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Dzhan
Dzhan (Джан), also translated as Soul, is a novella by the Soviet writer Andrey Platonov, written in 1935 about an economist sent to save a destitute desert people.
Dziady (poem)
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) is Adam Mickiewicz's four-part romantic drama cycle, written 1820-1832 and built on a folk All Souls rite for summoning ancestral spirits; Parts II and IV appeared in 1823, Part III in 1832, and its 1968 ban in communist Poland sparked mass protests.
E Tipu E Rea
E Tipu E Rea is a Māori whakatauākī, a proverb written by Sir Āpirana Ngata in 1949, urging Māori youth to grow in their own era.
Eagle or Sun?
Eagle or Sun? (¿Águila o sol?) is a 1951 collection of prose poems by the Mexican writer and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, marking his turn to surrealism.
Early Sorrows
Early Sorrows (Rani jadi) is a 1969 book of linked stories by Danilo Kiš about the wartime childhood of a boy whose Jewish father is deported to a death camp.
Ears of Corn Under Your Sickle
Ears of Corn Under Your Sickle (Belarusian: Kalasy pad siarpom tvaim) is a historical novel by Uladzimir Karatkievich whose published part depicts preparations for the 1863 uprising, serialized in 1965.
Earth's Children
Earth's Children is Jean M. Auel's six-novel prehistoric series (1980-2011) following Ayla, a Cro-Magnon girl raised by Neanderthals in Ice Age Europe; over 45 million copies sold in 30 languages.
Earthsea
Earthsea is Ursula K. Le Guin's fantasy archipelago, setting of six books from A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) to The Other Wind (2001), centered on Ged, true-name magic, balance, and Taoist themes.
East Lynne
East Lynne is an 1861 English sensation novel by Ellen Wood, who wrote as Mrs Henry Wood, and one of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century.
East of Eden (novel)
East of Eden is a 1952 novel by John Steinbeck that retells the story of Cain and Abel through the Trask and Hamilton families in California's Salinas Valley.
Easter, 1916
"Easter, 1916" is W. B. Yeats's poem on the Easter Rising of April 1916, his best-known political poem, famous for the refrain "A terrible beauty is born".
Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord
Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord (Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Sou Akaike and Kururi, published by Overlap, licensed in English by Seven Seas, with a manga by Maro Aoiro and a TV anime that premiered January 2026.
Eaters of the Dead
Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton's 1976 Knopf novel, retells Beowulf as a translated manuscript of the real traveler Ibn Fadlan among Vikings in A.D. 922; reissued as The 13th Warrior for the 1999 Antonio Banderas film.
Ebenezer Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge is the miser protagonist of Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), reformed by Jacob Marley's ghost and three Christmas spirits; his name now means a stingy, coldhearted person.
Ebook
Ebook: a book published in digital form, read on e-readers, tablets, or computers. Also called electronic book, e-book. Key facts: EPUB is the dominant open standard (W3C EPUB 3.3); purchases are licenses, not owned objects; meta-analyses show a small paper-reading comprehension advantage (g = -0.21).
Echoes of an Autobiography
Echoes of an Autobiography (أصداء السيرة الذاتية) is a 1995 collection of over 200 very short prose pieces by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.
Eclipse (Meyer novel)
Eclipse (2007) is Stephenie Meyer's third Twilight saga novel, in which Bella Swan's love triangle with Edward Cullen and Jacob Black collides with Victoria's vampire army.
Eclogues
The Eclogues, also known as the Bucolica, are a collection of ten pastoral poems by the Roman poet Vergil, written during the civil wars of the late 40s BCE.
Écriture féminine
Écriture féminine (feminine writing) is a French feminist literary theory concept launched by Hélène Cixous in 1975, associated with Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva, denoting body-centered writing against phallocentric tradition, not literature by women.
Edda
Edda (Eddur) names two medieval Icelandic books: the anonymous Poetic Edda of mythological and heroic poems (Codex Regius, c. 1270) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (c. 1220–1230), the fullest source for Norse mythology.
Edgar Awards
The Edgar Awards, formally the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, are annual prizes from Mystery Writers of America honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television.
Edige
Edige (also Yedige or Edigu) is a Turkic heroic epic, or dastan, about Edigu, the emir who led the Golden Horde from 1395 to 1419 and founded the Nogai Horde.
Editing
Editing: the process of improving a text for publication, spanning developmental editing (structure, plot), line editing (sentence-level style), copyediting (grammar, consistency), and proofreading, with costs, standards, and AI-era changes.
Edmond Dantès
Edmond Dantès, protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (serialized 1844-1846): a Marseille sailor imprisoned 14 years in the Château d'If who escapes, finds a treasure, and returns as the Count of Monte Cristo.
Edmund Pevensie
Edmund Pevensie, King Edmund the Just, is the third Pevensie child in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia; he betrays his siblings to the White Witch for enchanted Turkish Delight, is redeemed by Aslan's sacrifice, and reigns as a just king.
Edo kaidan
Edo kaidan (江戸怪談) are the ghost stories and tales of the strange that circulated in Japan during the Edo period (1600–1867), told orally, on stage, and in woodblock-printed collections.
Educación popular
Educación popular, written by the Argentine educator Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and published in Santiago de Chile in 1849, sets out a program of state-funded mass schooling.
Educated
Educated is a 2018 memoir by Tara Westover about her childhood in a survivalist Mormon family in rural Idaho and her path to a PhD at Cambridge.
Edward Cullen
Edward Cullen, born Edward Anthony Masen, is the telepathic vampire hero of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, beginning in 2005, and the love interest of Bella Swan.
Eeyore
Eeyore is the old grey donkey of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), named for a donkey's bray, based on Christopher Robin Milne's toy, known for gloom, lost tail, NYPL display, 2022 public domain.