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Returning to Live in the Countryside
Returning to Live in the Countryside (Guī yuán tián jū; 歸園田居) is a cycle of five poems by the Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, written in 406.
Revelations of Divine Love
Revelations of Divine Love is a Christian mystical work by the anchoress Julian of Norwich, recording sixteen visions of Christ she experienced during a nearly fatal illness in May 1373.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire) is the last major work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an autobiographical text written 1776–1778 and published in 1782.
Review
Review: an evaluation of a published work, especially a book, by trade outlets (Kirkus, Publishers Weekly), academic journals (1,300-word Cambridge reviews), or consumers; covers purpose, structure, and length standards.
Revival (novel)
Revival (novel): Stephen King's 2014 Scribner horror novel, also described as a Frankenstein- and Lovecraft-influenced story of Jamie Morton and preacher Charles Jacobs's secret electricity.
Revolution 2020
Revolution 2020 (Love. Corruption. Ambition.) is a 2011 Chetan Bhagat novel, Rupa Publications, 296 pages, about Gopal, Raghav and Aarti, a Varanasi love triangle entangled with corruption in India's education sector.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is Richard Yates's 1961 debut novel about Frank and April Wheeler, a 1950s Connecticut suburban couple whose marriage and Paris escape fantasy collapse. National Book Award finalist; adapted by Sam Mendes in 2008 with DiCaprio and Winslet.
Reze (Chainsaw Man)
Reze (レゼ) is a Chainsaw Man character, a Soviet-trained Bomb Devil hybrid who romances Denji in the Bomb Girl arc. Central to the 2025 MAPPA film Reze Arc, which topped the North American box office.
Rhaenyra Targaryen
Rhaenyra Targaryen, the Half-Year Queen, is George R.R. Martin's fictional first-born child of King Viserys I, named heir at eight, dragonrider of Syrax, wife of Laenor Velaryon and Daemon Targaryen, and queen claimant killed by Aegon II's dragon Sunfyre in the Dance of the Dragons.
Rhapsody on Climbing the Tower
Rhapsody on Climbing the Tower (Denglou fu) is a short lyrical fu by Wang Can, written around 204 while he lived in Jingzhou as an unwelcome guest of governor Liu Biao.
Rhett Butler
Rhett Butler is the blockade-runner antihero of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and Clark Gable's role in the 1939 film, Scarlett O'Hara's third husband, father of Bonnie Blue, subject of authorized sequel Rhett Butler's People.
Rhythm of War
Rhythm of War (2020) is Brandon Sanderson's fourth Stormlight Archive novel and sequel to Oathbringer, published by Tor Books; a #1 New York Times bestseller continuing the war against Odium on Roshar.
Rich Girl Caretaker
Rich Girl Caretaker (Saijo no Osewa) is a Japanese romantic comedy light novel series by Yusaku Sakaishi, published by Hobby Japan since 2021 and adapted into an anime in 2026.
Rich Man, Poor Man (miniseries)
Rich Man, Poor Man is ABC's 1976 twelve-hour miniseries adapted from Irwin Shaw's 1970 novel, starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely as the Jordache family; it ranked second for 1976-77, won four Emmys, and spawned Book II.
Rich People Problems
Rich People Problems is Kevin Kwan's 2017 Doubleday novel, the third book in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, following the Shang-Young clan's fight over matriarch Su Yi's Tyersall Park estate.
Richard and Mary Parker
Richard and Mary Parker are fictional Marvel Comics characters, the deceased parents of Spider-Man's Peter Parker. Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5 (1968), they are spies who died in a plane crash, leaving Peter with Ben and May Parker.
Richard Cory
"Richard Cory" is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, first published in 1897, in which a wealthy man admired by his town dies by suicide.
Richard III (play)
Richard III is Shakespeare's history play, written c. 1592–3 and first printed in 1597, dramatizing Richard III's villainous rise and death at Bosworth; also titled The Tragedy of King Richard the Third.
Richie Tozier
Richie "Trashmouth" Tozier, Richard Tozier, fictional member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's It (1986); wisecracking kid with glasses and impressions, adult L.A. disc jockey; played by Finn Wolfhard and Bill Hader in the 2017-2019 films.
Rickon Stark
Rickon Stark is the youngest child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones; in the novels he hides on Skagos with Osha and Shaggydog, in the show Ramsay Bolton kills him in 'Battle of the Bastards'. Distinct from the historical Rickon Stark, son of Cregan.
Rickshaw Boy
Rickshaw Boy (Luotuo Xiangzi) is a 1936 novel by Lao She about a poor rickshaw driver in Beijing whose hopes of owning a cart are repeatedly destroyed.
Ricordi
Ricordi, fully Ricordi politici e civili, is a collection of 221 aphorisms on politics and private life by Florentine statesman Francesco Guicciardini, composed between 1512 and 1530.
Riders in the Chariot
Riders in the Chariot is Patrick White's sixth novel, published in 1961, following four lonely outsiders in a Sydney suburb who share a visionary experience of Ezekiel's chariot.
Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves, also known as Brinkley Manor, is a 1934 comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse and the second full-length Jeeves novel, set at Aunt Dahlia's Brinkley Court.
Rígsþula
Rígsþula ("The List of Ríg", sometimes "The Lay of Ríg") is an Old Norse eddic-style poem of about 48 stanzas telling how the god Ríg fathered the ancestors of the three social classes and the first king.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, also known as Rikki Tikki Tavi, is Rudyard Kipling's 1893 Jungle Book short story about a mongoose who defends an English family in Segowlee, India, from the cobras Nag and Nagaina.
Rimas
Rimas is the posthumously published collection of short lyric poems by the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, printed in Madrid in 1871, a year after his death.
Rincewind
Rincewind, the Wizzard, is Terry Pratchett's hapless Discworld wizard, first appearing in The Colour of Magic (1983). A failed Unseen University student with a Great Spell lodged in his head, he survives by running away.
Rind ü Zâhid
Rind ü Zâhid is a Persian prose dialogue by the sixteenth-century poet Fuzûlî, debating life, love, and worship between an ascetic father and a libertine son.
Ring (リング) (Suzuki novel)
Ring (リング) is a 1991 horror novel by Koji Suzuki, which details a journalist investigating a cursed videotape that kills viewers exactly seven days after viewing it.