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Zarguzasht
Zarguzasht (زرگزشت) is a humorous Urdu autobiography by Pakistani banker and humorist Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi, first published in the 1970s and counted among the major autobiographies of Urdu literature.
Zathura
Zathura is a 2002 Chris Van Allsburg picture book and 2005 Jon Favreau film about a space board game, a sequel to Jumanji; also zathura, a keyboard-driven Linux document viewer.
Zawen
Zawen (杂文, "miscellaneous writing") is a genre of modern Chinese literature: a short, satirical essay of social criticism, most closely associated with the writer Lu Xun.
Zaynab
Zaynab is a 1914 novel by Egyptian writer Muhammad Husayn Haykal, set in the Egyptian countryside and regarded by many critics as the first modern Arabic novel.
Zayni Barakat
Zayni Barakat (الزيني بركات) is a 1974 novel by the Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani, using a real sixteenth-century muhtasib of Cairo as an allegory of political repression in modern Egypt.
Zazie dans le Métro (novel)
Zazie dans le métro, Raymond Queneau's 1959 comic novel (not the 1960 Louis Malle film), follows a girl of about twelve in strike-bound Paris; famous for its neo-French phonetic spelling and opening word Doukipudonktan.
Zeenat
Zeenat (زینت) is a Sindhi novel by Mirza Qaleech Beg, completed at Rohri in 1890 and regarded as the first original Sindhi novel, advocating women's education and social reform.
Zeitroman
Zeitroman (plural: Zeitromane), literally "time novel", is a German literary term for a novel centered on a critical analysis of the author's own era, closely related to the Gesellschaftsroman.
Zemirot Yisrael
Zemirot Yisrael (זמירות ישראל, "Songs of Israel") is a major collection of Hebrew liturgical poems by Rabbi Yisrael Najara, first printed at Safed in 1587 and expanded in Venice in 1599-1600.
Zengguang Xianwen
Zengguang Xianwen (增广贤文), also known as Xishi Xianwen, is a Chinese children's primer of proverbs in rhymed couplets compiled anonymously in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Zeno's Conscience
Zeno's Conscience (La coscienza di Zeno) is a 1923 novel by Italo Svevo, a classic of Italian literature told as the memoirs of an inept Trieste businessman.
Zhan Cheng Nan
Zhan Cheng Nan (战城南) is a Western Han yuefu folk song, the only warfare song among the Eighteen Songs of the Han Drum-and-Flute, mourning unburied soldiers and condemning war.
Zhanghui novel
The zhanghui novel (章回小说) is the traditional Chinese form of long vernacular fiction, divided into chapters headed by couplet titles and flourished in Ming and Qing times.
Zhao Pan'er Fengyue Jiu Fengchen
Zhao Pan'er Fengyue Jiu Fengchen (赵盼儿风月救风尘), usually shortened to Jiu fengchen, is a four-act Yuan-dynasty zaju comedy by Guan Hanqing in which the courtesan Zhao Pan'er tricks the merchant Zhou She into freeing Song Yinzhang.
Zhao Ziyue
Zhao Ziyue (赵子曰) is a 1927 satirical novel by the Chinese writer Lao She, his second, following an idle student through a strike, expulsion, and failed ventures in 1920s Beijing.
Zhenchuan wenji
Zhenchuan Ji, or Zhenchuan xiansheng ji (震川先生集), is the collected prose and verse of Ming dynasty writer Gui Youguang, first assembled completely during the Kangxi reign.
Zhiguai
Zhiguai (志怪, "recording the strange") is a Chinese genre of brief classical accounts of anomalies, ghosts, immortals, and marvels, peaking during the Six Dynasties period (220–589).
Zhongyong Lun
Zhongyong Lun (中庸论) is a set of three essays by Song writer Su Shi on the Doctrine of the Mean, written between 1057 and 1061.
Zi Bu Yu
Zi Bu Yu (子不语), also titled Xin Qixie, is a collection of supernatural tales compiled by the Qing dynasty poet Yuan Mei and published in 1788.
Zimbabwean novel
The Zimbabwean novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English, beginning in the mid-1950s and shaped by themes of land dispossession, the liberation war, and nationalism.
Zindan-Nama
Zindan-Nama ("Book of the Prison") is the third poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written in prison and published in Lahore in 1956.
Zion, Will You Not Ask
"Zion, Will You Not Ask" (Tziyon halo tishali) is a Hebrew poem of longing for Zion by Judah Halevi, whose opening line ranks among his most famous compositions.
Ziye Songs
The Ziye Songs (子夜歌) are a set of Southern Dynasties yuefu love songs, traditionally attributed to a Jin dynasty woman named Ziye but likely composed by Wu women.
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories is a 1966 collection of seven children's stories by Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, illustrated by Maurice Sendak and named a Newbery Honor Book in 1967.
Zlati čoln
Zlati čoln ("The Golden Boat") is a collection of 45 poems the Slovene poet Srečko Kosovel prepared in 1925; the manuscript was lost and only its preface survives.
Zohre and Tahir
Zohre and Tahir (Tâhir ile Zühre) is a love dastan, a prosimetric epic often likened to Romeo and Juliet, circulating across Turkic traditions from Central Asia to Turkey.
Zombie
Zombie: reanimated corpse or virus-infected human in horror fiction, Haitian Creole zonbi, Haitian French zombi. Word recorded 1819 by Robert Southey; raised by a bokor in Haitian folklore; remade as flesh-eater by Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead.
Zombiepowder.
Zombiepowder. (ゾンビパウダー) is Tite Kubo’s four-volume manga, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1999–2000, about criminals hunting the 12 Rings of the Dead.
Zoo, or Letters Not About Love
Zoo, or Letters Not About Love is a 1923 epistolary book by Russian Formalist writer Viktor Shklovsky, written in exile in Berlin and dedicated to Elsa Triolet.
Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά)
Zorba the Greek (Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά) is Nikos Kazantzakis's 1946 philosophical novel about an intellectual and the miner Alexis Zorba on Crete, his most popular work, translated widely and adapted into the 1964 film with Anthony Quinn.