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Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian, or Conan the Cimmerian, is Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery hero, debuting in Weird Tales in December 1932, set in the Hyborian Age, later famous through Marvel comics, the 1982 Schwarzenegger film, and games.
Concord Hymn
Concord Hymn is an 1837 poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, written for Concord's Battle Monument and giving English the phrase "the shot heard round the world."
Confessio Amantis
Confessio Amantis, meaning "The Lover's Confession," is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower, written between 1385 and 1408 and framed as a confession to a priest of Venus.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask (Kamen no kokuhaku) is a 1949 novel by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, in which a young man hides his homosexual desires behind a mask of normalcy.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey's autobiographical account of his laudanum addiction, first published anonymously in 1821 and considered the first memoir of drug addiction.
Confieso que he vivido
Confieso que he vivido ("I confess that I have lived"), known in English as Memoirs, is the memoir of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, published posthumously in 1974.
Conflict (narrative)
Conflict (narrative), or narrative conflict, is the relation between a character's goal and a resistant force, divided into internal and external types such as character versus society.
Conflictos y armonías de las razas en América
Conflictos y armonías de las razas en América is an 1883 sociological and polemical book by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, extending his Facundo from politics into race.
Congo (novel)
Congo (1980) is Michael Crichton's techno-thriller and lost-world novel modeled on King Solomon's Mines, about an ERTS expedition to the Lost City of Zinj with Amy, a 620-sign gorilla based on Koko; Knopf, 348 pages, filmed by Paramount in 1995.
Coningsby
Coningsby, or, The New Generation, is an 1844 political novel by Benjamin Disraeli, traditionally seen as the first political novel in English and the first of his Young England trilogy.
Cönk
A cönk is an Ottoman and Turkish manuscript notebook, oblong and bound along its narrow edge, holding chiefly minstrel folk poetry. The oldest date to the 15th century.
Considerations on the Greatness and Decadence of the Romans
Considerations on the Greatness and Decadence of the Romans is a political-philosophical essay by Montesquieu, published anonymously in Amsterdam in 1734, which explains over ten centuries of Roman history through general human causes rather than fortune.
Consolation à M. du Périer
Consolation à M. du Périer is a consolation poem François de Malherbe wrote, probably in 1599, to his friend Du Périer on the death of his daughter.
Constructing The Lord of the Rings
Constructing The Lord of the Rings: how J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 sequel to The Hobbit grew over about 12 years into the 1954-55 three-volume novel, with draft details and the Marquette manuscripts.
Consuelo
Consuelo is an 1842 historical novel by George Sand following a poor orphaned singer who rises to fame as a prima donna in eighteenth-century Europe.
Contemporary Egyptian novel
The contemporary Egyptian novel is novel-length fiction written in Egypt from roughly the late twentieth century to the present, growing out of a realist tradition and absorbing social and political change.
Contemporary Egyptian poetry
Contemporary Egyptian poetry is modern poetry written in Egypt in literary Arabic and the Egyptian colloquial dialect, spanning classical metrical verse, free verse, and the prose poem.
Contemporary Lebanese literature
Contemporary Lebanese literature is the body of fiction, poetry, and memoir written in Arabic, French, and English since the Lebanese Civil War, much of it shaped by memory, trauma, and displacement.
Contemporary Syrian novel
The contemporary Syrian novel is Arabic-language long-form fiction by Syrian authors, pioneered by Hanna Mina and Abdal-Salam al-Ujayli and shaped since 2011 by war and displacement.
Contes et nouvelles en vers
Contes et nouvelles en vers (Tales and Novels in Verse) is a collection of licentious verse tales by Jean de La Fontaine, published in four parts from 1665 to 1674.
Continuations de Perceval
The Continuations de Perceval are four Old French verse poems of about 1200 to 1230 that carry Chrétien de Troyes's unfinished Perceval, ou le Conte du Graal forward to a conclusion.
Contos Gauchescos
Contos Gauchescos is a 1912 short-story collection by the Brazilian writer João Simões Lopes Neto, considered a central work of the literature of Rio Grande do Sul.
Contrapposto (novel)
Contrapposto is a 2026 novel by Dave Eggers that follows artist Robert Dibb and his lifelong friend Olympia Argyros from childhood in Indiana into their sixties.
Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman (Konbini ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese writer Sayaka Murata about Furukura Keiko, who has worked part-time in one Tokyo convenience store for 18 years.
Convergence (comics)
Convergence is a 2015 DC Comics crossover event built around a nine-part weekly series and forty tie-in miniseries that replaced DC's regular superhero line for two months.
Conversation About Dante
Conversation About Dante (Разговор о Данте) is an essay by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam on Dante's Divine Comedy, written in 1933 in Koktebel, Crimea.
Conversation in the Cathedral
Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral) is a 1969 political novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, portraying Peruvian society under the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría.
Conversation with a Stone
"Conversation with a Stone" (Polish: Rozmowa z kamieniem) is a 1962 dialogue poem by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska from her collection Salt, her most widely anthologized poem.
Conversations with Friends
Conversations with Friends is the 2017 debut novel of Irish writer Sally Rooney, about Dublin student Frances, her ex-girlfriend Bobbi, and the married couple they befriend.
Conversion of Kartli
The Conversion of Kartli (Georgian: Moktsevai Kartlisai) is an early medieval Georgian work combining a chronicle with the Life of Saint Nino, who converted King Mirian around 337.