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Verse novel
A verse novel is a long narrative work that uses the equipment of a novel, including storyline, setting, characters, dialogue, and viewpoint, but tells its story in verse rather than prose, as in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
Verso Books
Verso Books, founded as New Left Books by New Left Review in 1970, is a London- and New York-based independent radical publisher; it publishes politics, theory, history, and fiction, bundles ebooks with print, and runs a book club.
Versus (2022 manga)
Versus (バーサス, Bāsasu) is a monthly shōnen manga by ONE, illustrated by Kyoutarou Azuma and composed by bose, serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Sirius since November 26, 2022; thirteen worlds battle their natural enemies, and it won the 49th Kodansha Manga Award shōnen category.
Verzen
Verzen is a poetry collection by the Dutch poet and classicist J. H. Leopold, published in 1914 with the nine-poem cycle "Verzen 1897" as its core.
Vesiletü'n-Necat
Vesiletü'n-Necat, known popularly as the Mevlid, is a Turkish mawlid poem on the birth and life of Muhammad, written by Süleyman Çelebi and completed in Bursa in 1409.
Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is the fictional MI6 Station S operative in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (1953), Bond's lover and a coerced SMERSH double agent who dies after betraying him; Eva Green played her in the 2006 film, and Bond named the Vesper cocktail after her.
Vetala Panchavimshati
Vetala Panchavimshati (वेतालपञ्चविंशति), also known as Baital Pachisi or Vikram-Betal, is a Sanskrit frame-story collection of 25 riddling tales told by a corpse-inhabiting spirit to King Vikramaditya.
Vexilla regis
Vexilla regis is a Latin hymn in honor of the Holy Cross written by Venantius Fortunatus and first sung at Poitiers in 569; it remains a principal hymn of Passiontide.
Viareggio Prize
The Viareggio Prize (Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) is an Italian literary prize founded in 1929 in Viareggio, Tuscany, and awarded annually for fiction, poetry, and essays; it is one of Italy's oldest literary prizes.
Vibhishana (विभीषण)
Vibhishana (विभीषण, Vibhīṣaṇa), Ravana's youngest brother in the Ramayana, defected to Rama after Ravana refused to return Sita, and was crowned king of Lanka. He is also the only Ramayana figure with a Sri Lankan guardian-deity cult, at the Kelaniya temple.
Vichar Sagar
Vichar Sagar ("Ocean of Inquiry") is a 19th-century Hindi treatise on Advaita Vedanta by the Dādū Panth monk Nishchaladas, written in verse and prose for readers without Sanskrit.
Vichitra Jeevan
Vichitra Jeevan (विचित्र जीवन) is a title attributed to the Hindi novelist, playwright, and Hindi Pradip editor Balkrishna Bhatt (1844–1914), but surveys of his fiction do not list it, leaving its existence, date, and contents unconfirmed.
Vichitravirya (विचित्रवीर्य)
Vichitravirya (विचित्रवीर्य), Kuru king of Hastinapur in the Mahabharata: younger son of Shantanu and Satyavati, husband of Ambika and Ambalika, died childless of consumption; Vyasa's niyoga produced Dhritarashtra, Pandu, and Vidura.
Victor Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein is the scientist-protagonist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, not the Creature. He animates an eight-foot being at Ingolstadt, abandons it, and dies on Walton's Arctic ship.
Victor Gollancz Ltd
Victor Gollancz Ltd, British publisher founded by Victor Gollancz in 1927, published Orwell, Sayers, and du Maurier and ran the Left Book Club; since 1998 it has been Orion's science fiction and fantasy imprint under Hachette.
Victoria of Many Faces
Victoria of Many Faces (手札が多めのビクトリア, Tefuda ga Ōme no Victoria) is an ongoing Japanese fantasy light novel series by Syuu and Nanna Fujimi (MF Bunko, 2022), about a defected spy named Victoria, adapted into manga and a 2026 Studio DEEN anime.
Victorian literature
Victorian literature: British and imperial writing from 1837 to 1901, also called the Victorian age. Distinguished by the rise of the novel, serialization after Pickwick Papers (1836-37), the three-decker system until 1894, and a market of 15,322 novels.
Victorian Psycho (novel)
Victorian Psycho is a 2025 gothic horror novel by Virginia Feito, her second after Mrs. March, following governess Winifred Notty as staff vanish at a remote manor in 1858.
Vida del Chacho
Vida del Chacho is an 1863 political pamphlet and biographical essay by the Argentine writer José Hernández, denouncing the killing of the federal caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza after his surrender.
Vidas Secas
Vidas Secas (Barren Lives) is a 1938 novel by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos that follows a family of drought-driven migrants through the sertão of the Brazilian Northeast.
Viddhashalabhanjika
Viddhashalabhanjika (विद्धशालभञ्जिका) is a four-act Sanskrit court drama (nāṭikā) by Rājaśekhara, who flourished around 900 CE; its title refers to a statue of a śālabhañjikā that the hero discovers in a crystal pavilion.
Vidura (विदुर)
Vidura (विदुर), also Kshatta, is the Mahabharata's chief counsellor of Hastinapura: son of Vyasa by a maidservant, incarnation of Dharma, author of Vidura Niti, and the epic's voice of dharma.
Vidyapati Padavali
Vidyapati's Padavali (विद्यापति पदावली, "the wreath of songs") is the collected Maithili love lyrics of Radha and Krishna by poet Vidyapati, composed around 1380 to 1406 in Mithila.
Vidyasundar
Vidyasundar (Bengali: বিদ্যাসুন্দর), also written Bidyasundar, is a Bengali romantic poem about the secret love of princess Vidya and prince Sundar, composed in 1752 by Bharatchandra Ray as the second part of his Annadamangal.
Viewing the Blue Sea
Viewing the Blue Sea, or Guan Cang Hai (观沧海), is a yuefu poem by Cao Cao, written in 207 CE after his victory over the Wuhuan.
Views and Lessons
Al-Nazarat and al-'Abarat are collections of essays and stories by Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti, a celebrated Egyptian prose stylist who wrote much of the content for the newspaper al-Mu'ayyad.
Vijaya Marthandam
Vijaya Marthandam (விஜய மார்த்தாண்டம்) is a 1903 Tamil novel by A. Madhaviah that portrays the life and folk culture of the Maravar community of southern Tamil Nadu.
Vijayavilasamu
Vijayavilasamu is a Telugu prabandha kavya in three cantos by court poet Chemakura Venkata Kavi, composed around 1620–1630, narrating Arjuna's marriages with Chitrangada, Ulupi, and Subhadra.
Vikramarjuna Vijaya
Vikramarjuna Vijaya, popularly known as Pampa Bharata, is a 10th-century Kannada champu epic by the Jain poet Pampa that retells the Mahabharata with Arjuna as its hero.
Vikramarka Charitre
Vikramarka Charitre (विक्रमार्कचरित्र, "The Story of Vikramarka") is a Sanskrit prose work narrating the birth and leading incidents in the life of Vikramarka, a king said to have reigned in Ujjain.