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Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki
Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (椿説弓張月) is a yomihon, or illustrated reading book, by Kyokutei Bakin with illustrations by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Edo in five parts from 1807 to 1811.
Chinthavishtayaya Sita
Chinthavishtayaya Sita (ചിന്താവിഷ്ടയായ സീത), translated as Sita Immersed in Reflection, is a Malayalam khandakavya by Kumaran Asan published in 1919, offering a critical portrayal of Sita abandoned by Rama.
Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem
Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem (ちるらん 新撰組鎮魂歌, also ちるらん にぶんの壱 spinoff) is a historical seinen manga by Shinya Umemura and Eiji Hashimoto in Monthly Comic Zenon about the Bakumatsu Shinsengumi and Hijikata Toshizo; its TBS/U-NEXT/THE SEVEN live-action adaptation streamed worldwide as Song of the Samurai, reaching 5th on HBO Max daily rankings.
Chitralekha
Chitralekha (चित्रलेखा) is a Hindi philosophical novel by Bhagwati Charan Verma, first published in 1934 and considered his best work, which questions what sin and virtue are through the life of a courtesan in Gupta-era Pataliputra.
Chitrayogam
Chitrayogam (ചിത്രയോഗം), also titled Tharavali Chandrasenam, is a Malayalam mahakavya of 18 songs and 1,591 slokas by Vallathol Narayana Menon, composed in the Manipravalam style; a printed edition appeared in 1923.
Chitta Lahu
Chitta Lahu (Punjabi: ਚਿੱਟਾ ਲਹੂ, "White Blood") is a 1932 Punjabi novel by Nanak Singh, his first popular success and a milestone that steered the Punjabi novel toward realism.
Chittacobra
Chittacobra (चित्तकोबरा) is a 1979 Hindi novel by Mridula Garg about a married woman's affair, whose frank treatment of female desire sparked an obscenity case.
Chivalric fiction
Chivalric fiction is a Chinese narrative tradition centered on the xia, or knight-errant, running from Warring States historiography to the modern wuxia novel and cinema.
Chivalric romance
Chivalric romance: medieval vernacular narratives of knightly adventure and courtly love, from Chrétien de Troyes and the Arthurian prose cycles to Malory, distinguished from the chanson de geste by focus on individual knights.
Chivalry of a Failed Knight (落第騎士の英雄譚)
Chivalry of a Failed Knight (落第騎士の英雄譚, Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry) is a Riku Misora light novel (GA Bunko) about F-rank knight Ikki Kurogane and princess Stella Vermillion, adapted into a 12-episode SILVER LINK./Nexus anime in October 2015.
Chokusenshū
Chokusenshū (勅撰集) are Japanese poetry anthologies compiled by imperial or retired-emperor command, most often meaning the twenty-one imperial waka anthologies from the Kokin wakashū (905) to the Shin'yokukokinsū (1439).
Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure is the Bantam children's gamebook series launched in 1979 with The Cave of Time, written in second person with branching choices and multiple endings; 184 original titles, over 250 million copies, now published by Chooseco.
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) is Carlo Levi's 1945 memoir of his 1935 Fascist-era confino in Lucania, southern Italy; adapted by Francesco Rosi into a 1979 film in 150-minute theatrical and four-part television versions.
Christabel (poem)
Christabel is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's unfinished Gothic narrative poem about the maiden Christabel and the mysterious Geraldine; begun 1797-1800, excluded from Lyrical Ballads, published by John Murray in 1816, influential on Scott's verse form.
Christie Golden
Christie Golden (born 1963, Atlanta) is an American author of Star Trek, Star Wars, StarCraft, World of Warcraft, and Assassin's Creed tie-in novels, plus original fantasy; her first novel was Vampire of the Mists (1991), and she won the IAMTW Faust Award in 2017.
Christine Daaé
Christine Daaé is the fictional Swedish soprano heroine of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), loved by Erik the Phantom and Raoul de Chagny, said to be inspired by Christina Nilsson, and the lead female role in the 1986 Lloyd Webber musical and 2004 film.
Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin is the boy in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books (1924–1928), named for Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne (1920–1996), whose toys inspired Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, and Kanga.
Chronica Hungarorum
Chronica Hungarorum (A magyarok krónikája) is a chronicle of Hungarian history by János Thuróczy, first printed in 1488, covering the Hungarians from mythical origins to 1487.
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant is a 1996 novel by the Chinese writer Yu Hua about a silk-mill worker who sells his blood to support his family.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is Gabriel García Márquez's 1981 novella reconstructing the announced murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario twins, told by an unnamed narrator 27 years later in five nonlinear parts.
Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, an Armenian work also called Zhamanakagrutyun, covers events from 952 to 1136, with a continuation by Gregory the Priest to 1162.
Chronicles
The Chronicles are a French prose chronicle by Jean Froissart covering Western European wars from 1326 to 1400, the main source for the early Hundred Years' War.
Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World
Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World (Tensei Kizoku no Isekai Boukenroku) is a Yashu light novel series about Kazuya Shiina, reincarnated as noble Cain von Silford with god-given cheat stats; manga by nini, 2023 anime by EMT Squared/Magic Bus.
Chronicles of Barsetshire
The Chronicles of Barsetshire is Anthony Trollope's six-novel sequence (1855-1867), set in the fictional county of Barsetshire and cathedral city of Barchester, covering clergy, courtship, and provincial Victorian life; collected by Chapman and Hall in 1878-1879 and later continued by Angela Thirkell.
Chrono Crusade
Chrono Crusade (クロノクルセイド, Kurono Kuruseido), originally titled Chrno Crusade, is Daisuke Moriyama's eight-volume dark-fantasy manga (1998–2004, Monthly Comic Dragon/Dragon Age) about exorcist Rosette Christopher and the demon Chrono in 1928 New York, adapted into a 24-episode 2003–2004 Gonzo anime.
Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: the scholarly reconstruction of the order and dates of Shakespeare's roughly 36-38 plays. Also called Shakespeare play dating. Built from Stationers' Register entries, performance records, Francis Meres's 1598 list, and stylometrics; first systematized by Edmond Malone in 1778, standardized via Wells and Taylor's 1987 Oxford Textual Companion; no play has a fixed composition date.
Chuanqi
Chuanqi (传奇, "transmission of the strange") is a form of classical Chinese short story, associated above all with the Tang dynasty and known for plotted, marvel-filled fiction.
Chuck Tingle
Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous American author of absurdist queer erotica ("Tinglers") such as Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt, a two-time Hugo finalist who also writes Tor Nightfire horror novels including Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays.
Chuhai Lips: Canned Flavor of Married Women
Chuhai Lips: Canned Flavor of Married Women (人妻の唇は缶チューハイの味がして) is a full-color erotic omnibus manga by Chinjao Musume and Tama Nogami on Kodansha's Yanmaga Web since 2021, about student Tsuyoshi and married women, adapted into a 2025 Deregula anime.
Chunhyangga
Chunhyangga (춘향가) is a Korean pansori, or sung narrative, that tells of the love between Chunhyang and Yi Mongryong of Namwon and her resistance to a corrupt magistrate.