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August 1914
August 1914 (Avgust Chetyrnadtsatogo, Август Четырнадцатого) is a historical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in Paris in 1971, reconstructing Russia's first month of the First World War.
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is a twelve-line 1951 poem by Adrienne Rich, about a woman who embroiders fearless tigers while weighed down by an oppressive marriage.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (La tía Julia y el escribidor) is a 1977 novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, his fifth and most autobiographical.
Aur Ant Mein Prarthana
Aur Ant Mein Prarthana (और अंत में प्रार्थना) is a Hindi short-story collection by Uday Prakash, written in the kissagoi tradition, where one story is made of many stories.
Aurora Leigh
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 nine-book blank verse novel-poem (also called a verse novel), traces a woman poet's growth from Florence to London and became a feminist-recovered classic.
Aurora Teagarden
Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, Charlaine Harris's librarian sleuth of the Lawrenceton, Georgia mystery novels (Real Murders, 1990, through Sleep Like a Baby, 2017), also the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film franchise starring Candace Cameron Bure and, from 2023, Skyler Samuels.
Australian Aboriginal poetry movement
The Australian Aboriginal poetry movement is the written verse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, published since Oodgeroo Noonuccal's pioneering 1964 collection We Are Going.
Authority (novel)
Authority (2014) is Jeff VanderMeer's second Southern Reach novel, published May 6, 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A New York Times bestseller, it shifts the series from Area X to the agency's headquarters, where new director John Rodriguez, called Control, navigates bureaucratic horror.
Autobiographical novel
An autobiographical novel is a novel in which the author draws substantially on events from his or her own life, presented as fiction rather than factual account.
Autobiography at Forty
Autobiography at Forty (Sishi zishu, 四十自述) is the autobiography of the Chinese scholar Hu Shih, covering his youth up to his departure for study in the United States.
Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Anne Carson's 1998 Knopf book, reimagines the Stesichoros Geryon myth as a queer coming-of-age love story; sequel Red Doc>.
Autocracy, Inc.
Autocracy, Inc. (2024) is Anne Applebaum's book arguing modern autocracies (China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela) form a deal-based network bound by power, wealth, and impunity, not ideology; Pulitzer-winning author, Doubleday, NYT bestseller, Women's Prize longlist.
Autofiction
Autofiction is a form of fiction in which an author writes about their own life under their own name, a term coined by Serge Doubrovsky in 1977.
Autumn Meditations
Autumn Meditations (秋興八首, Qiuxing bashou, also translated Autumn Thoughts) is a cycle of eight regulated-verse poems written by the Tang poet Du Fu in 766.
Autumn Quail
Autumn Quail (al-Summān wa-al-kharīf, السمان والخريف) is a 1962 novel by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz following Isa al-Dabbagh, a young Wafd Party official stripped of purpose by Egypt's 1952 revolution.
Autumn Thoughts (Tian Jing Sha)
Autumn Thoughts (天净沙·秋思, Qiu Si) is a 28-character Yuan-dynasty sanqu song conventionally attributed to Ma Zhiyuan, depicting a heartbroken traveler at dusk through nine verbless images; praised in 1324 as the "ancestor of autumn thoughts."
Autumn Wind Song
Autumn Wind Song (Qiufeng ci, 秋風辭) is a nine-line Chinese verse attributed to Emperor Wu of Han, lamenting aging during a banquet on the Fen River.
Avadana
Avadana (Sanskrit: अवदान) is a Buddhist narrative genre in which stories of an individual's religiously significant deeds demonstrate karma and faith, composed in India from about the second century BCE.
Avadanashataka
Avadanashataka (Avadānaśataka, "century of noble deeds") is a Sanskrit collection of 100 Buddhist avadāna legends in mixed prose and verse, affiliated with the Sarvāstivāda school and probably composed around the 2nd century CE.
Avalovara
Avalovara is a 1973 novel by the Brazilian writer Osman Lins, an experimental masterwork structured on a spiral moving across the SATOR magic square.
Avantisundarikatha
Avantisundarikatha (अवन्तिसुन्दरीकथा), also called the Avantisundari, is a Sanskrit prose romance attributed to the South Indian poet Dandin (late-seventh to early-eighth century CE), telling the love story of Rajavahana and Avantisundari and surviving only in fragments.
Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise
The Promise is the 2012 Dark Horse graphic novel trilogy by Gene Luen Yang with Avatar creators DiMartino and Konietzko, art by Gurihiru, continuing Avatar: The Last Airbender after the war and founding Republic City's roots.
Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rise of Kyoshi
The Rise of Kyoshi (2019) is a young adult fantasy novel by F. C. Yee with Michael Dante DiMartino, first of the Chronicles of the Avatar series, telling Avatar Kyoshi's origin: humble Earth Kingdom beginnings, the Flying Opera Company, Jianzhu, and Rangi, published by Amulet Books.
Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Search
The Search is Dark Horse's second Avatar: The Last Airbender comic trilogy by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, revealing the fate of Zuko's mother Ursa after the animated series finale.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (comics)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (comics) are official Dark Horse graphic novels continuing the Nickelodeon animated series after its finale, written mainly by Gene Luen Yang, spanning trilogies like The Promise and The Search, standalone one-shots, and chibi comics set before The Legend of Korra.
Avenger (pulp-magazine character)
The Avenger (Richard Henry Benson) is a Street & Smith pulp crimefighter created by Paul Ernst as Kenneth Robeson, running 24 issues from September 1939 to September 1942; distinguished from The Shadow and Doc Savage by Benson's white, malleable face and the Justice, Inc. team, and revived in 1970s Warner paperbacks and DC and Dynamite comics.
Avengers (comics)
The Avengers are a Marvel Comics superhero team created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, starting with Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, and the Wasp.
Avengers Disassembled
Avengers Disassembled is Marvel's 2004 Avengers #500–503 storyline by Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch, in which the Scarlet Witch's breakdown destroys the team, ending the series and launching New Avengers and House of M.
Avengers vs. X-Men
Avengers vs. X-Men (AvX) is Marvel's 2012, 12-issue comic crossover in which the Avengers and X-Men war over the Phoenix Force and Hope Summers, creating the Phoenix Five and leading to Uncanny Avengers.
Avimaraka
Avimaraka (अविमारकम्) is a six-act Sanskrit play attributed to the ancient dramatist Bhāsa, a folk-based love story of prince Avimaraka and Kurangi, dominated by the erotic sentiment.