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Carta atenagórica
The Carta atenagórica, originally titled Crisis de un sermón, is a 1690 theological letter by the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz critiquing Jesuit António Vieira's sermon.
Cartas Chilenas
Cartas Chilenas is a Brazilian satirical poem in thirteen blank-verse letters, circulated anonymously in manuscript from 1782 and attributed to the poet Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, satirizing the governor of Minas Gerais under a Chilean disguise.
Cartas de Santa Teresa
Cartas de Santa Teresa (Letters of Saint Teresa) is the correspondence of Teresa of Ávila, the Spanish Carmelite reformer, comprising over 450 surviving letters that document her reform.
Cartucho
Cartucho is a 1931 book of short prose pieces about the Mexican Revolution by Nellie Campobello, told through the eyes of a young girl in Parral, Chihuahua.
Casa-Grande & Senzala
Casa-Grande & Senzala, in English The Masters and the Slaves, is a 1933 essay by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, widely treated as a founding work of Brazilian social thought.
Casaysayan nang Pasiong Mahal
Casaysayan nang Pasiong Mahal, also called Pasyong Genesis, is an 1814 Tagalog verse narrative of Christ's life and passion, the most commonly used pasyon in the Philippines.
Casey at the Bat
"Casey at the Bat" is an 1888 baseball poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in which the mighty slugger Casey strikes out, dooming his hometown team of Mudville.
Casey Jones (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Casey Jones, Arnold Bernid Jones, is the hockey-masked TMNT vigilante created by Eastman and Laird, debuting in Raphael #1 (1985), the Turtles' closest human ally and April O'Neil's partner, distinct from the other Casey Jones characters.
Casino Royale (novel)
Published in 1953, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming introduced James Bond. It details agent 007's mission to bankrupt the Russian agent Le Chiffre, who gambled heavily in a French casino.
Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent is a short 1800 novel by Maria Edgeworth, the first regional novel in English, tracing the decline of the Anglo-Irish Rackrent family through their servant's narration.
Castle Rock (Stephen King)
Castle Rock is Stephen King's fictional Maine mill town, named after Lord of the Flies, hosting Cujo, The Dead Zone, The Body, and Needful Things, and lending its name to Castle Rock Entertainment and the 2018 Hulu series.
Cat and Mouse
Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus) is a 1961 novella by Günter Grass and the second part of his Danzig Trilogy, set in Danzig during the Nazi era.
Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's fourth novel, a satirical postmodern science-fiction novel published in 1963 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, known for ice-nine, San Lorenzo, Bokononism, and a 5th-place 1964 Hugo finish.
Catalogue of Women
The Catalogue of Women, also known as the Ehoiai, is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem ascribed to Hesiod that traced heroic genealogies through mortal women.
Catch-22
Catch-22 is Joseph Heller's satirical 1961 novel about bombardier Yossarian in World War II Italy; retitled from Catch-18 because of Leon Uris's Mila 18, it coined an idiom for a no-win paradox and became a postmodern classic.
Catching Fire
Catching Fire (2009) by Suzanne Collins, second Hunger Games novel: Katniss and Peeta become rebellion symbols, face the Quarter Quell, setting up Mockingjay; Golden Duck winner, 2013 billion-dollar film.
Catelyn Stark
Catelyn Stark, née Tully (Cat, Lady Stoneheart), is a major POV character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire: Eddard Stark's wife, mother of five, murdered at the Red Wedding and resurrected as a vengeful leader of the brotherhood without banners.
Caterpillar (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
The Caterpillar is the hookah-smoking, three-inch-high blue caterpillar of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), who asks Alice "Who are YOU?" and teaches her to change size by eating a mushroom; named Absolem in Tim Burton's 2010 film.
Catharine Sedgwick
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867), American novelist of Stockbridge, Massachusetts; author of A New-England Tale (1822), Redwood (1824), and Hope Leslie (1827); premier US woman writer of the Early National period.
Cathemerinon
The Cathemerinon Liber, "Book of daily hymns," is a collection of twelve Latin hymns by the Christian poet Prudentius, composed in the early fifth century.
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–54 BCE) was a Roman poet of the late Republic whose surviving collection of more than a hundred poems treats love and invective.
Catullus 101
Catullus 101 is a ten-line Latin elegy in which the Roman poet Catullus mourns his dead brother at his grave near Troy, ending with ave atque vale.
Catullus 11
Catullus 11 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, addressed to Furius and Aurelius and ending in a bitter farewell to his lover Lesbia.
Catullus 16
Catullus 16 (Carmen 16), a hendecasyllabic invective by Catullus against Furius and Aurelius, opens and closes with the obscene 'Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo'; famous for its poet-versus-verses chastity claim, censorship history, and debated 'his pilosis' line.
Catullus 3
Catullus 3 is an 18-line poem by the Roman poet Catullus mourning the death of his girlfriend Lesbia's pet sparrow, paired with Catullus 2 as the passer poems.
Catullus 5
Catullus 5 is a Latin love poem by Catullus addressed to Lesbia, opening "let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love," and counting thousands of kisses.
Catullus 51
Catullus 51 (opening Ille mi par) is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus that translates and adapts Sappho's Phainetai moi, known as Sappho 31, in Sapphic stanzas.
Catullus 63
Catullus 63 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, written in the mid-50s BCE in galliambic verse, telling how the Greek youth Attis castrated himself for Cybele.
Catullus 64
Catullus 64, known in antiquity as The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, is Catullus' longest poem, a 408-line miniature epic joining the wedding of Peleus and Thetis to the story of Theseus and Ariadne.
Catullus 8
Catullus 8, beginning "Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire", is a 19-line poem by the Roman poet Catullus in which he tries to give up his love for Lesbia.