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Ballade des dames du temps jadis
Ballade des dames du temps jadis is a 15th-century Middle French poem by François Villon asking what became of celebrated women, with the refrain "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"
Ballade des pendus
The Ballade des pendus is a Middle French poem by François Villon, written in the voice of corpses on a gibbet who ask the living for pity and prayers.
Ballads and Romances
Ballads and Romances, Polish Ballady i romanse, is a cycle of fourteen narrative poems by Adam Mickiewicz, published in Vilnius in 1822 and taken as the beginning of Polish Romanticism.
Baloo
Baloo is the bear in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), likely a sloth bear, Mowgli's strict teacher of jungle law; Disney's 1967 Phil Harris version made him a fun-loving icon of "The Bare Necessities."
Baltasar and Blimunda
Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento) is a 1982 historical novel by José Saramago about a soldier, a woman with second sight, and a flying machine in 18th-century Portugal.
Baluta
Baluta (बलुतं) is a 1978 autobiographical novel by the Marathi writer Daya Pawar, credited as the first Dalit autobiography in Marathi and a founding text of the Dalit autobiographical genre in India.
Balyakalasakhi
Balyakalasakhi (ബാല്യകാലസഖി), meaning "childhood friend", is a 1944 Malayalam tragic love novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, his most popular novel and the first major Malayalam work to portray Muslim customs.
Bambi, a Life in the Woods
Bambi, a Life in the Woods (Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde) is Felix Salten's 1923 Austrian adult novel about a roe deer, translated by Whittaker Chambers in 1928, banned by the Nazis, and adapted into Disney's 1942 film.
Banaag at Sikat
Banaag at Sikat, translated as Radiance and Sunrise, is a 1906 Tagalog novel by Lope K. Santos that dramatizes labor exploitation through a poor-boy-rich-girl love plot.
Banabhatta ki Atmakatha
Banabhatta ki Atmakatha (बाणभट्ट की आत्मकथा) is a 1946 Hindi novel by Hazariprasad Dwivedi that imagines the autobiography of Bāṇa, the seventh-century Sanskrit author of the Harshacharita.
Banalata Sen
Banalata Sen (বনলতা সেন) is a Bengali poem by Jibanananda Das, first published in 1935 and the title of his third poetry collection, which appeared in 1942.
Bananaman
Bananaman is a British comic-strip superhero parody, created in 1980 for DC Thomson's comic Nutty, in which schoolboy Eric Wimp becomes a hero by eating a banana.
Banat Su'ad
Banat Su'ad (بانت سعاد), also known as Qaṣīdat al-Burda, is a classical Arabic ode in praise of the Prophet Muhammad by the poet Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr.
Banat-un-Nash
Banat-un-Nash (بنات النعش), translated as Daughters of the Bier, is an 1872 Urdu novel by Deputy Nazir Ahmad, the sequel to his Mirat-ul-Uroos, written to promote the education of Muslim girls.
Bandar-log
Bandar-log (Hindi: बन्दर-लोग, "monkey people") are Kipling's lawless, leaderless Monkey-People in The Jungle Book (1894), who kidnap Mowgli to the Cold Lairs in "Kaa's Hunting" and fear only the python Kaa; unlike the 1967 Disney monkeys, they have no king.
Bandarshah
Bandarshah (بندر شاه) is a two-part novel by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, published in Arabic as Daw' al-Bayt (1971) and Maryud (1976) and set in the village of Wad Hamid.
Bandersnatch
The bandersnatch is a ferocious, extremely fast fictional creature invented by Lewis Carroll, first mentioned in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and his 1874 poem The Hunting of the Snark.
Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan
Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan (ബന്ധനസ്ഥനായ അനിരുദ്ധൻ, "Aniruddhan in Prison") is a 1914 Malayalam khandakavya by Vallathol Narayana Menon that retells the Puranic love story of Usha and Aniruddha.
Bang-e-Dara
Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا, "the call of the caravan bell") is the first Urdu poetry collection of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1924 and including "Sare Jahan Se Achha" and Shikwa.
Bánh trôi nước
Bánh trôi nước is a four-line Nôm poem by Hồ Xuân Hương that describes a boiled rice cake and, by double meaning, the fate of Vietnamese women.
Banished from the Hero's Party
Banished from the Hero's Party (真の仲間じゃないと勇者のパーティーを追い出されたので、辺境でスローライフすることにしました) is a Japanese slow-life fantasy light novel by Zappon and Yasumo, 15 volumes, 2018–2025, about Red, expelled from the Hero's party, running an apothecary in Zoltan with Rit; adapted into manga and TV anime, published in English by Yen Press.
Banquo
Banquo is a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth: a Scottish general and Thane of Lochaber, Macbeth's friend turned victim. Prophecy says his descendants will be kings; murdered by Macbeth, he haunts the banquet as a ghost and was recast from Holinshed's accomplice to flatter James I.
Bao Gong An
Bao Gong An (包公案) is a Ming-dynasty collection of Chinese court-case fiction about the Song official Bao Zheng judging crimes, considered the earliest Chinese detective-fiction collection.
Baotown
Baotown (小鲍庄) is a 1985 novella by the Chinese writer Wang Anyi, set in a Huaibei plain village and regarded as a representative work of the root-seeking movement.
Baptism at the Savica
Baptism at the Savica (Krst pri Savica) is an 1836 narrative poem by the Slovene poet France Prešeren, generally treated as the national epic of Slovene literature.
Barahmasa
Barahmasa (बारहमासा, "twelve months") is a song and poetic genre of the Indian subcontinent in which the twelve months are described through a woman's longing for her absent beloved.
Barbapapa
Barbapapa (バーバパパ) is a French children's picture-book series created in 1970 by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, about a pink shape-shifting character, his wife Barbamama, and seven colored children; translated into over 30 languages.
Barbarian in the Garden
Barbarian in the Garden (Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie) is a 1962 collection of ten essays by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert on European art and culture.
Barbarika (बर्बरीक)
Barbarika (बर्बरीक), also Barbarīk, is a Mahabharata-tradition warrior, grandson of Bhima and son of Ghatotkacha, worshipped as Khatu Shyam Ji at Khatu, Rajasthan; known for his three arrows, his vow to aid the losing side, and his sheesh daan (gift of head) to Krishna.
Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers is an 1857 novel by Anthony Trollope, the second of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, satirizing clerical conflict in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester.