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The Glass Essay
"The Glass Essay" is a long poem by the Canadian poet Anne Carson, first published in 1994, that weaves a woman's grief over a lost love with a reading of Emily Brontë.
The Glass Palace
The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh that follows three families in Burma, India, and Malaya from the British invasion of Burma in 1885.
The Gloomy River
The Gloomy River (Ugryum-reka) is a 1933 novel by the Russian Soviet writer Vyacheslav Shishkov about three generations of the Gromov merchant family during the Siberian gold rush.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is L. P. Hartley's 1953 novel about Leo Colston, a boy who carries messages between lovers Marian and Ted Burgess at Brandham Hall, Norfolk, in 1900; famous for its opening line and the Losey-Pinter 1971 Palme d'Or film.
The Goat with Three Kids
The Goat with Three Kids (Capra cu trei iezi) is an 1875 Romanian children's tale by Ion Creangă about a mother goat, her kids, and a wolf.
The God of High School (갓 오브 하이 스쿨)
The God of High School (갓 오브 하이 스쿨) is Park Yongje's Naver Webtoon action series, serialized 2011–2022, about Jin Mori's tournament; adapted by MAPPA as a 2020 Crunchyroll Original anime and into games.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy's 1997 debut novel about twins Estha and Rahel in Ayemenem, Kerala, won the Booker Prize 1997, making Roy the first Indian winner; translated into over 40 languages.
The God That Failed
The God That Failed is a 1949 collection of six autobiographical essays by writers disillusioned with communism, edited by British politician Richard Crossman and conceived with Arthur Koestler.
The Godfather (novel series)
The Godfather novel series: Mario Puzo's 1969 Corleone Mafia novel plus The Sicilian, Winegardner's 2004/2006 sequels, Falco's 2012 prequel, and Trigiani's 2027 Connie.
The Godfather (novel)
The Godfather (novel), Mario Puzo's 1969 Putnam crime novel of the Corleone Mafia family; #1 1969 New York Times bestseller, basis of Coppola's 1972 Oscar-winning film; distinct from the films and sequels.
The Gods of Greece
The Gods of Greece (Die Götter Griechenlandes) is a poem by Friedrich Schiller, first published in 1788, mourning the loss of the god-filled world of Greek antiquity.
The Gold-Bug
"The Gold-Bug" is Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 prize story of pirate treasure, in which William Legrand breaks a Captain Kidd cipher on Sullivan's Island; it was the first fiction to use cryptography and Poe's most successful tale.
The Goldbach Conjecture
The Goldbach Conjecture (哥德巴赫猜想) is an influential 1978 work of reportage by the Chinese writer Xu Chi, portraying the mathematician Chen Jingrun and his work on the Goldbach conjecture.
The Golden Ass
The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus, Metamorphoses) is Apuleius's second-century CE Latin novel in eleven books, the only ancient Roman novel surviving complete, telling of Lucius, transformed into a donkey and saved by Isis.
The Golden Axe and the Silver Axe
The Golden Axe and the Silver Axe (금도끼 은도끼) is a Korean folktale in which an honest woodcutter receives three axes from a mountain spirit, while a greedy liar loses his own.
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl (1904), Henry James's last complete novel, follows Maggie Verver, Prince Amerigo, Adam Verver, and Charlotte Stant; a cracked gilded crystal bowl symbolizes two flawed marriages, told in James's difficult dictated late style.
The Golden Cangue
The Golden Cangue (金锁记) is a 1943 novella by Eileen Chang, first published in Shanghai, following Cao Qiqiao as her frustrated desires harden into cruelty toward her own children.
The Golden Demon
The Golden Demon (Konjiki yasha) is an unfinished serial novel by Ozaki Kōyō, published from 1897 to 1902 and one of Meiji Japan's bestselling works.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by Doris Lessing in which writer Anna Wulf keeps four color-coded notebooks she tries to combine into one golden notebook.
The Golden Pot
The Golden Pot (Der goldne Topf) is an 1814 novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann in which the Dresden student Anselmus is drawn into a magical world.
The Golden Road
The Golden Road (金光大道) is a four-volume novel by the Chinese writer Hao Ran about agricultural collectivization in an eastern Hebei village in the early 1950s.
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is a 2024 history book by William Dalrymple arguing ancient India was central to Eurasian trade and culture.
The Golden Serpent
The Golden Serpent is the English title shared by several works, best known the 1935 novel La serpiente de oro by Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, set on the Marañón River.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is the first poetry collection of Indian poet and political leader Sarojini Naidu, published in London in 1905 with an introduction by Arthur Symons.
The Golden Treasury
The Golden Treasury is an anthology of English lyric poetry compiled by Francis Turner Palgrave with Alfred Tennyson's advice, first published by Macmillan in 1861 and standard for over a century.
The Goldfinch (novel)
The Goldfinch (2013) is Donna Tartt's third novel: Theo Decker, 13, survives a Metropolitan Museum bombing that kills his mother and takes Fabritius's 1654 painting. Pulitzer Prize 2014; 771 pages; 2019 film flopped.
The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague (Nifle'ot Maharal) is a 1909 Hebrew tale collection by Yehudah Yudl Rosenberg about the Maharal's golem.
The Golet in the Valley
The Golet in the Valley (Czech: Golet v údolí) is a 1937 book of three linked stories by Ivan Olbracht about a Jewish village in Subcarpathian Ruthenia.
The Golovlyov Family
The Golovlyov Family (Russian: Господа Головлёвы, Gospoda Golovlyovy) is an 1880 novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, generally regarded as his magnum opus, chronicling the decline and extinction of a family of Russian landowners.
The Good Earth
The Good Earth (1931), Pearl S. Buck's second novel, follows Chinese farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-lan from famine to wealth; Pulitzer 1932, Nobel 1938 basis, bestselling US book 1931-1932, MGM film 1937.