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Essays (Montaigne)
Essais (Essays), Michel de Montaigne's three-book French prose collection, written over twenty years to 1592; editions of 1580, 1588 (Bordeaux Copy), and 1595 (Marie de Gournay); origin of the essay genre.
Essays in Idleness
Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) is an early 14th-century Japanese essay collection of 244 short sections by the poet and Buddhist priest Kenkō, ranked among the three great essay collections of classical Japanese literature.
Essays of Elia
Essays of Elia, Charles Lamb's familiar essays published pseudonymously as "Elia" in the London Magazine from 1820, collected in 1823 with Last Essays of Elia in 1833, foundational works of the English personal essay.
Esther Waters
Esther Waters is an 1894 novel by the Irish writer George Moore, following a devout kitchen maid who is seduced and abandoned and chooses to raise her illegitimate son alone.
Estoire del Saint Graal
The Estoire del Saint Graal is an anonymous Old French prose romance of the early 13th century that recounts the Holy Grail's origins and opens the Lancelot-Grail cycle.
Estuans intrinsecus
Estuans intrinsecus, also known as the Confession of Golias, is a famous twelfth-century Latin goliardic poem by the anonymous Archpoet, written at Pavia in 1163 and later set by Carl Orff in his Carmina Burana.
Eteriani
Eteriani (ეთერიანი, "the tale of Eteri") is a Georgian folk lyrical-romantic epic of the tragic love of Abesalom and Eteri, surviving in roughly 70 oral texts.
Eternals (comics)
Eternals, also called The Eternals, is a Marvel Comics property created by Jack Kirby, debuting July 1976 in a 19-issue series about immortal beings made by the Celestials to fight the Deviants, later revived by Gaiman and Gillen.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's 1911 novella (begun as the French exercise Hiver), is set in Starkfield, Massachusetts, and told by a frame-narrator engineer; unlike her society novels, it is her most celebrated rural tragedy of duty, desire, and a crippling sled crash.
Éthiopiques
Éthiopiques is the title of three works: a 1956 poetry collection by Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor, a Dakar journal founded in 1975, and Heliodorus's ancient Greek novel.
Eu e Outras Poesias
Eu e Outras Poesias, shortened to Eu, is the only book of poetry by Brazilian poet Augusto dos Anjos, self-published in Rio de Janeiro in 1912.
Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин)
Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин), Pushkin's 1823–1831 novel in verse in the 14-line Onegin stanza; basis of Tchaikovsky's opera; the celebrated Nabokov 1964 translation; ~40 English versions exist.
Eugene Porter
Eugene Porter is a fictional character in the comic book series The Walking Dead, created by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard and first appearing in 2008.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac's 1833–1834 realist novel set in Saumur, part of La Comédie humaine's Scènes de la vie de province; first great public success of Balzac, translated by Dostoevsky in 1844, repeatedly adapted for film and television.
Eulogy on King Philip
Eulogy on King Philip is an 1836 speech by William Apess, a Pequot Methodist minister, delivered in Boston and defending Metacomet, or King Philip, as equal to Washington.
Euphoria (King novel)
Euphoria (2014) is Lily King's fourth novel, a historical fiction reimagining of Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson's 1933 New Guinea love triangle as Nell Stone, Fen, and Andrew Bankson; winner of the first Kirkus Prize for Fiction.
Euphues
Euphues is the hero of John Lyly's two Elizabethan prose fictions, The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580), whose ornate style gave its name to euphuism.
Eurindia
Eurindia, a 1924 book by the Argentine essayist Ricardo Rojas, sets out an aesthetic doctrine for Argentina built on fusing Hispanic and Indigenous American cultural values into one cultural entity.
Eurotrash (novel)
Eurotrash is a 2021 autofictional novel by Swiss writer Christian Kracht, marketed as a sequel to Faserland. Its narrator Christian Kracht travels by taxi through Switzerland with his dying mother, giving away 600,000 francs of arms-industry wealth; shortlisted for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2021.
Eustace Scrubb
Eustace Clarence Scrubb is a fictional boy in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, cousin of the Pevensies, appearing in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle; transformed into a dragon and reformed by Aslan, companion of Jill Pole.
Eva Luna
Eva Luna is a 1987 novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, her third, following a poor orphaned young woman who rises through her gift for storytelling.
Evangeline
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 dactylic-hexameter narrative poem about an Acadian woman's lifelong search for Gabriel after the 1755 British expulsion of the Acadians.
Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor
Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor, or Historia evangelica, is a Latin verse rendering of the gospels in about 3,200 hexameter lines, composed around 330 CE by the Spanish presbyter Juvencus.
Evelina
Evelina, or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, is an epistolary novel by Frances Burney, published anonymously in 1778 to immediate critical and commercial success.
Even a Replica Can Fall in Love
Even a Replica Can Fall in Love (レプリカだって、恋をする。, Replica Datte, Koi o Suru) is a Dengeki Bunko light novel series by Harunadon and raemz about Nao, a replica who lives Sunao Aikawa's life until she falls in love; Yen Press licenses it in English.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is Tom Robbins's 1976 counterculture novel about Sissy Hankshaw, a hitchhiker with enormous thumbs, the Rubber Rose Ranch cowgirls, and its poorly received 1994 Gus Van Sant film.
Even Given the Worthless "Appraiser" Class, I'm Actually the Strongest
Even Given the Worthless "Appraiser" Class, I'm Actually the Strongest (不遇職【鑑定士】が実は最強だった) is a fantasy light novel by Ibarakino about Ein, whose Appraiser job becomes strongest via a spirit eye; manga finished April 2025, 16 volumes; 12-episode anime aired January–March 2025 on Tokyo MX.
Even If You Slit My Mouth
Even If You Slit My Mouth is a Japanese romance manga by Akari Kajimoto. It is based on the Kuchisake-onna legend and follows a yōkai.
Evening Question
Evening Question (Hungarian: Esti kérdés) is a philosophical poem by Mihály Babits, begun in 1908 and published in 1911, asking what the world's beauty is for.
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки) is a two-volume 1831–1832 collection of eight stories by Nikolai Gogol, blending Ukrainian village life with folk demons and witches.