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Rainbow Bridge (pets)
Rainbow Bridge is a 1959 prose poem by Edna Clyne-Rekhy describing a pet afterlife meadow; it circulated anonymously until Paul Koudounaris traced its authorship in 2023.
Rainbow Six (novel)
Rainbow Six is Tom Clancy's 1998 techno-thriller novel (Putnam, 740 pp) starring John Clark leading the multinational counterterrorist unit Rainbow; its plot launched the 1998 Red Storm tactical shooter game and franchise.
Raise the Red Lantern (novella)
Raise the Red Lantern (妻妾成群) is a novella by the Chinese writer Su Tong about a nineteen-year-old who becomes the Fourth Mistress in a wealthy 1930s household.
Raistlin Majere
Raistlin Majere, Dragonlance wizard by Weis and Hickman, debuted 1984; frail golden-skinned twin of Caramon, hourglass eyes, red then Black Robes, attempted godhood after the War of the Lance.
Raja Gidh
Raja Gidh, Bano Qudsia's first full-length novel, published in 1981 in Lahore, is a modern classic of Urdu fiction on forbidden love and ethical limits.
Rajasekhara Charitramu
Rajasekhara Charitramu (రాజశేఖర చరిత్రము) is a Telugu social novel by Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu, generally regarded as the first Telugu novel, freely adapted from Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield.
Rajatarangini
Rajatarangini (River of Kings), Sanskrit chronicle of Kashmir's kings by Kalhana, c. 1148–1150 CE; eight tarangas, about 7,826 verses; continued by Jonaraja and others; edited by Stein in 1892.
Rajmohan's Wife
Rajmohan's Wife (রাজমোহনের স্ত্রী) is an 1864 novel by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, generally regarded as the first Indian novel in English. It follows Matangini, a Bengali wife in a bad marriage.
Rajsimha
Rajsimha (রাজসিংহ) is a historical novel by the Bengali writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, published in 1882. It dramatizes the struggle between Rana Rajsimha of Mewar and the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
Raka
Raka is a 1941 epic poem by the South African poet N. P. van Wyk Louw, generally considered the best-known epic poem in Afrikaans and his most read work.
Rakes of the Old Court
Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) is a 1929 Romanian novel by Mateiu I. Caragiale following three dissolute Bucharest men through taverns and gambling dens.
Ram bhakti poetry
Ram bhakti poetry (रामभक्ति काव्य) is medieval North Indian devotional verse devoted to Rama, composed chiefly in Hindi dialects, whose greatest exponent was Tulsidas, author of the Ramcharitmanas.
Ram c/o Anandhi
Ram c/o Anandhi (റാം c/o ആനന്ദി) is a 2020 Malayalam romance novel by Akhil P Dharmajan, published by DC Books, about Ram, an Alleppey youth chasing film dreams in Chennai, and Anandhi; it sold over four lakh copies and won the 2025 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar.
Ram ki Shakti Puja
Ram ki Shakti Puja (राम की शक्ति-पूजा) is a 1936 long Hindi poem by Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', retelling Rama's worship of the goddess Shakti before his victory over Ravana.
Rama and the Dragon
Rama and the Dragon (رامة والتنين) is a 1979 modernist novel by Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat about a love between a Christian man and a Muslim woman.
Ramacharitam
Ramacharitam (രാമചരിതം), also called Irāmacaritam, is an epic poem generally regarded as the earliest extant literary work in Malayalam, retelling the Yuddha Kanda of Valmiki's Ramayana.
Ramadhanya Charite
Ramadhanya Charite (ರಾಮಧಾನ್ಯ ಚರಿತೆ, "The Story of Rama's Grains") is a 16th-century Kannada allegorical kavya by the poet-saint Kanakadasa, in which nine grains quarrel and ragi is vindicated over rice.
Ramakathappattu
Ramakathappattu (രാമകഥപ്പാട്ട്) is a classical Malayalam narrative poem by Ayyippilla Asan of Avaduthura, near Kovalam, that retells the Ramayana and is counted among the major early Malayalam Ramayana texts.
Ramakien (รามเกียรติ์)
Ramakien (รามเกียรติ์, Ramakian) is Thailand's national epic, a Thai retelling of the Ramayana compiled under King Rama I and completed in 1798 in 116 volumes, performed in khon and painted at Wat Phra Kaew.
Ramanan
Ramanan (രമണൻ) is a Malayalam pastoral elegy in verse drama form, written by Changampuzha Krishna Pillai and published in 1936 as a memorial to the poet Edappally Raghavan Pillai.
Ramavijay
Ramavijay (रामविजय, "Rama's victory") is a Marathi verse retelling of the Ramayana by the saint-poet Shridhar, still recited aloud in annual week-long village gatherings across Maharashtra.
Ramayana
The Ramayana (रामायण), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to Valmiki that tells how Prince Rama rescued his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.
Ramchandrika
Ramchandrika (रामचन्द्रिका, also written Ramachandrika) is a Brajbhasha court epic on the Ramayana by the poet Keshavdas of Orchha, composed in Samvat 1657 (1601 CE).
Ramcharitmanas (रामचरितमानस)
Ramcharitmanas (रामचरितमानस), also called the Manas, is Tulsidas's sixteenth-century Awadhi epic retelling the Ramayana devotionally in seven kands; it differs from Valmiki by presenting Rama as Vishnu's avatar and anchors Ramlila and North Indian bhakti.
Ramparts (magazine)
Ramparts was a San Francisco Bay Area magazine, published from 1962 to 1975, that became a leading New Left outlet known for Vietnam and CIA exposés.
Ramsay Bolton
Ramsay Bolton, born Ramsay Snow, the Bastard of Bolton, is a fictional sadist in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Iwan Rheon; legitimized by Tommen I, killed by Sansa Stark in Battle of the Bastards.
Randall Flagg
Randall Flagg, also the Dark Man, Walkin' Dude, and Walter Padick, is Stephen King's recurring villain: a demonic shapeshifter first named in The Stand (1978), later in The Eyes of the Dragon and the Dark Tower series, adapted on screen by Sheridan, McConaughey, and Skarsgård.
Randamoozham
Randamoozham (രണ്ടാമൂഴം, "the second turn") is a Malayalam novel by M. T. Vasudevan Nair, published in December 1984, that retells the Mahabharata through the eyes of Bhima and won the Vayalar Award.
Randidangazhi
Randidangazhi (രണ്ടിടങ്ങഴി, "Two Measures of Rice") is a 1948 Malayalam novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai depicting Dalit agricultural laborers in Kuttanad, Kerala, and their entry into class struggle.
Randle McMurphy
Randle Patrick McMurphy is the rebellious protagonist of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a convict who feigns insanity to escape a work farm, battles Nurse Ratched in an Oregon psychiatric ward, and ends lobotomized; Jack Nicholson played him in the 1975 Oscar-sweeping film.