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Arjuna (अर्जुन)
Arjuna (अर्जुन), third Pandava in the Mahabharata, son of Kunti and Indra, supreme archer with the Gandiva bow and Pashupatastra, addressee of the Bhagavad Gita, also called Partha, Dhananjaya, Savyasachin.
Arkham
Arkham is H.P. Lovecraft's fictional Massachusetts town on the Miskatonic River, home of Miskatonic University, first named in 1920, modeled on Salem, later namesake of Arkham House, Arkham Horror, and DC's asylum.
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is a 1989 DC Comics Batman graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean, in which asylum inmates seize the institution and Batman confronts his guilt, told through experimental mixed-media art.
Armaghan-e-Hijaz
Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغان حجاز, "The Gift of Hijaz") is the final poetry collection of Muhammad Iqbal, published posthumously in 1938 and written in both Persian and Urdu.
Armand (The Vampire Chronicles)
Armand is a vampire in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, first appearing in Interview with the Vampire (1976) and narrator of The Vampire Armand (1998); portrayed on screen by Antonio Banderas, Matthew Newton, and Assad Zaman.
Armenian fable tradition
The Armenian fable tradition is medieval Armenian allegorical fables teaching morals through animals, founded as a literary genre in the late 12th century by Mkhitar Gosh and Vardan Aygektsi.
Armenian novel
The Armenian novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction written in Armenian, which took shape in the mid-nineteenth century, beginning with Khachatur Abovyan's Wounds of Armenia of 1841.
Armor Wars
Armor Wars (originally "Stark Wars") is Marvel's 1987-1988 Iron Man arc, Iron Man #225-232 by Michelinie, Layton, Bright, and Windsor-Smith, in which Tony Stark hunts users of his stolen armor tech; distinct from Armor Wars II and the 2015 Secret Wars series.
Arogya
Arogya (আরোগ্য, "Recovery") is a 1941 collection of Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore, written after his serious illness of 1940 and among the notable works of his final poetic phase.
Arok Dedes
Arok Dedes is a historical novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, first published in 1999, that retells the rise of Ken Arok and Ken Dedes, founders of Singasari in 13th-century Java.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne's adventure novel Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, serialized in Le Temps in 1872: Phileas Fogg's £20,000 Reform Club wager, the date-line day, Detective Fix, and its stage, film, and real-world imitations.
Arrakis
Arrakis, later Rakis, is the desert planet of Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), sole source of the spice melange, home of the Fremen and sandworms, and the keystone of the Dune universe's ecology and economy.
Arrow of God
Arrow of God is a 1964 novel by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, his third, portraying the collision between Igbo religion and British colonial rule in 1920s Nigeria.
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") is a three-book didactic poem by the Roman poet Ovid, published around 1 BC, teaching men seduction in Books 1 and 2 and women in Book 3.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica, also known as the Epistula ad Pisones, is Horace's longest poem, a Latin verse letter to the Piso family giving practical advice on poetry.
Arsena of Marabda
Arsena of Marabda (Arsena Marabdeli) is a historical novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili about the brigand Arsena Odzelashvili and the nineteenth-century Georgian peasant struggle against Russian rule.
Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin, French fictional gentleman thief created by Maurice Leblanc, first appearing 1905 in Je sais tout; distinguished from other gentleman-thief characters by Herlock Sholmes appearances and the Netflix series Lupin.
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur) is a 1907 collection of nine short stories by French writer Maurice Leblanc that introduced Arsène Lupin, the elegant thief of Belle Époque France.
Arte (manga)
Arte (アルテ) is a seinen manga by Kei Ohkubo (大久保圭), serialized in Monthly Comic Zenon 2013–2025, about a noble girl apprenticed to painter Leo in 16th-century Florence; 22 volumes, 2020 Seven Arcs anime directed by Takayuki Hamana.
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer's 2001 fantasy series, follows a 12-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps fairy police officer Holly Short; eight books, 35 million copies, Disney film 2020 and animated series 2026.
Artemis Fowl (novel)
Artemis Fowl, first novel (April 26, 2001) in Eoin Colfer's eight-book series about a 12-year-old Irish criminal mastermind who kidnaps the fairy Holly Short; 35 million copies sold in 48 languages, adapted by Disney in 2020 and as an animated series.
Artful Dodger
The Artful Dodger, real name Jack Dawkins, is Fagin's cleverest boy pickpocket in Dickens's Oliver Twist (1837–39); he recruits Oliver, steals Brownlow's handkerchief, and is transported for life.
Arthamulla Indhu Madham
Arthamulla Indhu Madham (அர்த்தமுள்ள இந்து மதம்) is a Tamil book of spiritual prose by the poet Kannadasan that explains Hinduism's philosophies and rituals in simple language.
Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography
The Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography records the published writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Scottish writer who created Sherlock Holmes, including more than 300 fictions and 24 novels.
Arthur Hastings
Captain Arthur Hastings is Agatha Christie's fictional companion-chronicler of Hercule Poirot, her Watson figure, first appearing in The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) and returning in Curtain (1975); he appears in eight Poirot novels and was played by Hugh Fraser on ITV.
Arwen
Arwen Undómiel (Evenstar), Tolkien's half-elven daughter of Elrond and Celebrían, who marries Aragorn, renounces Elven immortality, and dies in Lothlórien; distinct from other Arwens by her role in The Lord of the Rings.
Arya Stark
Arya Stark is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (1996) and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Maisie Williams. Youngest Stark daughter, the only point-of-view character in every book, trained by the Faceless Men, killer of the Night King, and subject of a reported HBO spinoff.
Aryasaptasati
The Āryāsaptaśatī (आर्यासप्तशती) is a Sanskrit anthology of single-stanza poems, mostly on erotic love, composed by Govardhana, court poet of King Lakṣmaṇasena of Bengal, in the late twelfth century.
As for Me and My House
As for Me and My House is a 1941 novel by Canadian writer Sinclair Ross, a diary kept by a minister's wife during a drought year on the Saskatchewan prairie.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying is William Faulkner's 1930 modernist novel about the Bundren family's nine-day journey to bury Addie in Jefferson, told in 59 stream-of-consciousness monologues by 15 characters, titled from Homer's Odyssey.