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Qilu Deng
Qilu Deng (歧路灯, "The Lantern at the Crossroads") is a 108-chapter vernacular Chinese novel written by Li Lüyuan in the Qianlong era, telling of a son's decline into gambling and later reform.
Qin Opera
Qin Opera (秦腔) is a 2005 novel by Jia Pingwa about life on rural Qingfeng Street, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2008.
Qing Ping Yue: Village Residence
"Qing Ping Yue: Village Residence" (清平乐·村居) is a 46-character rural ci by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, depicting an elderly couple and their three sons beside a stream.
Qing Shihua
Qing Shihua (清詩話, "Qing poetry talks") is a 1916 anthology of 43 Qing-dynasty shihua works of poetic criticism, compiled by scholar Ding Fubao and a standard source for Qing poetics.
Qing Yu An: Lantern Festival
Qing Yu An: Lantern Festival is a ci poem by Southern Song poet Xin Qiji describing the Lantern Festival night in Lin'an, famous for its closing lines.
Qisas al-anbiya
Qisas al-anbiya (قصص الأنبياء, "Stories of the Prophets") is a genre of Islamic literature recounting the lives and miracles of the prophets of the Quran, drawing on hadith and Israiliyyat.
Qisas al-Rabghuzi
Qisas al-Rabghuzi (Qiṣaṣ-i Rabghūzī), also known as Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (Stories of the Prophets), is a Turkic collection of stories of the prophets completed by Nasir al-Din Rabghuzi in 1310-11.
Qissa Puran Bhagat
Kissa Puran Bhagat is a Punjabi qissa about prince Puran Bhagat of Sialkot, falsely accused by his stepmother and rescued from a well by Gorakhnath.
Qissa-ye Amir Hamza
Qissa-ye Amir Hamza, also known as Dastan-e Amir Hamza or Hamza-nama, is a Persian and Urdu prose romance in which Hamza, the Prophet's uncle, becomes a legendary world-conquering hero.
Qiu Jin ji
Qiu Jin ji is the standard modern compilation of the poetry, ci lyrics, prose, and letters of Qiu Jin (1875–1907), the Chinese revolutionary and poet known as the "Woman Knight of Jianhu."
Qua Đèo Ngang
"Qua Đèo Ngang" is a Nôm poem by Bà Huyện Thanh Quan describing Đèo Ngang pass at dusk and her loneliness and homesickness while traveling to Huế.
Quadrilha
Quadrilha is a short 1930 poem by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, from his debut collection Alguma Poesia, tracing unrequited loves among six characters.
Quadrinhos brasileiros
Quadrinhos brasileiros, also called histórias em quadrinhos, are comics produced in Brazil since Angelo Agostini's Nhô Quim of 1869, later spanning children's magazines like Turma da Mônica and graphic novels.
Quan Âm Thị Kính
Quan Âm Thị Kính is a Vietnamese folk tale and chèo play in which Thị Kính, twice falsely accused, becomes an incarnation of the bodhisattva Quan Âm.
Quan Song Ci
Quan Song Ci (全宋詞, "Complete Song Ci") is the anthology of Song dynasty ci poetry compiled by Tang Guizhang, first published in 1940 and revised in 1965.
Quan Tangshi
Quan Tangshi (全唐詩, Complete Tang Poems), also called Yuding Quan Tangshi, is the standard collection of Tang poetry, compiled by imperial order of the Kangxi Emperor in 1705–1707.
Quan Tangwen
Quan Tangwen (全唐文), the Complete Prose of the Tang, is the official Qing dynasty collection of Tang and Five Dynasties prose, compiled under Dong Gao and printed in 1819.
Quarup
Quarup is a 1967 novel by the Brazilian writer Antônio Callado, tracing a young priest's journey from the Xingu region into the armed struggle against the military dictatorship.
Quasimodo
Quasimodo is the deaf, hunchbacked bell-ringer of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), named for Quasimodo Sunday; he protects Esmeralda, kills Frollo, and symbolizes courage beneath ugliness.
Quê hương
Quê hương ("Homeland") is a 1939 poem by Vietnamese poet Tế Hanh, written at 18, depicting his fishing village on the Trà Bồng River and a young man's longing for home.
Queen in Black
Queen in Black: 2026 Marvel Comics crossover by Al Ewing and Iban Coello in which Hela steals Knull's power, Knull returns as a light-wielding King in White, and the finale crowns Sleeper the new King in Black.
Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Queen of Hearts: the playing-card tyrant of Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, famous for 'Off with their heads!' though she never executes anyone; distinct from the Red Queen of Through the Looking-Glass.
Queen of the Damned
Queen of the Damned is a 2002 American-Australian horror fantasy film directed by Michael Rymer, starring Stuart Townsend as Lestat and Aaliyah as Akasha, adapted from Anne Rice's novels.
Queen's Blade (クイーンズブレイド)
Queen's Blade (クイーンズブレイド) is a Hobby Japan franchise begun in 2005 as Lost Worlds-licensed visual combat books about beautiful warriors dueling to become queen, later spanning figures, anime, and the 2026 rogue-lite card game Re:Build.
Queequeg
Queequeg is the tattooed Polynesian harpooneer in Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Ishmael's "married" companion and blood-brother, prince of Kokovoko, whose coffin saves Ishmael at the novel's end.
Queer (novel)
Queer, William S. Burroughs's short autobiographical novel (also his novella), written 1952 and published 1985, sequel to Junky: William Lee's obsessive pursuit of Eugene Allerton in Mexico City, basis of Luca Guadagnino's 2024 film with Daniel Craig.
Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is an 1823 historical novel by Walter Scott, set in fifteenth-century France and centered on the rivalry between Louis XI and Charles the Bold.
Questionable Content
Questionable Content is a slice-of-life/sci-fi webcomic by Jeph Jacques, running since August 1, 2003, set in alternate-present Northampton, Massachusetts, following Marten, Faye, and robots like Pintsize and Bubbles.
Questions of Travel
Questions of Travel is the title of a 1965 poem by Elizabeth Bishop about travel and Brazil, and of a 2012 Michelle de Kretser novel that takes its title from the poem.
Quicksand (TV series)
Quicksand (Störst av allt) is a 2019 Swedish courtroom thriller limited series, Netflix's first Swedish original, adapted from Malin Persson Giolito's novel and starring Hanna Ardéhn as Maja Norberg.