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Aadizookaanag
Aadizookaanag (singular aadizookaan) are the sacred stories of the Anishinaabeg, Ojibwe and related peoples of the Great Lakes, traditionally told only in winter and featuring the trickster Nanabozho.
Aag Ka Darya
Aag Ka Darya (آگ کا دریا, River of Fire) is an Urdu novel by Qurratulain Hyder, published in the late 1950s and considered a masterpiece of partition fiction.
Aalahayude Penmakkal
Aalahayude Penmakkal, also known as Daughters of Alaha, is Sarah Joseph's first Malayalam novel, published in 1999. Set in 1950s Thrissur, it won the Vayalar Ramavarma Literary Award.
Aansu
Aansu (आँसू, "Tears") is a 1925 long lyric poem by the Hindi poet Jaishankar Prasad, a major work of the Chhayavad movement that voices grief and longing for a separated beloved.
Aarachaar
Aarachaar (ആരാച്ചാർ), meaning "Executioner," is a 2012 Malayalam novel by K. R. Meera set in Bengal, following a young woman appointed the world's first female executioner.
Aaron (The Walking Dead)
Aaron is a fictional recruiter for the Alexandria Safe-Zone in The Walking Dead, created by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, debuting in Image Comics Issue 67 (November 11, 2009); he brought Rick's group into Alexandria, dated Eric then Paul "Jesus" Monroe, survives to Issue 193, and is played by Ross Marquand on AMC's TV series.
Aathichoodi
Aathichoodi (ஆத்திச்சூடி), also spelled Aathichudi, is a Tamil moral work of 109 one-line verses by the 12th-century poet Avvaiyar, arranged in Tamil alphabetical order to teach children good conduct.
Aavaan
Aavaan (आवां) is a 1999 Hindi novel by Chitra Mudgal, set in Mumbai's trade union world and winning the Vyas Samman in 2003, making Mudgal the first woman to receive it.
Abai's Path
Abai's Path (Абай жолы) is a four-volume historical-biographical novel by Kazakh writer Mukhtar Auezov about the poet Abai Kunanbayev, written over 15 years and winning Stalin and Lenin Prizes.
Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona
Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came) is a 1922 book by Magema Fuze, the first history of black people written in isiZulu.
Abar Ashibo Phire
Abar Ashibo Phire (আবার আসিব ফিরে, "I shall return again") is one of the 62 sonnets of Jibanananda Das's Rupasi Bangla, published posthumously in 1957, promising a return to Bengal after death as a bird.
Abarat
Abarat is a series of illustrated young adult fantasy novels by English author and artist Clive Barker, set on 25 islands that each embody an hour of the day.
Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר)
Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר, 1918–1987), Hebrew poet, Vilna ghetto partisan leader, head of the Nakam avengers, Givati Brigade culture officer, Israel Prize 1970 laureate, and Diaspora Museum founder.
Abbas and Gulnaz
Abbas and Gulnaz (Abbas və Gülgəz) is an Azerbaijani love dastan based on ashig Abbas Tufarqanlı's poems and his struggle to win back Gülgəz from Shah Abbas I.
Abbé Faria (The Count of Monte Cristo)
Abbé Faria is the imprisoned Italian priest-mentor in Dumas's 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) who educates Edmond Dantès, names his betrayers, and bequeaths the Monte Cristo treasure; based on the real hypnotist Abbé de Faria.
Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar
Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar (1887–1963) was a Turkish novelist, memoirist, and literary critic best known for nostalgic works portraying Istanbul and the Bosphorus, including Fahim Bey ve Biz.
Abeir-Toril
Abeir-Toril, usually called Toril, is the fictional Earth-sized planet of the Forgotten Realms, Dungeons & Dragons' flagship campaign setting created by Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb. Its name means 'cradle of life'; 4th edition lore split it into twin worlds Abeir and Toril.
Abeng
Abeng is a 1984 coming-of-age novel by the Jamaican-American writer Michelle Cliff about Clare Savage, a twelve-year-old girl of mixed heritage in 1950s Jamaica; its sequel is No Telephone to Heaven.
Abhagir Swarga
Abhagir Swarga (অভাগীর স্বর্গ, "The Heaven of the Unfortunate") is a 1920s Bengali short story by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay about a poor Bagdi woman denied a crematory funeral because of her caste.
Abhangas of Tukaram
The Abhangas of Tukaram are the collected devotional verses of Tukaram, a seventeenth-century Marathi saint-poet of the Varkari tradition, gathered in the Tukaram Gatha, sung in Maharashtra for nearly four hundred years.
Abhisarika
Abhisarika (अभिसारिका) is, in Sanskrit poetics and dramaturgy, the heroine who bravely goes alone, often at night, to meet her beloved for union. She is the eighth nayika in Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra.
Abhishekanataka
Abhishekanataka, the Play of the Coronation, is a Sanskrit drama attributed to the ancient poet Bhasa, adapting the Ramayana from the Vali-Sugriva conflict to Rama's coronation.
Abhorsen
Abhorsen (2003) is Garth Nix's third Old Kingdom novel, concluding the Abhorsen Trilogy begun with Sabriel and Lirael, in which Lirael battles the Destroyer; the title also names the hereditary necromancer who lays the dead to rest with seven bells.
Abol Tabol
Abol Tabol (আবোল তাবোল) is a 1923 collection of Bengali nonsense verse for children by writer and illustrator Sukumar Ray, published nine days after his death and regarded as a foundational work of Bengali nonsense literature.
About Love
"About Love" (О любви) is an 1898 short story by Anton Chekhov, third and last in his "Little Trilogy," telling of landowner Alyokhin's unconsummated love for a married woman.
About This
About This (Russian: Pro eto) is a long poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in 1923 during his two-month break with Lilya Brik, about love threatened by everyday life.
Abqariyyat
Abqariyyat (عبقريات, "Geniuses") is a series of biographical essays by the Egyptian writer Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad, profiling figures he judged geniuses, chiefly Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphs.
Abraham Van Helsing
Abraham Van Helsing is the Dutch doctor, philosopher, and metaphysician of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, who diagnoses vampirism and leads the hunt that destroys Count Dracula; he has been portrayed by Edward Van Sloan, Peter Cushing, Hugh Jackman, and others.
Abrojos
Abrojos, Spanish for "thistles," is an 1887 book of 58 short poems by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in Santiago de Chile one year before Azul...
Absalom and Achitophel
Absalom and Achitophel is a 1681 political satire in heroic couplets by John Dryden, retelling Absalom's rebellion against King David as an allegory of the Exclusion Crisis.