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Tanci

Tanci (弹词, "plucking rhymes") is a Chinese chantefable genre in which verse is sung to plucked lute accompaniment, existing as oral storytelling and as fiction written chiefly for reading.

Tang Caizi Zhuan

Tang Caizi Zhuan (唐才子傳), "Biographies of Talented Men of the Tang," is a collection of biographies of Tang and Five Dynasties poets completed by Xin Wenfang in 1304.

Tang chuanqi

Tang chuanqi (唐传奇, "transmissions of the marvelous") are classical Chinese short tales written during the Tang dynasty (618–907), when Chinese fiction first became a deliberate literary art.

Tang Yulin

Tang Yulin (唐語林) is a Northern Song collection of over 1,100 anecdotes about the Tang dynasty, compiled by Wang Dang and valued as a historical source.

Tangi

Tangi is a 1973 novel by New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera, the first published by a Māori author, about a young man's homecoming for his father's funeral.

Tangsir

Tangsir (تنگسیر) is a 1963 Persian novel by Sadeq Chubak, set in Bushehr and Tangestan in the late Qajar era, telling of a poor laborer who takes revenge on the notables who swindled him.

Tank Chair (戦車椅子-TANK)

Tank Chair (戦車椅子-TANK CHAIR-) is an ongoing action sci-fi manga by Manabu Yashiro, serialized in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket from 2022 and Monthly Shonen Sirius; 11 volumes, 1 million copies, with a Polygon Pictures anime premiering October 4, 2026.

Tank Girl

Tank Girl is a British comic series created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, first published in 1988 in Deadline. It follows Rebecca Buck, a tank-driving punk antiheroine with a kangaroo boyfriend, Booga, and inspired riot grrrl feminism and the 1995 Lori Petty film.

Tankōbon (単行本)

Tankōbon (単行本) is the Japanese term for a standalone book, and in manga publishing the standard collected volume, about 200 pages, gathering serialized magazine chapters; distinct from bunkobon and kanzenban editions.

Tantei shōsetsu

Tantei shōsetsu (探偵小説, "detective fiction") is the Japanese term for fiction whose main plot is the elucidation of a mystery by logic, established in Meiji-era Japan.

Tantri Kamandaka

Tantri Kamandaka, also known as Tantricarita or Tantravakya, is an Old Javanese prose collection of animal fables adapted from the Indian Pañcatantra, one of the oldest surviving works of Old Javanese literature.

Tapaswini

Tapaswini (Odia: ତପସ୍ୱିନୀ) is a 1912 epic narrative poem in Odia by Gangadhar Meher, retelling Sita's life from her banishment to her sons' reunion with Rama.

Tar Saptak

Tar Saptak (तार सप्तक) is a 1943 anthology of poems by seven young Hindi poets, edited by Agyeya and treated as the start of modernism in Hindi literature.

Tarana-e-Milli

Tarana-e-Milli (ترانۂ ملی, "Anthem of the Community") is an Urdu poem by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, written in 1910 as a companion piece to his patriotic Tarana-e-Hindi.

Taras Bulba (Тарас Бульба)

Taras Bulba (Тарас Бульба) is Nikolai Gogol's 1835 historical tale of a Zaporozhian Cossack and his sons Ostap and Andriy, reworked in 1842 from nine to twelve chapters; adapted in seven countries.

Tarde o temprano

Tarde o temprano is the book under which Mexican poet José Emilio Pacheco collected his complete poetry, first published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1980.

Tardiyya

Tardiyya (الطرديّة; plural ṭardiyyāt) is a genre of classical Arabic poetry devoted to the hunt, first written as independent poems in the Abbasid period by Abu Nuwas and other court poets.

Targhibat

Targhibat is a work attributed to Fuzuli (Muhammed Süleyman oğlu), the 16th-century Turkic poet of Kerbela, though standard surveys of his roughly fifteen works omit the title.

Târih-i Kadîm

Târih-i Kadîm ("Ancient History") is a 212-line philosophical-satirical poem by the Ottoman poet Tevfik Fikret, written in 1905 and published anonymously in 1912, criticizing history, war, and religion's entanglement with power.

Tarikh-i Alfi

Tarikh-i Alfi (تاریخ الفی), also called the Millennial History, is a Persian-language world history commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar to cover the first millennium of the Islamic era.

Tarikh-i Bidari-yi Iranian

Tarikh-i Bidari-yi Iranian (تاریخ بیداری ایرانیان, "The History of the Awakening of the Iranians") is a Persian chronicle of Iran's Constitutional Revolution written by Nazim al-Islam Kermani from roughly 1905 to 1909.

Tarikh-i Rashidi

Tarikh-i Rashidi (تاریخ رشیدی) is a Persian chronicle of the Moghul khans of Central Asia, written by Mirza Muhammad Haydar Dughlat in Kashmir in 1541–1546.

Tarjuman al-Ashwaq

Tarjuman al-Ashwaq (ترجمان الأشواق, "The Interpreter of Desires") is a collection of mystical love odes in Arabic by Ibn Arabi, composed in Mecca in 1202.

Taro Sakamoto

Taro Sakamoto (坂本太郎) is the protagonist of Yuto Suzuki's manga Sakamoto Days: once the world's greatest hitman, he retired after marrying Aoi, gained weight, and runs a convenience store, defending his family under a no-killing rule when a $1 billion bounty draws him back.

Tartarin of Tarascon

Tartarin of Tarascon is an 1872 satirical novel by the French writer Alphonse Daudet about a boastful hunter from Tarascon, Provence, whose grandiose fantasies of heroism collide with reality.

Tarzan

Tarzan, also John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, is Edgar Rice Burroughs's jungle hero first published in All-Story Magazine in 1912; raised by apes in Africa, hero of 26 novels, adapted in dozens of films, partly in the US public domain as of 2026.

Tarzan (book series)

Tarzan book series: Edgar Rice Burroughs's 24 adventure novels beginning with Tarzan of the Apes (All-Story Magazine, October 1912; book 1914), starring John Clayton, Lord Greystoke; early books US public domain, name trademarked by ERB Inc.

Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs's October 1912 All-Story story (book 1914), introduces Tarzan, the English heir John Clayton raised by apes in Africa, origin of a multi-novel franchise, film series, comics, and copyright and postcolonial debates.

Tắt đèn

Tắt đèn (Turning Off the Lights) is a 1937 novel by Vietnamese writer Ngô Tất Tố, a landmark of critical realism depicting a peasant family's ruin under French colonial taxes.

Tatooine

Tatooine: the fictional twin-sunned desert planet of Star Wars, home of Luke and Anakin Skywalker, filmed in Tunisia and named after Tataouine; real analog Kepler-16b.