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Wordless novel
Wordless novel: a narrative genre telling stories through sequences of captionless pictures, also called woodcut novel. Begun with Frans Masereel's 1918 25 Images de la passion d'un homme; flourished in the 1920s-1930s, rooted in German Expressionism, shaped by silent cinema, and a forerunner of the graphic novel.
Words of Edification
Words of Edification (Qara sözder, the Book of Edification) is a cycle of 45 moral and philosophical prose pieces by the Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuly, written 1890–1898.
Words of Radiance
Words of Radiance is the 2014 second book of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, published by Tor, with Shallan-focused flashbacks, originally titled The Book of Endless Pages, and a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Worin cheongang jigok
Worin cheongang jigok (월인천강지곡) is a Korean Buddhist song cycle of 583 verses composed by King Sejong the Great of Joseon in 1447, praising the life of the Buddha in Hangul.
Works and Days
Works and Days (Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι) is an 828-line didactic poem traditionally ascribed to Hesiod and dated to around 700 BCE, urging his brother Perses toward justice and honest labor.
Works of Rabindranath Tagore
Works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর): the Bengali polymath's output of nearly 60 verse volumes, 2,265 songs in Gitabitan (Rabindrasangit), 14 novels including Gora and Ghare-Baire, plays, and essays; Gitanjali (1912 English) won the 1913 Nobel Prize.
World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman (聖剣使いの禁呪詠唱〈ワールドブレイク〉)
Seiken Tsukai no World Break (聖剣使いの禁呪詠唱〈ワールドブレイク〉), also titled World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman, is a 22-volume GA Bunko light novel series by Akamitsu Awamura and refeia about dual past-life saviors, adapted into a 2015 Diomedéa anime.
World of A Song of Ice and Fire
The World of A Song of Ice and Fire, or Game of Thrones, is the fictional setting for George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series.
World Trigger (ワールドトリガー)
World Trigger (ワールドトリガー) is a sci-fi battle manga by Daisuke Ashihara, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2013 and Jump SQ. since 2018, about Border defending Mikado City from Neighbors; 30 volumes, Toei anime with three seasons.
World War Hulk
World War Hulk: 2007 Marvel Comics crossover event by Greg Pak and John Romita Jr.; five-issue miniseries sequel to Planet Hulk in which the Hulk returns from Sakaar with the Warbound to attack the Illuminati and New York's heroes.
World War Z
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks's 2006 Crown novel, tells a global zombie pandemic through postwar survivor interviews modeled on Studs Terkel; distinct from the 2013 Brad Pitt film, banned in China, annotated 2026 edition.
World Without End (Follett novel)
World Without End is Ken Follett's 2007 Kingsbridge novel, a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth set in 1327-1361, following four children bound by a witnessed killing through the Black Death and Hundred Years War.
World's Finest Comics
World's Finest Comics: DC's 1941–1986 Superman/Batman anthology and team-up series (322 issues), and the name inherited by the 2022 ongoing Batman/Superman: World's Finest by Mark Waid and Dan Mora.
Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding (conworlding) is constructing an imaginary world or fictional universe for novels, games, RPGs, film, foresight, or its own sake. Key ideas: Tolkien's subcreation, transmedia worlds, game narrative techniques, and LLM-assisted world generation.
WorldEnd (終末なにしてますか？忙しいですか？救ってもらっていいですか？)
WorldEnd (終末なにしてますか？忙しいですか？救ってもらっていいですか？), aka SukaSuka, is a Japanese fantasy light novel series and 2017 anime about Willem Kmetsch, last survivor of extinct humanity, among fairy weapon-girls on floating islands.
Worzel Gummidge
Worzel Gummidge is Barbara Euphan Todd's living scarecrow, first heard on BBC radio in 1935, first Puffin paperback (1941), famous through Jon Pertwee's ITV series 1979-1981, Worzel Gummidge Down Under (1987-89), and Mackenzie Crook's 2019 BBC revival.
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (ヲタクに恋は難しい)
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (ヲタクに恋は難しい, Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii) is Fujita's josei office-romance manga about adult otaku couples, serialized in Comic POOL 2015–2021 across 11 volumes, with a 2018 A-1 Pictures anime and 2020 live-action film.
Wounds of Armenia
Wounds of Armenia (Armenian: Վերք Հայաստանի, Verk Hayastani) is a historical novel by Khachatur Abovian, written in 1841 and regarded as the first modern Armenian novel.
Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Senior Year Adventures book 2; Percy Jackson and the Olympians book 7) is Rick Riordan's 2024 novel in which Percy, Annabeth, and Grover pet-sit Hecate's escaped pets in New York while Percy earns a college recommendation letter.
Writers in Politics
Writers in Politics is a 1981 essay collection by Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo on the African writer's political responsibilities, substantially rewritten and expanded in 1997.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (MOBY) is the eighth Outlander novel by Diana Gabaldon, published June 10, 2014, set in 1778 during the American Revolution, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car (כתוב בעיפרון בקרון החתום) is a six-line Hebrew poem by the Israeli poet Dan Pagis, first published in 1970 in his collection Gilgul.
Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple
Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple (题西林壁, Ti Xilin bi) is a seven-character philosophical quatrain inscribed by the Song poet Su Shi on Mount Lu in 1084.
Written on Water
Written on Water (流言, Liuyan) is the first essay collection by the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, published in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in December 1944, at the height of her fame.
Wu Ling Chun
Wu Ling Chun (武陵春) is a famous ci poem by Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao, written in 1135, known for its closing image of sorrow too heavy for a boat.
Wulin Jiushi
Wulin Jiushi (武林旧事, Old Affairs of Wulin) is a ten-juan collection of notes by Song loyalist Zhou Mi, written about 1290 on life in the Southern Song capital Lin'an (Hangzhou).
Wuliu Xiansheng Zhuan
Wuliu Xiansheng Zhuan (五柳先生传, "Biography of Mr. Five Willows") is a short biography by Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming, long read as his autobiography but now often seen as a fictional portrait.
Wusheng Xi
Wusheng Xi (Silent Operas), also titled Liancheng Bi, is a collection of twelve vernacular short stories by the early Qing writer Li Yu (1611–1680), whom scholars rank as the Qing's most creative huaben writer.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's 1847 Gothic novel published as Ellis Bell, follows Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across two generations on the Yorkshire moors; initially condemned, it became a classic adapted into dozens of films.
Wutong Ye
Wutong Ye (Rain on the Parasol Trees) is a Yuan-dynasty zaju, a form of Chinese opera, by the playwright Bai Pu, dramatizing Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and his consort Yang Guifei.