."