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Eragon
Eragon is Christopher Paolini's 2003 young adult fantasy novel, book one of the Inheritance Cycle about farm boy Dragon Rider Eragon and his dragon Saphira in Alagaësia. Self-published by his family, then acquired by Knopf, it anchors a series that sold over 40 million copies and spawned a 2006 film and a Disney+ series.
Erasure (novel)
Erasure (2001) is Percival Everett's satirical novel about Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a Black experimental novelist whose parody of ghetto literature, My Pafology, written as Stagg R. Leigh, becomes a bestseller; adapted into the Oscar-winning 2023 film American Fiction.
Erdeniin Tobchi
Erdeniin Tobchi (Эрдэнийн товч), fully "Precious Summary of the Origins of the Khans", is a Mongolian chronicle completed in 1662 by the Ordos nobleman Sagang Sechen, covering Mongol history to the mid-seventeenth century.
Erec and Enide
Erec and Enide (Old French Erec et Enide) is a verse Arthurian romance by the twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes and the first known Arthurian romance.
Erewhon
Erewhon; Or, Over the Range, Samuel Butler's 1872 satirical utopian novel (title evoking 'nowhere'), set in a country where illness is crime and machines were destroyed; source of the Book of the Machines.
Ergenekon Epic
The Ergenekon Epic (Ergenekon Destanı) is a Turkic origin epic, first written down in 1307, in which a defeated people escapes a hidden valley by melting an iron mountain.
Ergodic literature
Ergodic literature, coined by Espen J. Aarseth in Cybertext (1997), is literature requiring nontrivial reader effort to traverse, spanning hypertext, computer games, MUDs, the I Ching, and experimental print works like Cain's Jawbone.
Eric Northman
Eric Northman is a fictional vampire, a central character in the HBO series True Blood (2008–2014) played by Alexander Skarsgård, who originated in Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels.
Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)
Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, is the masked, disfigured genius antagonist of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra; architect of the Paris Opera's cellars, composer of Don Juan Triumphant, and the source of the 1925 film and 1986 Lloyd Webber musical.
Erinnerung an die Marie A.
"Erinnerung an die Marie A." ("Remembering Marie A.") is a lyric love poem by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1920 and first published in 1927 in his first collection, Hauspostille.
Erke Pai'an Jingqi
Erke Pai'an Jingqi (二刻拍案惊奇, "Second Collection of Slapping the Table in Amazement") is a 1632 collection of 39 vernacular Chinese short stories by the Ming writer Ling Mengchu.
Erlkönig
Erlkönig is a 1782 ballad by Goethe in which a father rides through the night with his terror-stricken son, who dies in his father's arms.
Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan
Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan (儿女英雄传, The Story of Heroic Sons and Daughters), originally titled Jinyu Yuan, is a forty-chapter Qing dynasty novel by the Manchu bannerman Wen Kang.
Ero guro (エログロ)
Ero guro (エログロ), short for ero-guro-nansensu, was a Japanese mass culture movement of the Taishō and early Shōwa eras combining the erotic, grotesque, and nonsensical in literature, magazines, and film, associated with Edogawa Ranpo, Yumeno Kyūsaku, and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
Eroge
Eroge (エロゲ) is the Japanese umbrella term for erotic video games, originating with Night Life (1982); mostly visual novels marketed to heterosexual men, with subgenres like nukige and nakige.
Eromanga Sensei (エロマンガ先生)
Eromanga Sensei (エロマンガ先生) is a 13-volume Japanese light novel series by Tsukasa Fushimi and Kanzaki Hiro (Dengeki Bunko, 2013–2022) about novelist Masamune Izumi and his shut-in step-sister Sagiri, his secret illustrator; adapted into a 2017 A-1 Pictures anime.
Erotic fiction
Erotic fiction is fiction written primarily to arouse, with explicit sex as a defining requirement, distinct from romance. Key facts: U.S. un-banning 1959-1966, Miller v. California 1973, gay pulp waves, e-book boom, danmei censorship in China.
Erotic literature
Erotic literature, or erotica, is written work on sexual desire and activity, spanning novels, poetry, drama, and sex manuals; distinct from pornography, a word unrecorded in English before 1842, and shaped by obscenity law from the 1857 Act and Hicklin test to modern erotic romance.
Erpai
Erpai (二拍) combines two collections of late Ming vernacular short stories, Chuke Pai'an Jingqi (1628) and Erke Pai'an Jingqi (1632), written by Ling Mengchu and paired with the Sanyan trilogy.
Eruption (novel)
Eruption (novel) is a techno-thriller about Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano. It features a scientist racing to prevent a catastrophic eruption and a deadly chemical weapons threat.
Esaú e Jacó
Esaú e Jacó (Esau and Jacob) is a 1904 novel by Machado de Assis about twin brothers whose rivalry allegorizes Brazil's shift from empire to republic.
Eşber
Eşber is an 1880 verse drama in Ottoman Turkish by Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, centered on Alexander the Great's Indian campaign, and among his few stageable plays.
Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
Esmeralda (La Esmeralda) is the Romani street dancer of Victor Hugo's 1831 Notre-Dame de Paris, loved by Frollo, Phoebus, Gringoire, and Quasimodo, hanged in the novel but surviving in the 1996 Disney film and countless stage and screen adaptations.
Espaço
Espaço is the short title by which Espaço espanhol, a prose book by Brazilian modernist poet Murilo Mendes, is known in bibliographies; it was written from 1966 to 1969.
Espantapájaros
Espantapájaros is a 1932 poetry collection by the Argentine avant-garde poet Oliverio Girondo, remembered for its giant papier-mâché scarecrow paraded through Buenos Aires as publicity.
Espejo
Espejo, fully titled Espejo, poemas antiguos, is a 1933 book of poems by the Mexican writer Salvador Novo recalling his childhood and adolescence in direct, transparent language.
Esperanto literature
Esperanto literature comprises translated and original fiction, poetry, drama, and essays in Esperanto, the language L. L. Zamenhof published in 1887. Key figures: Kálmán Kalocsay, William Auld; four historical periods; over 10,000 translations.
Esperanza Rising
Esperanza Rising (Esperanza Renace) is Pam Muñoz Ryan's 2000 Scholastic Press historical fiction novel about Esperanza Ortega, a wealthy Mexican girl who becomes a California migrant farm worker during the Great Depression; it won the 2002 Pura Belpré Award.
Espumas Flutuantes
Espumas Flutuantes (Floating Foams) is an 1870 poetry collection by the Brazilian Romantic poet Castro Alves, printed in Bahia and the only book he published while alive.
Essay
Essay: short exploratory prose nonfiction, invented by Michel de Montaigne (Essais, 1580; dated March 1571 by the 1911 Britannica), from French essai, a trial. Distinguished from treatises by personal voice and tolerant, wandering form.