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Though the Tortoise Lives Long
"Though the Tortoise Lives Long" (龟虽寿, Gui Sui Shou) is a four-character yuefu poem by Cao Cao, written around 208 on his return from the northern campaign against the Wuhuan.
Thought Police
Thought Police: the secret police of Oceania in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Newspeak thinkpol, which punishes thoughtcrime via telescreens and informers; also a figurative English term for any group controlling what others think.
Thoughts in the Library
Thoughts in the Library (Gondolatok a könyvtárban) is an 1844 philosophical poem by the Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty, written for the opening of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences library.
Thousand Character Classic (千字文)
The Thousand Character Classic (千字文, Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem of 1,000 unrepeated characters, used since the sixth century as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children.
Thranduil
Thranduil, the Elvenking of The Hobbit, is Tolkien's Sindarin king of the Silvan Elves of the Woodland Realm in northern Mirkwood, son of Oropher and father of Legolas, later played by Lee Pace in Jackson's films.
Thrawn trilogy
The Thrawn Trilogy is Timothy Zahn's three-novel Star Wars Legends series, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command (Bantam Spectra, 1991-1993), set in 9 ABY, which introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn and Mara Jade and jump-started the expanded universe.
Three Conversations
Three Conversations (Три разговора) is Vladimir Solovyov's last philosophical work, a 1900 dialogue on war, evil, and peace ending with a Short Story of the Antichrist.
Three Day Road
Three Day Road is a 2005 historical novel by Joseph Boyden about two Cree snipers in the First World War and the aunt who receives one home.
Three Drops of Blood
Three Drops of Blood (Persian: Se qatra khun) is a 1932 collection of eleven short stories by Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat, whose psychological title story is a precursor to The Blind Owl.
Three Guineas
Three Guineas is a 1938 book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, written as a reply to a man asking how war can be prevented and linking patriarchy with militarism.
Three Hundred Tang Poems
Three Hundred Tang Poems (唐诗三百首) is a Chinese anthology of Tang poetry compiled in 1763 by Qing dynasty scholar Sun Zhu, pen name Hengtang Tuishi.
Three Investigators
The Three Investigators, created by Robert Arthur in 1964, are juvenile detectives Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews; known in Germany as Die drei ???, where the Kosmos series and Hamburg audio plays have run since 1968 and 1979.
Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 comic novel about J., George, Harris, and Montmorency the dog on a Thames boating holiday; begun as a travel guide, it sold some 200,000 copies by 1909 and has never been out of print.
Three Officials and Three Partings
Three Officials and Three Partings (三吏三别) is a group of six poems written by the Tang poet Du Fu in 759, recording wartime conscription during the An Lushan Rebellion.
Three Tales
Three Tales (Trois contes) is an 1877 collection of three stories by the French writer Gustave Flaubert, the only short-fiction collection issued in his lifetime.
Three Witches
Three Witches, or Weird Sisters (First Folio "weyward"), the three prophesying figures in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606), drawn from Holinshed's Chronicles, creators of Macbeth's fatal prophecy and a staging touchstone for four centuries of productions.
Three Years
Three Years (Три года) is a long story by Anton Chekhov, written in 1894 and published in Russkaya Mysl in 1895, about the Moscow merchant Alexei Laptev and his wife Yulia.
Three-act structure
Three-act structure: setup, confrontation, resolution narrative model, also called Field's Paradigm after Syd Field's Screenplay (1979); distinguished from Freytag's five-part pyramid and Thompson's four-act film model.
Three-volume novel
Three-volume novel (triple-decker, three-decker): a single novel published in three volumes, the prestige British format from Scott's Kenilworth (1821) at 31s 6d until Mudie's and W. H. Smith's 1894 price ultimatum ended it.
Thriller (genre)
Thriller (genre): fiction, film, and television built on suspense, tension, and high stakes, distinct from mystery by live danger rather than a solved past crime; subgenres include psychological, spy, legal, political, medical, and techno-thrillers.
Throne of Glass
Throne of Glass is Sarah J. Maas's eight-book high-fantasy series (Bloomsbury, 2012-2018) about assassin Celaena Sardothien in Erilea, begun as the FictionPress story Queen of Glass and a foundation of the romantasy boom.
Through the Looking-Glass
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871, dated 1872) is Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a chess-structured mirror-world fantasy with Tenniel illustrations and the poem Jabberwocky.
Thu ẩm
Thu ẩm ("Drinking wine in autumn") is a Nôm poem by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Khuyến, one of three famous autumn poems written after he retired to his home village.
Thu điếu
Thu điếu, also titled Câu cá mùa thu, is a Nôm poem by Nguyễn Khuyến depicting a lone fisherman on a small autumn pond in the Red River Delta.
Thu vịnh
Thu vịnh is a Vietnamese autumn poem in classical Đường-law form by Nguyễn Khuyến (1835–1909), one of three famous autumn poems set in the Red River delta countryside.
Thumbelina
Thumbelina (Danish: Tommelise) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1835 literary fairy tale of a thumb-sized girl born from a flower, kidnapped by a toad and nearly wed to a mole before a swallow carries her to marry the flower-spirit king; first English translation 1847.
Thunder 3 (サンダー3) (manga)
Thunder 3 (サンダー3) is a completed 10-volume science fiction manga by Yuki Ikeda, serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine 2022–2026, about the Small 3 middle school trio entering a multiverse drawn in a different art style to rescue Pyontaro's sister; adapted into a 2026 +Ultra anime.
Thunderball (novel)
Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in 1961, in which Bond pursues SPECTRE after it steals two atomic bombs, introducing Blofeld.
Thunderbolt Ross
Thunderbolt Ross (Thaddeus E. Ross) is a Marvel Comics general and Hulk antagonist created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in The Incredible Hulk #1 (1962); he later became the Red Hulk, a gamma mutate with energy-absorption powers, portrayed in the MCU by William Hurt and Harrison Ford.
Thunderbolts (comics)
Thunderbolts are a Marvel Comics team created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley, debuting in 1997 as the Masters of Evil posing as heroes; later versions were led by Hawkeye, Osborn, Luke Cage, Red Hulk, and Winter Soldier.