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Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones is Stephen King's 1998 Scribner ghost novel about widowed novelist Mike Noonan, his Maine lakeside house Sara Laughs, a custody battle, and the title's origin in Thomas Hardy.
Bagagem
Bagagem is the 1976 debut poetry collection of Brazilian writer Adélia Prado, endorsed by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and counted among the finest first books in Brazilian poetry.
Bagh-o-Bahar
Bagh-o-Bahar (باغ و بہار; "Garden and Spring") is an Urdu prose tale by Mir Amman, first published in 1804 and treated as a founding work of modern Urdu prose.
Bagheera (बघीरा)
Bagheera (बघीरा, Baghīrā) is the black panther in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895); born in captivity at Oodeypore, he buys Mowgli's life with a bull and mentors him with Baloo, voiced by Sebastian Cabot (1967) and Ben Kingsley (2016).
Bahar-i Danish
Bahar-i Danish (بهار دانش, "Spring of Knowledge") is a Persian collection of romantic tales compiled in 1651 by the Mughal writer ʻInayat Allah Kamboh for Shah Jahan's court.
Baharistan
Baharistan (بهارستان) is an anecdotal Persian work in prose and verse by Jami, completed in 1487 and written as a textbook for his son in imitation of Sadi's Golestan.
Bài ca ngất ngưởng
Bài ca ngất ngưởng ("Song of the Lofty and Unsteady") is a Vietnamese poem in the hát nói form, written by the poet and official Nguyễn Công Trứ after 1848.
Bai Ganyo
Bai Ganyo, also transliterated Bay Ganyo, is the hero of Aleko Konstantinov's 1895 Bulgarian book, a rose-oil salesman whose misadventures in Europe made him a lasting figure in Bulgarian literature.
Bai Niangzi Yongzhen Leifeng Ta
Bai Niangzi Yongzhen Leifeng Ta (The White Lady Is Forever Imprisoned under Leifeng Pagoda) is a late-Ming huaben by Feng Menglong, the earliest relatively complete version of the White Snake legend.
Baidehisha Vilasa
Baidehisha Vilasa (ବୈଦେହୀଶ ବିଳାସ) is a seventeenth-century Odia kavya by Upendra Bhanja, a landmark of Odia literature that retells the Ramayana with erotic sentiment at its center.
Baishi Daoren Gequ
Baishi Daoren Gequ (白石道人歌曲) is a collection of songs and lyrics by Southern Song poet-composer Jiang Kui, the only Song ci collection surviving with musical notation.
Baital Pachisi
Baital Pachisi (बैताल पचीसी; Sanskrit Vetālapañcaviṃśati), also known as Betal Pachisi, is an Indian frame-story collection of twenty-five riddle tales told by a vetala to King Vikramāditya.
Baka and Test (バカとテストと召喚獣)
Baka and Test is a comedic school light novel series by Kenji Inoue and Yui Haga, first published under Famitsu Bunko in 2007 and adapted into anime.
Bakhtrioni
Bakhtrioni (ბახტრიონი) is an 1892 epic poem by the Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela recounting the 1659 uprising of the people of Kakheti against Persian rule, in which Georgian highlanders stormed the Bakhtrioni fortress.
Bakulkatha
Bakulkatha (বকুলকথা, "Bakul's Story") is a 1974 Bengali novel by Ashapurna Devi, completing her trilogy on three generations of Bengali women, centering on Bakul, granddaughter of Subarnalata.
Bal w operze
Bal w operze (A Ball at the Opera) is a satirical verse narrative by Polish poet Julian Tuwim, caricaturing the Sanacja regime elite, written in 1936.
Bal-e-Jibril
Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل; "Gabriel's Wing") is the second Urdu poetry collection of Muhammad Iqbal, published in Lahore in 1935 and widely regarded as the peak of his Urdu verse.
Balade Petrice Kerempuha
Balade Petrice Kerempuha (The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh) is a 1936 poetry collection in Kajkavian Croatian by Miroslav Krleža, narrated by the folk trickster Petrica Kerempuh.
Balaramayana
Balaramayana (Bālarāmāyaṇa) is a ten-act Sanskrit drama by the poet Rājaśekhara, generally regarded as his first play, retelling Rama's story from Valmiki's Ramayana and first staged at Mahendrapāla's court.
Balchanma
Balchanma (बलचनमा) is a 1952 Hindi novel by Nagarjun, narrated in the first person by a poor farm laborer and counted among the foundational Hindi regional novels.
Baldus
Baldus is a mock-epic poem in macaronic Latin hexameters by the Italian poet Teofilo Folengo, writing as Merlin Cocai, regarded as the masterpiece of the macaronic genre.
Balin (Middle-earth)
Balin, son of Fundin, is a Dwarf of Durin's Folk in Tolkien's Middle-earth: a member of Thorin's Company in The Hobbit, Bilbo's closest Dwarf friend, later Lord of Moria, killed by an Orc arrow in T.A. 2994 and found entombed in the Chamber of Mazarbul by the Fellowship.
Ballad of Beautiful Women
Ballad of Beautiful Women (Lì Rén Xíng, 丽人行) is a satirical narrative poem by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written in 753 about the Yang family's extravagance.
Ballad of Mulan
The Ballad of Mulan (木蘭辭) is an anonymous Chinese folk ballad of the Northern Dynasties about a woman who serves in the army in her father's place.
Ballad of the Army Carts
Ballad of the Army Carts (Bing che xing, 兵車行) is a narrative poem by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written around 751, protesting conscription for frontier wars.
Ballad of the East Gate
Ballad of the East Gate (Dongmen xing, 东门行) is an anonymous Han-dynasty yuefu ballad about a poor man who resolves on a desperate course despite his wife's pleas.
Ballad of the Two Grandfathers
Ballad of the Two Grandfathers (Balada de los dos abuelos) is a 1934 poem by Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, spoken through the shadows of his black and white grandfathers.
Ballad of the West Gate
Ballad of the West Gate (西门行, "West Gate Ballad") is an anonymous Han dynasty yuefu ballad, a classic example of Chinese carpe diem poetry about life's brevity.
Ballad of the White Horse
The Ballad of the White Horse (白马篇) is a 28-line poem by the Three Kingdoms poet Cao Zhi celebrating a young frontier knight-errant devoted to defending the state.
Ballad of Xizhou
The Ballad of Xizhou (Xizhou qu, 西洲曲) is an anonymous lyric folk song of the Southern Dynasties (420–589) yuefu tradition, the longest such lyric preserved, describing a woman's longing for her absent lover.