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The Nirvana of the Phoenixes
The Nirvana of the Phoenixes (凤凰涅槃) is a 1920 lyric poem by Chinese poet Guo Moruo, in which phoenixes burn and are reborn, symbolizing a new China.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is Alexander McCall Smith's 1998 novel and series about Mma Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first female-run detective agency in Gaborone; over 20 million English copies, 46 languages, BBC/HBO 2008 adaptation.
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time, also known as Shum vremeni, is a 1925 book of autobiographical prose by Osip Mandelstam, recalling his childhood in St. Petersburg through fourteen short essays.
The North Water (TV series)
The North Water (2021) is a five-part BBC Two and AMC+ miniseries written and directed by Andrew Haigh, adapted from Ian McGuire's 2016 novel, starring Jack O'Connell and Colin Farrell in an 1859 Arctic whaling thriller filmed on Svalbard at 81 degrees north.
The Nose (Нос) (Gogol short story)
The Nose (Нос) is Gogol's 1836 satirical absurdist story in which Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov's nose leaves his face and lives as a state councillor; published in Pushkin's Sovremennik, later an opera by Shostakovich.
The Notebook (novel)
The Notebook (1996) is Nicholas Sparks's debut romance novel, published by Warner Books. Noah and Allie fall in love in 1932 New Bern, North Carolina, reunite in 1946, and a nursing-home frame shows old age. 56 weeks on the NYT list; 2004 film; 2024 Broadway musical.
The Notebook Trilogy
The Notebook Trilogy: Le grand cahier, La preuve, Le troisième mensonge (1986–1991), three French-language novels by Hungarian-born Ágota Kristóf following twins Claus and Lucas through war and divided Europe.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) is a 1910 prose work by Rainer Maria Rilke, his only novel, following a young Danish poet in Paris.
The Novellas of Matteo Bandello
The Novellas of Matteo Bandello, or Novelle, are a collection of 214 Italian prose stories, first published in 1554, whose tale of Romeo and Juliet supplied Shakespeare's plot.
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale, a beast fable in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Fragment VII), tells how rooster Chaunticleer escapes a fox; based on Marie de France's Del cok e del gupil and the Roman de Renart, told in mock-heroic style.
The Oak and the Calf
The Oak and the Calf (Бодался телёнок с дубом) is a memoir by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn covering his literary life in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s until his 1974 expulsion.
The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power
The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power (無自覚聖女は今日も無意識に力を垂れ流す), also sold as Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along!, is a Japanese light novel series by Almond about Carolina Sanchez, a supposedly magicless noblewoman whose unconscious holy power exceeds her Saint sister Flora's; it spawned a Yona Etou manga and a 2026 twelve-episode Magic Bus anime.
The Obscene Bird of Night
The Obscene Bird of Night (El obsceno pájaro de la noche) is a 1970 novel by the Chilean writer José Donoso, regarded as his masterpiece and a landmark of the Latin American Boom.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman. It tells the story of a man recalling a supernatural childhood adventure in rural Sussex.
The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
Emily Wilson's 2017 W. W. Norton translation of Homer's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), the first published English version by a woman, in iambic pentameter with the same line count, rendering polytropos as 'complicated'.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is a 33,333-line verse sequel to Homer's Odyssey by Nikos Kazantzakis, continuing Odysseus's story from his return to Greece to his death.
The Ogre's Bride
The Ogre's Bride (Oni no Hanayome) is a Japanese romantic fantasy light novel series by Kureha, about a schoolgirl claimed as bride by an oni.
The Old Charcoal Seller
The Old Charcoal Seller (卖炭翁, Mai tan weng) is a Tang dynasty narrative poem by Bai Juyi, telling of an old charcoal seller whose cart is seized by palace eunuchs in Chang'an.
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop is Charles Dickens's fourth novel, serialized weekly in Master Humphrey's Clock (25 April 1840–6 February 1841). It follows Little Nell and her grandfather fleeing the moneylender Quilp; Nell's death made it a 100,000-a-week sensation but left the novel critically eclipsed.
The Old Drift
The Old Drift is the 2019 debut novel of Zambian writer Namwali Serpell, a multigenerational epic following three intertwined families from colonial Rhodesia to near-future Zambia.
The Old English Baron
The Old English Baron is a Gothic novel by Clara Reeve, first published in 1777 and considered the second Gothic novel and the first by a woman.
The Old Garden
The Old Garden (오래된 정원) is a 2000 novel by South Korean writer Hwang Sok-yong about two lovers whose lives are shaped by Korea's 1980s democracy movement.
The Old Gringo
The Old Gringo (Spanish: Gringo viejo) is a 1985 novel by Carlos Fuentes that imagines Ambrose Bierce's final days after he crossed into Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
The Old Gypsy
The Old Gypsy (Hungarian: A vén cigány) is a rhapsodic lyric poem by the Hungarian poet Vörösmarty Mihály, written in 1854 and considered his last completed lyric work.
The Old Life
The Old Life (老生) is a 2014 novel by Chinese writer Jia Pingwa, retelling a century of modern Chinese history through a funeral singer's voice in Shaanxi.
The Old Man and the Medal
The Old Man and the Medal is a 1956 satirical novel by Cameroonian writer Ferdinand Oyono about an old villager whose medal from France ends in humiliation.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea (El viejo y el mar), Hemingway's 1952 novella of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, and his marlin; first published in Life, won the 1953 Pulitzer and anchored the 1954 Nobel Prize.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
The Old Regime and the Revolution (L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution) is an 1856 essay by Alexis de Tocqueville examining the origins of the French Revolution.
The Old Wives' Tale
The Old Wives' Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett, generally considered his masterpiece, following sisters Constance and Sophia Baines from girlhood to death.
The One and Only Ivan
The One and Only Ivan: Katherine Applegate's 2012 Newbery Medal-winning children's novel (Harper), narrated by a captive silverback gorilla in a Tacoma mall circus; basis of the 2020 Disney+ film with Sam Rockwell and Bryan Cranston.