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Yuanyuan Qu
Yuanyuan Qu (圓圓曲, The Song of Yuanyuan) is a long narrative poem by the early Qing poet Wu Weiye about the courtesan Chen Yuanyuan and the Ming general Wu Sangui.
Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर)
Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर), Dharmaraja, eldest Pandava son of the god Dharma in the Mahabharata; lost kingdom, brothers, and Draupadi in Shakuni's dice game, endured exile, the Yaksha Prashna, and ruled after Kurukshetra.
Yuefu poetry
Yuefu poetry (乐府诗, "Music Bureau poems") is a Chinese poetic genre named after the Han dynasty Music Bureau, running from Han folk song through Six Dynasties imitation to the Tang new yuefu.
Yuefu Yaci
Yuefu Yaci (乐府雅词) is a Song-dynasty anthology of ci lyrics compiled by Zeng Zao and completed in 1146, the earliest surviving anthology of Song lyrics.
Yuewei Caotang Biji
Yuewei Caotang Biji (阅微草堂笔记, Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Observations) is a collection of Classical Chinese tales of foxes and ghosts compiled by the Qing scholar Ji Yun between 1789 and 1798.
Yueyang Tower Record
Yueyang Tower Record (岳阳楼记) is a celebrated 368-character essay written by Fan Zhongyan in 1046, known for "worry before the world, rejoice after the world."
Yuezhang Ji
The Collected Ci of Liu Yong (Yuezhang ji, 樂章集) is the collection of ci lyrics by Northern Song poet Liu Yong, arranged by musical mode and foundational for slow ci.
Yuganthaya
Yuganthaya (යුගාන්තය; End of an Era) is a 1949 Sinhala novel by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe, the middle volume of his Koggala trilogy, filmed in 1985 by Lester James Peries.
Yugvandana
Yugvandana (યુગવંદના, "Ode to the Age") is a Gujarati poetry collection by Jhaverchand Meghani, published in 1935, that earned him the title Rashtriya Shayar, conferred by Mahatma Gandhi.
Yuhai
The Yuhai is a 200-juan Chinese classified encyclopedia compiled by the Southern Song scholar Wang Yinglin, completed in 1252 to prepare for the boyxue hongci examination.
Yukar
Yukar (Ainu: ユカㇻ) is the chanted oral epic literature of the Ainu people, the indigenous inhabitants of Hokkaido, comprising heroic epics and mythic epics narrated by gods.
Yuming Tang Ji
Yuming Tang Ji (玉茗堂集), or Collected Works of the Jade Tea Hall, gathers the poetry, prose, and letters of the Ming dynasty playwright Tang Xianzu (1550–1616).
Yunus Emre Divanı
Yunus Emre Divanı (Yûnus Emre Dîvânı) is the collected lyric poetry of the Turkish Sufi poet Yunus Emre, written in Old Anatolian Turkish at the foundation of Turkish Sufi poetry.
Yuria
Yuria is a 1967 poetry collection by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published by Joaquín Mortiz in Mexico City, notable for political poems new to his work.
Yushi Mingyan
Yushi Mingyan (喻世明言), first published in 1620 under the title Gujin xiaoshuo, is a collection of 40 vernacular Chinese stories compiled by Feng Menglong, the first of the three Sanyan collections.
Yusuf and Zulaikha
Yusuf and Zulaikha (یوسف و زلیخا, Yusuf o Zulaykha) is Jami's 1483 Persian mathnawi of 4,032 couplets in the Haft Awrang, retelling Joseph and Potiphar's wife as a Sufi romance ending in her redemption and marriage.
Yûsuf u Züleyhâ
Yûsuf u Züleyhâ (يوسف و زليخا) is the title shared by mesnevis on the love of the prophet Yusuf and Züleyhâ, written across Persian, Turkish, and Urdu literatures.
Yuyutsu (युयुत्सु)
Yuyutsu (युयुत्सु), also Vaiśyāputra, is the Mahabharata's son of Dhritarashtra by a Vaishya woman, half-brother of the Kauravas, the only one who defected to the Pandavas and survived the Kurukshetra war, later Parikshit's guardian.
Yuzuriha
Yuzuriha (杠, Yuzuriha of Keishu) is a kunoichi death row criminal in Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku by Yuji Kaku, joining the Elixir of Life expedition for a pardon; Earth affinity, monitor Senta, voiced by Rie Takahashi and Jill Harris.
Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion
Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion, or Yvain, or the Knight of the Lion, is an Arthurian romance in Old French verse by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1177 to 1181.
Z chałupy
Z chałupy ("From the Cottage") is a cycle of 40 sonnets by the Polish poet Jan Kasprowicz, written in Wrocław prison in 1887 and published in 1888.
Zaat
Zaat (ذات, also translated as Self) is a 1992 novel by the Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim following an ordinary woman's life as a mirror of Egyptian society.
Zaczarowana dorożka
Zaczarowana dorożka (The Enchanted Carriage) is a 1946 narrative poem by the Polish poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński about a magical night cab ride through Kraków.
Zadonshchina
Zadonshchina (Задонщина) is a lyrical poetic work of Old Russian literature commemorating the Russian victory over Mamai at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, deliberately structured as a counterpart to The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
Zafernâme
Zafernâme is a satirical work by Ottoman writer Ziya Paşa that mocks Grand Vizier Âli Paşa's handling of the Cretan uprising as if it were a victory.
Záhada hlavolamu
Záhada hlavolamu (The Mystery of the Conundrum) is a boys' adventure novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Foglar, serialized in 1940 and first published as a book in 1941.
Zahhak
Zahhak (ضحاک), from Avestan Azi Dahaka, is the serpent-shouldered tyrant of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh who ruled Iran a thousand years after usurping Jamshid, fed his snakes human brains, and was imprisoned in Mount Damavand by Feridun after Kaveh's revolt.
Zakhar Berkut
Zakhar Berkut (Захар Беркут) is an 1883 historical novella by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, set among the Carpathian mountain Tukholtsy during the Mongol invasion of 1241.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zaphod Beeblebrox is the two-headed, three-armed Betelgeusian President of the Galaxy in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide series; a fraudulent figurehead who steals the Heart of Gold to find Magrathea, altered his own memory, and was played by Mark Wing-Davey and Sam Rockwell.
Zarb-e-Kaleem
Zarb-e-Kaleem (ضربِ کلیم, "The Strike of Moses's Staff") is the third Urdu poetry collection of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1936, the last in his lifetime.