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Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard is an 1897 poem by the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, a founding work of visual poetry.
Un día…
Un día… (poemas sintéticos) is a 1919 poetry collection by the Mexican poet José Juan Tablada, the first collection of haikai, the Japanese short poem, published in Spanish.
Unaccustomed Earth
Unaccustomed Earth is a 2008 collection of eight short stories by the American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, centered on Bengali immigrants in the United States and their American-born children.
Unbowed: A Memoir
Unbowed: A Memoir is the 2006 autobiography of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist, founder of the Green Belt Movement, and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
Uncanny Avengers
Uncanny Avengers (Avengers Unity Squad) is a Marvel Comics series launched October 10, 2012 by Rick Remender and John Cassaday, pairing Avengers and X-Men after Avengers vs. X-Men, with four series runs through 2023.
Uncanny X-Men
Uncanny X-Men is Marvel's flagship X-Men comic, launched as The X-Men in 1963 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, renamed Uncanny X-Men at #142 (1981), running 544 issues to 2011, defined by Chris Claremont's 1975-1991 run, and relaunched in 2024 under Gail Simone.
Uncle Fester
Uncle Fester, or Fester Addams, is a fictional character in The Addams Family, created by cartoonist Charles Addams and named in the 1964 TV series, where Jackie Coogan played him.
Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh is an 1864 Gothic mystery novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, narrated by the heiress Maud Ruthyn.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the enslaved Christian hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, partly based on Josiah Henson; stage adaptations turned his name into a slur for Black servility.
Undead Unluck (アンデッドアンラック)
Undead Unluck (アンデッドアンラック) is Yoshifumi Tozuka's Weekly Shonen Jump manga (2020-2025, 27 volumes) about Negators Fuuko and Andy, adapted into a 2023 David Production anime, a 2025 Winter-hen special, and a second season.
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle (最弱無敗の神装機竜, Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut) is a GA Bunko light novel by Senri Akatsuki: 20 volumes (2013–2020), a Gangan Online manga, and a 12-episode 2016 Lerche anime about Drag-Knight Lux.
Under Ben Bulben
"Under Ben Bulben" is one of the last poems of William Butler Yeats, completed in September 1938 and ending with the epitaph on his headstone at Drumcliff, County Sligo.
Under der linden
"Under der linden" is a Middle High German love song by the Minnesänger Walther von der Vogelweide, composed around 1200 and famous for its refrain tandaradei.
Under Doctor
Under Doctor (アンダードクター) is a medical battle manga by Kyo Tanimoto, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since January 26, 2026, about underworld doctor Haiji Kino; first volume June 2026, English simulpub on VIZ.
Under the Frangipani
Under the Frangipani (A varanda do frangipani) is a 1996 novel by Mia Couto of Mozambique, narrated by a murdered carpenter who returns as a ghost.
Under the Greenwood Tree
Under the Greenwood Tree is an 1872 novel by Thomas Hardy, set in the Dorset village of Mellstock and the first of his Wessex series.
Under the Net
Under the Net is a comic novel by Iris Murdoch, her first, published in London in 1954. It follows hack writer Jake Donaghue through picaresque adventures in London and Paris.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano is a 1947 novel by British writer Malcolm Lowry, following alcoholic ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin through his final day in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, on the Day of the Dead.
Under the Yoke
Under the Yoke (Под игото) is a novel by the Bulgarian writer Ivan Vazov, first published complete in 1894 and generally regarded as the first Bulgarian novel.
Underdark
The Underdark is Dungeons & Dragons' vast subterranean realm of interconnected caverns, first introduced in Gygax's 1981 Descent into the Depths of the Earth; it features a sunless fungus-based ecology, drow and other deep races, and Menzoberranzan.
Undertones of War
Undertones of War is a 1928 First World War memoir by the English poet Edmund Blunden, based on his service as a junior officer on the Western Front.
Unfinished Tales
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, a 1980 collection of J.R.R. Tolkien's incomplete narratives and essays edited by his son Christopher Tolkien; covers Númenor, Gandalf, Rohan, the Five Wizards, and Palantíri.
Ungoliant
Ungoliant, also called Gloomweaver or Ungoliante, is Tolkien's mysterious primeval spider-spirit who, allied with Melkor, destroyed the Two Trees of Valinor in Y.T. 1495, battled him over the Silmarils, and left descendants including Shelob; her origin and fate are unknown.
Unnuneeli Sandesam
Unnuneeli Sandesam (ഉണ്ണുനീലിസന്ദേശം) is a 14th-century Malayalam messenger poem written in Manipravalam, believed to be the first sandesha kavya in Malayalam, dated 1350 to 1365.
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots is Deborah Feldman's 2012 Simon & Schuster memoir of growing up in and leaving Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidic community; it became a New York Times bestseller and the loose basis for Netflix's 2020 series Unorthodox.
Unreliable narrator
Unreliable narrator: a storyteller in fiction or film whose account may not be truthful. Term coined by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961); defined by distance from the implied author's norms; examples include Moll Flanders, Roger Ackroyd, and Life of Pi.
Unseen character
Unseen character: also called absent or offstage character, a story figure who never appears to the audience but advances the plot, exemplified by Godot, Harvey, and Mr. Wingfield.
Until August
Until August (En agosto nos vemos) is Gabriel García Márquez's short posthumous novel, published in Spanish and English in March 2024 by his sons against his wishes, about Ana Magdalena Bach's yearly August trips to a Caribbean island.
Untimely Thoughts
Untimely Thoughts (Несвоевременные мысли) is a cycle of essays by Maxim Gorky, published in the newspaper Novaya Zhizn in Petrograd in 1917–1918, criticizing Bolshevik methods after the revolution.
Unto This Last
Unto This Last: John Ruskin's four 1860 Cornhill Magazine essays on political economy, published as a book by Smith, Elder & Co. in May 1862; attacked classical economics and deeply influenced Gandhi, who translated it as Sarvodaya.