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Charitraheen
Charitraheen (চরিত্রহীন, "Characterless") is a 1917 Bengali novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, set in early 1900s Bengal, that attacks society's rumor-based judgment of character and remains frequently adapted.
Charles Dickens bibliography
Charles Dickens bibliography: the works of Charles Dickens (1812–1870), fourteen completed novels plus the unfinished Edwin Drood, five Christmas books, and journalism, mostly first published in monthly or weekly serial parts before book editions.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel (also called Willy Wonka), follows five Golden Ticket winners touring Willy Wonka's factory. Known for its 1973 Oompa-Loompa revision, 1971/2005/2023 films, and Netflix's 2027 animated Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2013 West End musical of Roald Dahl's novel, music Marc Shaiman, lyrics Shaiman and Scott Wittman, book David Greig, directed by Sam Mendes; reworked for Broadway in 2017 under Jack O'Brien with 1971 film songs added.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is Roald Dahl's 1972 sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, following Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka into space, a space hotel, battles with the Vermicious Knids, and a de-aging experiment; never filmed, unlike its predecessor.
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown: the round-headed, ever-persevering main character of Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, first published October 2, 1950. Known for the zigzag shirt, the Little Red-Haired Girl, the pulled-away football, and the Apollo 10 module named after him.
Charlie Chan
Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American Honolulu detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in The House Without a Key (1925), modeled partly on Chang Apana; six novels and over forty films, mostly with white leads, made him famous and later a byword for anti-Asian stereotyping.
Charmes
Charmes is a 1922 collection of 21 poems by French poet Paul Valéry, whose title plays on the Latin carmina, meaning both "poems" and "magic chants."
Charudatta
Charudatta (Cārudatta, चारुदत्त) is the virtuous but impoverished Brahmin hero of two related Sanskrit dramas, Bhāsa's four-act Cārudatta and Śūdraka's ten-act Mṛcchakaṭika, both set in Ujjayini.
Charyapada
Charyapada (চর্যাপদ), also called Charyagiti, is a collection of about 47 mystical Buddhist songs composed between the 8th and 12th centuries, the earliest known Bengali poetry.
Chaste (Marvel Comics)
The Chaste is a Marvel Comics order of mystic martial artists led by the blind sensei Stick, created by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, first appearing in Daredevil #187 (October 1982). It fights the ninja clan the Hand and trained Daredevil and Elektra; it also appears in the MCU Daredevil and Defenders series.
Chaturdashpadi Kabitabali
Chaturdashpadi Kabitabali (চতুর্দ্দশপদী-কবিতাবলি) is an 1866 collection of Bengali sonnets by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, written in Versailles and printed in Calcutta, the first sonnet book in Bengali literature.
Chatushkone
Chatushkone (চতুষ্কোণ, "four-cornered") is a Bengali psychological novel by Manik Bandopadhyay, first published in 1942, exploring the repressed inner lives of its characters through a Freudian framework.
Chaurapanchasika
Chaurapanchasika (Caurapañcāśikā), meaning "Fifty Stanzas of the Thief", is a Sanskrit love lyric of fifty stanzas ascribed to Bilhana, an 11th-century Kashmiri poet, each verse beginning "even now".
Chaurasi Vaishnavan ki Varta
Chaurasi Vaishnavan ki Varta (चौरासी वैष्णवन की वार्ता), the Account of the Eighty-Four Vaishnavas, is a Braj Bhasha hagiographic collection on the 84 disciples of Vallabhacharya, founder of the Pushtimarg.
Chautha Saptak
Chautha Saptak (चौथा सप्तक) is a 1979 anthology of poems by seven Hindi poets, edited by Agyeya, carrying his Saptak series into the post-1960 generation.
Chbab Srey
Chbab Srey (ច្បាប់ស្រី, "rules for women") is a Cambodian conduct poem in which a mother teaches her daughter to serve her husband; schools required memorizing it until 2007.
Chbap
Chbap (ច្បាប់, also romanized cpap or chbab) is a genre of Khmer didactic literature, rhyming verse transmitting moral codes of conduct, known in Cambodia since the 17th century.
Cheburashka
Cheburashka (Чебурашка) is a big-eared fictional creature created by Eduard Uspensky in 1966, made famous by Roman Kachanov's 1969 Soyuzmultfilm stop-motion films, later adapted in Japan and by a 2023 Russian hit film.
Chemmeen
Chemmeen (Malayalam: ചെമ്മീൻ, meaning "prawn") is a 1956 Malayalam novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, a tragic love story set among the fisherfolk of coastal Kerala that won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Cheongguyeongeon
Cheongguyeongeon (청구영언) is a Korean anthology of sijo, the three-line lyric song of the Joseon dynasty, compiled in 1728 by the professional singer Kim Cheontaek.
Cheoyongga
Cheoyongga (처용가, "Song of Cheoyong") is the last surviving hyangga of Silla, dated 879, preserved in the Samguk yusa and the source of the exorcistic Cheoyongmu court dance.
CHERUB
CHERUB is Robert Muchamore's young adult spy novel series (begun 2004 with The Recruit) about a fictional British intelligence branch using orphaned agents under 18; 17 novels plus the Henderson's Boys prequel series and graphic novels.
Cheryl Blossom
Cheryl Blossom, also known as Cheryl Marjorie Blossom, is a fictional character from Archie Comics. In the CW series Riverdale, she is a lesbian gothic heroine and the twin sister of Jason Blossom.
Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat is the Duchess's grinning cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), which vanishes leaving only its grin; added late to the book, it draws on the older idiom "grin like a Cheshire cat".
Chetavani
Chetavani (चेतावनी) is a Hindi literary title associated with Bharatendu Harishchandra, the father of modern Hindi literature, whose era is dated 1850–1885 and who wrote rajabhakti and rashtriya-bhakti verse.
Chevengur
Chevengur (Чевенгур) is a novel by Soviet writer Andrei Platonov, his only completed novel, written in the late 1920s but published in full only in 1988, about revolutionaries establishing communism in a steppe town.
Chha Mana Atha Guntha
Chha Mana Atha Guntha (ଛ ମାଣ ଆଠ ଗୁଣ୍ଠ, "Six Acres and Thirty-Two Decimals") is a 1902 Odia novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati, translated as Six Acres and a Third.
Chhabi O Gan
Chhabi O Gan (ছবি ও গান, "Pictures and Songs") is an 1884 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, his sixth book of verse, containing thirty poems.
Chharpatra
Chharpatra (ছাড়পত্র, "The Farewell Letter") is the first published poetry collection of Sukanta Bhattacharya, gathering 37 poems written between 1943 and 1947 and issued after the poet's death.