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Vande Mataram (वन्दे मातरम्)
Vande Mataram (वन्दे मातरम्), India's National Song, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1875, published in Bangadarshan and Anandamath (1882), given equal status with Jana Gana Mana in 1950.
Vang bóng một thời
Vang bóng một thời is a 1940 collection of short stories and personal essays by the Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Tuân, first published in Hanoi by Tân Dân.
Vanity Fair (novel)
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is Thackeray's satirical novel, serialized in Punch 1847–1848, following Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley through Napoleonic-era English society under an intrusive puppet-show narrator.
Vanka
Vanka (Ванька) is a short story by Anton Chekhov, published in 1886, about a nine-year-old orphan apprentice who writes his grandfather begging to leave the city.
Várias Histórias
Várias Histórias is an 1896 short-story collection by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, his fifth, gathering sixteen stories, including "A cartomante", first printed in the Gazeta de Notícias.
Varney the Vampire
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is an 1845–1847 penny dreadful serial, likely by James Malcolm Rymer, about the vampire Sir Francis Varney; a 660,000-word precursor to Dracula.
Varys
Varys, called the Spider, is the master of whisperers spymaster in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Conleth Hill; a eunuch born a slave in Lys who runs a child spy network and backs the hidden Aegon Targaryen.
Vasily Tyorkin
Vasily Tyorkin (Василий Тёркин) is the soldier-hero of Alexander Tvardovsky's 1942 verse work Vasily Tyorkin: A Book about a Fighter, the best-known literary work on the Great Patriotic War.
Vasucharitra
Vasucharitra (వసుచరిత్ర, also written Vasucaritramu) is a sixteenth-century Telugu prabandha, a classical court poem composed by Bhattumurti, better known as Ramaraja Bhushana, and praised as a perfect Prabandha of its age.
Vatan Mersiyesi
Vatan Mersiyesi is a Turkish poem mourning lost territory, written by the Ottoman poet Namık Kemal after the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War, known as the 93 Harbi.
Vathek
Vathek, full title The History of the Caliph Vathek, is a Gothic oriental tale by William Beckford, written in French around 1782 and first published in English in 1786.
Vatican Vergil
The Vatican Vergil is an illustrated manuscript of Virgil's poems made in Rome around A.D. 400, the most famous illustrated book surviving from classical antiquity.
Vayalar Award
The Vayalar Award (വയലാർ പുരസ്കാരം) is an annual literary award in Kerala for the best work written in Malayalam, first given in 1977 to Lalithambika Antharjanam.
Vayam Raksham
Vayam Raksham (वयं रक्षामः), also romanized Vayam Rakshamah, is a 1955 Hindi novel by Acharya Chatursen Shastri that retells the Ramayana from Ravana's perspective rather than Rama's.
Ved Rondane
Ved Rondane, originally Ved Rundarne, is an 1861 poem by the Norwegian writer Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, published in Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860 and famously set to music by Edvard Grieg in 1880.
Veenapoovu
Veenapoovu (വീണപൂവ്, "The Fallen Flower") is a 41-stanza Malayalam poem by Kumaran Asan, first published in 1907, credited with laying the foundation of the romantic movement in Malayalam poetry.
Veera Yuga Nayagan Velpari
Veera Yuga Nayagan Velpari is a Tamil historical fiction novel by Su. Venkatesan, serialized in Ananda Vikatan from 2016 to 2018, reimagining the Sangam-era Velir chieftain Vēl Pāri.
Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía
Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía is the first poetry collection of Argentine poet Oliverio Girondo, printed in France in 1922 and considered a foundational work of the Argentine vanguard.
Vellum
Vellum, also known as vellum parchment, is a smooth, durable writing and printing material made from animal skin, traditionally calfskin, used for fine medieval manuscripts and lasting over 1,000 years.
Vemana Satakamu
Vemana Satakamu (వేమన శతకము, also Vemana Padyamulu) is the collected Telugu quatrains of the saint-poet Vemana of Andhra, first printed by C.P. Brown in 1824.
Venezianische Epigramme
Venezianische Epigramme (Venetian Epigrams) is a cycle of satirical and erotic distichs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written during his second stay in Venice in 1790.
Vengayin Maindhan
Vengayin Maindhan (வேங்கையின் மைந்தன்), meaning "Tiger's Son", is a 1963 Tamil historical novel by Akilan about Rajendra Chola I that won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Venom War
Venom War is Marvel Comics' 2024 symbiote crossover event by Al Ewing and Iban Coello: a five-issue series, August to November 2024, in which Eddie Brock and his son Dylan fight over the Venom symbiote, ending the Ewing run and launching All-New Venom.
Vents
Vents is a long French poem by Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Léger, written in Maine in 1945 and published by Gallimard in 1946.
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare, first printed in London in 1593, telling of Venus's unrequited pursuit of the huntsman Adonis.
Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz) is an 1870 novella by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch depicting Severin's submission to Wanda; it inspired Krafft-Ebing's 1886 term masochism, Deleuze's essays, Ives's 2010 Broadway play, Polanski's 2013 film, and the Velvet Underground song.
Vér és arany
Vér és arany (Blood and Gold) is a 1907 book of poems by the Hungarian poet Endre Ady, his third collection and a landmark of Hungarian literary modernity.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, also known as Vera Wong #1, is Jesse Q. Sutanto's 2023 Berkley cozy mystery in which a 60-year-old widow finds a dead man in her San Francisco Chinatown teahouse and investigates; 2024 Edgar Award winner with a 2025 sequel.
Verity (novel)
Verity (2018) is Colleen Hoover's self-published psychological thriller about ghostwriter Lowen Ashleigh, hired by Jeremy Crawford to finish his paralyzed wife Verity's series, who finds her secret autobiography So Be It; a BookTok bestseller adapted into a 2026 film.
Veronica Lodge
Veronica Lodge (Ronnie), Archie Comics character debuting in Pep Comics #26 (April 1942), created by Bob Montana; wealthy daughter of Hiram and Hermione Lodge, Betty Cooper's rival for Archie Andrews, later played by Camila Mendes in Riverdale.