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Emmanuel Goldstein
Emmanuel Goldstein is the fictional Enemy of the People in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): supposed Brotherhood leader, focus of the Two Minutes Hate, attributed author of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, modeled on Leon Trotsky, and possibly a Party invention.
Emperor Shaka the Great
Emperor Shaka the Great (UNodumehlezi KaMenzi) is a 1979 Zulu epic poem by the South African poet Mazisi Kunene, recounting the life of Shaka, founder of the Zulu empire.
Empire of AI
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI is a 2025 investigative nonfiction work. It examines how major AI firms extract global data and labor.
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain is Patrick Radden Keefe's 2021 narrative nonfiction account of the Sackler family and their role in the opioid crisis, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize.
En el teocalli de Cholula
"En el teocalli de Cholula" is an 1820 meditative poem by the Cuban poet José María Heredia, considered a precursor of romantic poetry in Hispanic America.
En la masmédula
En la masmédula is the final book of poetry by the Argentine avant-garde poet Oliverio Girondo, first published in 1954, an experiment with coined Spanish words.
En la sangre
En la sangre is an 1887 novel by the Argentine writer Eugenio Cambaceres, the Spanish American work most faithful to Zola's naturalism, dramatizing elite anxiety over immigration.
En Sarithiram
En Sarithiram (என் சரித்திரம், "My History") is the autobiography of U. V. Swaminatha Iyer, the Tamil scholar and manuscript hunter known as Tamil Thatha, serialized from 1940 to 1942 and published as a book in 1950.
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (EB11, 1910–1911): 29-volume encyclopedia edited by Hugh Chisholm, published by Cambridge University Press, with 1,507 contributors, 44 million words, and public-domain status.
Encyclopedia Brown
Encyclopedia Brown is Donald J. Sobol's children's mystery series (1963-2012, 29 books) starring ten-year-old Leroy Brown of Idaville, who solves ten fair-play mysteries per book with solutions printed at the back for readers to match.
Encyclopedic novel
The encyclopedic novel, also called encyclopedic fiction, is lengthy fiction weaving in specialized knowledge from science, art, and history, a term introduced by Edward Mendelson in 1976.
End of Watch (novel)
End of Watch (2016), Stephen King's Scribner novel, concludes the Bill Hodges Trilogy after Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers: killer Brady Hartsfield awakens with new powers and drives victims to suicide via a hijacked Zappit console.
Endless Field
Endless Field (Cánh đồng bất tận) is a 2005 Vietnamese novella by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư about a duck-herding father, Út Vũ, and children Nương and Điền in the Mekong Delta; censored in 2006, it won ASEAN and Liberaturpreis honors and became the 2010 film The Floating Lives.
Endling (2025 novel)
Endling is Maria Reva's 2025 debut novel (Doubleday, Virago, Knopf Canada, 352 pp.), a satirical metafiction about a snail scientist, romance tours, kidnapped bachelors, Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and a fake ending; longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.
Enduring Love
Enduring Love is a 1997 novel by Ian McEwan in which a hot-air balloon accident draws science journalist Joe Rose into the orbit of a stalker with erotomania.
Endymion (poem)
Endymion: A Poetic Romance, John Keats's 4,050-line narrative poem on the Endymion myth, drafted 1817, published by Taylor & Hessey in April 1818, attacked by Blackwood's and the Quarterly Review.
Eneida
Eneida (Енеїда) is a burlesque-travesty poem by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky that reworks Virgil's Aeneid into the Ukrainian vernacular, published from 1798 and treated as the starting point of modern Ukrainian literature.
Eneit
The Eneit, also called the Eneasroman or Eneide, is Heinrich von Veldeke's Middle High German courtly romance of Aeneas, adapting Virgil and completed before 1190.
Enemies, A Love Story
Enemies, A Love Story (Sonim, di geshikhte fun a libe) is a 1966 Yiddish tragicomedy novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, set among Holocaust survivors in postwar New York.
Engführung
Engführung, translated as "The Straitening," is a long poem by Paul Celan, written in 1958 and published in 1959 as the closing poem of his collection Sprachgitter.
English as She Is Spoke
English as She Is Spoke (O novo guia da conversação em portuguez e inglez, 1855) by Pedro Carolino and José da Fonseca: a Portuguese-English phrasebook compiled via French with a dictionary, famous for absurd phrases like "to craunch the marmoset."
English Geetagalu
English Geetagalu (ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಗೀತಗಳು, "English Songs") is a 1921 Kannada collection of translated English poems by B.M. Srikantaiah, regarded as the founding work of modern Kannada lyric poetry.
English novel
The English novel is the tradition of British prose fiction usually dated from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), developed by Richardson and Fielding, and achieving critical acceptance with Austen and Scott in the early nineteenth century.
English poetry
English poetry: verse in the English language from Old English alliterative meter (Beowulf, four stresses, caesura) through Chaucer's iambic pentameter, Renaissance blank verse, and modern free verse.
English, August
English, August: An Indian Story is Upamanyu Chatterjee's 1988 first novel, following young IAS officer Agastya Sen through a year of training in the central Indian town of Madna.
Enigma Variations (novel)
Enigma Variations is André Aciman's 2017 novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) following the narrator Paul through five linked episodes of gender-shifting desire, its title echoing Elgar's Enigma Variations.
Enkidu
Enkidu, also known as Eabani, is the wild man of the Epic of Gilgamesh, created by the goddess Aruru as a counterpart to Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.
Enlik-Kebek
Enlik-Kebek (Еңлік — Кебек) is a tragedy by Kazakh writer Mukhtar Auezov, written in 1917 and generally regarded as the first professional play of Kazakh dramaturgy.
Ennis Del Mar
Ennis Del Mar is the protagonist of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain and its 2005 film, a repressed Wyoming ranch hand who carries on a twenty-year secret affair with Jack Twist, played by Heath Ledger.
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty) is an 1868 comedy by Alexander Ostrovsky satirizing bigotry through the social climber Glumov.