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Out of the Dust
Out of the Dust, also simply titled Out of the Dust (1997), is Karen Hesse's free-verse Newbery Medal-winning novel about 14-year-old Billie Jo surviving the Oklahoma Dust Bowl after a kerosene accident kills her mother.
Out Stealing Horses
Out Stealing Horses (Ut og stjæle hester) is a 2003 novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson about Trond Sander, whose memories return of the summer of 1948 with his father.
Out, Out—
"Out, Out—" is a 1916 narrative poem by Robert Frost about a young boy in rural Vermont who dies after a buzz saw severs his hand.
Outlander (book series)
Outlander book series by Diana Gabaldon: historical time-travel novels, first published 1991 (UK title Cross Stitch), following Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser across 1743 Scotland and colonial America, nine published novels, tenth announced, Starz adaptation.
Outlander (novel)
Outlander (1991), Diana Gabaldon's first novel, also titled Cross Stitch in the UK, follows WWII nurse Claire Randall time-traveling to 18th-century Scotland and outlaw Jamie Fraser; genre-hybrid bestseller that launched a nine-book series and the Starz adaptation.
Outsiders (comics)
Outsiders (comics): DC Comics superhero team created in 1983 by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo, founded by Batman after leaving the Justice League; original lineup Batman, Black Lightning, Katana, Geo-Force, Halo, Metamorpho; revived in 1993, 2003, and 2023.
Ouyang Wenzhong Gong Ji
Ouyang Wenzhong Gong Ji (歐陽文忠公集) is the 153-juan collected works of the Song statesman and writer Ouyang Xiu, compiled under Zhou Bida and completed in 1196.
Over Sea, Under Stone
Over Sea, Under Stone (1965) is Susan Cooper's children's fantasy, first book of The Dark Is Rising sequence: the Drew children find a map in a Cornish attic and race the Dark to a grail, guided by Great-Uncle Merry.
Overlord (novel series)
Overlord (オーバーロード) is Kugane Maruyama's dark fantasy light novel series illustrated by so-bin, begun as a 2010 web novel and printed by Enterbrain from 2012; Yen Press publishes it in English, and it ends at volume 18.
Owls Do Cry
Owls Do Cry is the first novel by New Zealand writer Janet Frame, published in 1957, tracing twenty years in the life of the Withers family.
Oxford poetry anthologies
Oxford poetry anthologies are Oxford University Press's poetry anthology series, chiefly the Oxford Book line (English Verse; American, Irish, war, and period volumes), known for editor-driven canon-making, expanding revisions, and critical controversies.
Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship: anti-Stratfordian theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), wrote the Shakespeare canon under a pseudonym; proposed by J. Thomas Looney in 1920, promoted by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, contested by stylometric and chronology studies.
Ozhivudivasathe Kali
Ozhivudivasathe Kali (An Off-Day Game) is a Malayalam short story by Unni R., first published in 2003 and adapted into a 2015 film that won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Film.
Ozidi
Ozidi is an oral epic of the Ijo people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, telling how a warrior's son, trained in magic, avenges his father's murder.
Ozma of Oz
Ozma of Oz (1907) is the third Oz book by L. Frank Baum, published by Reilly & Britton and illustrated by John R. Neill. Dorothy returns to Oz, washes ashore in the Land of Ev with Billina and Tik-Tok, and helps Ozma rescue the royal family from the Nome King.
Ozymandias
Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias" (also known by its full first line), written in competition with Horace Smith about Ramesses II's ruined statue, turns a boastful inscription into an enduring irony on the transience of power.
P.S. I Still Love You
P.S. I Still Love You is Jenny Han's 2015 YA novel, second in the To All the Boys trilogy, and its 2020 Netflix film directed by Michael Fimognari, starring Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, and Jordan Fisher.
Pábitelé
Pábitelé ("The Palaverers") is a collection of twelve short stories by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, first published in Prague in 1964 and the source of the word pábitel, a byword for Hrabal's poetics.
Pachinko (novel)
Pachinko (파친코) is Min Jin Lee's 2017 National Book Award-finalist historical novel tracing four generations of a Korean family in Japan from 1910 to 1989, centered on Sunja and the Zainichi experience; adapted by Apple TV+ in 2022.
Padavali of Narottam Das
The Padavali of Narottam Das (নরোত্তম দাস) is Bengali Vaishnava devotional verse by sixteenth-century poet Narottam Das Thakur, who shaped the padavali kirtan tradition of Bengal.
Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear, also Paddington Brown, is Michael Bond's fictional spectacled bear from Darkest Peru, first published 13 October 1958 in A Bear Called Paddington; known for his duffle coat, marmalade sandwiches, refugee backstory, three films, and West End musical.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a 1993 novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, narrated by ten-year-old Patrick Clarke as his parents' marriage falls apart in 1968 Dublin.
Padma Puran
Padma Puran (পদ্মাপুরাণ), also called Padmapurana or Manasamangal, is a medieval Bengali mangalkavya in praise of the folk snake goddess Manasa, composed between 1300 and 1800.
Padmapurana
Padmapurana (পদ্মাপুরাণ), also called Padma Purana or Manasamangal, is a Bengali mangalkavya composed by Vijay Gupta around 1494, viewed as the oldest extant of its genre.
Padmavat
Padmavat (पद्मावत), also Padumavati, is a 1540 Awadhi Sufi epic by Malik Muhammad Jayasi telling of Ratansen of Chittor and princess Padmavati of Singhal as an allegory of the soul's union with God.
Padmavati
Padmavati (পদ্মাবতী) is a Bengali romantic epic written by poet Syed Alaol in 1648 at the Arakan court, adapting Jayasi's 1540 Awadhi poem Padmavat and regarded as Alaol's finest work.
Padshahnama
Padshahnama, also rendered Badshahnama or Shahjahannama, is the official illustrated Persian chronicle of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's reign (1628–58), written by the court historian Abd al-Hamid Lahori.
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa is a Tagalog patriotic poem published in 1896 and attributed to Andres Bonifacio, written to urge Filipinos to join the Katipunan.
Pagal
Pagal (पागल, "The Lunatic") is a 1953 Nepali prose poem by Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota, whose speaker embraces madness to indict a society blind to creativity.
Page
A page is one side of a leaf, which has a recto and a verso, meaning one leaf equals two pages. This unit became autonomous with the codex.