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Fortepian Szopena
"Fortepian Szopena" ("Chopin's Piano") is a lyric poem by the Polish Romantic poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, published in 1865 and inspired by Russian soldiers' destruction of Chopin's piano during the January Uprising.
Fortress Besieged
Fortress Besieged (围城, Weicheng) is a satirical novel by Qian Zhongshu, published in Shanghai in 1947, following Fang Hongjian through courtship, sham academia, and a disintegrating marriage.
Fortune favours the bold
Fortune favours the bold, also rendered fortune favours the brave, is a proverb stating luck helps the daring, with Latin roots in Terence's Phormio and Virgil's Aeneid.
Forward Prize for Best Collection
The Forward Prize for Best Collection is an annual £10,000 poetry award for the best collection published in the UK or Republic of Ireland, first awarded in 1992.
Forward Prizes for Poetry
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are annual awards for new poetry published in the United Kingdom and Ireland, first awarded in 1992 in four categories totaling £17,000.
Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault) is Umberto Eco's 1988 second novel about three Milan editors whose invented Templar conspiracy takes over their lives; published by Bompiani, translated 1989.
Four Branches of the Mabinogi
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi) are four interconnected Middle Welsh prose tales, compiled around 1100 and central to Welsh mythology.
Four Generations Under One Roof
Four Generations Under One Roof (四世同堂) is a million-character novel by the Chinese writer Lao She, written between 1944 and 1949 about a Beijing family's four generations under Japanese occupation.
Four Quartets
Four Quartets is T. S. Eliot's final cycle of four long poems, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, individually published 1936–1942 and collected in 1943, written in five-movement sonata form with a Beethoven string-quartet analogy.
Four Rhymes of Nostalgia
Four Rhymes of Nostalgia (乡愁四韵) is a 1974 poem in four stanzas by Taiwanese poet Yu Kwang-chung, the most often set to music of his works.
Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany
The Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany (四时田园杂兴, Sishi Tianyuan Zaxing) is a set of sixty quatrains on rural life by Southern Song poet Fan Chengda, written in 1186.
Four: A Divergent Collection
Four: A Divergent Collection (2014, HarperCollins) is Veronica Roth's companion volume of four pre-Divergent stories plus three Divergent scenes, narrated by Tobias Eaton, the trilogy's Dauntless instructor Four.
Fourth Prose
Fourth Prose (Четвёртая проза) is a short confessional, denunciatory autobiographical essay by Osip Mandelstam, dictated to his wife in winter 1929/30 and left unpublished in his lifetime.
Fourth Wing
Fourth Wing (2023) by Rebecca Yarros is the first book of the Empyrean romantasy series, following Violet Sorrengail at Basgiath War College's dragon-rider quadrant; a BookTok bestseller with a Prime Video adaptation ordered in 2026.
Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters
"Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters" ("Questions from a Worker Who Reads") is a 1935 poem by Bertolt Brecht asking who actually built the great cities and won the famous conquests.
Fragment
Fragment (Duanzhang, 断章) is a four-line poem written by Bian Zhilin in 1935 and collected in his volume Fish Eyes, among the most quoted poems of modern Chinese literature.
Frame story
Frame story (frame tale, frame narrative, story within a story): a narrative that surrounds another story or set of stories, from the Panchatantra and One Thousand and One Nights to Decameron, Canterbury Tales, and Frankenstein; frame versus embedded narrative, history, and theory.
Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde is the serial-killer villain of Thomas Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon, also called the Tooth Fairy. Portrayed by Tom Noonan (Manhunter 1986), Ralph Fiennes (Red Dragon 2002), and Richard Armitage (Hannibal S3).
Francisco Scaramanga
Francisco "Paco" Scaramanga, "The Man with the Golden Gun," is Ian Fleming's final Bond villain (1965 novel), named after his Eton schoolmate; Christopher Lee played him in the 1974 film with a $1m-per-hit fee and an assembled golden pistol.
Francophone African detective fiction
Francophone African detective fiction, in French le polar africain francophone, is crime and detective fiction in French by sub-Saharan African writers, shaped from the 1980s and known for social critique.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is Mary Shelley's Gothic novel about Victor Frankenstein, whose animated creature destroys him. Written at Geneva in 1816, published anonymously, revised in 1831, and often called the first science fiction novel.
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Frankenstein in Baghdad (فرانكشتاين في بغداد) is a 2013 novel by the Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi, in which a corpse assembled from bombing victims hunts for justice in occupied Baghdad.
Frankenstein's monster
Frankenstein's monster is the nameless creature Victor Frankenstein assembles and animates in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus: articulate and remorseful in the book, reimagined as a mute green brute by James Whale's 1931 film.
Frankissstein
Frankissstein: A Love Story is Jeanette Winterson's 2019 novel reimagining Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, interleaving 1816 Lake Geneva with a Brexit-era story of trans doctor Ry Shelley and AI professor Victor Stein; longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.
Franky (フランキー) (One Piece)
Franky (フランキー), real name Cutty Flam, is the cyborg shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates in One Piece; he built the Thousand Sunny from Adam wood, joined as the seventh member, and has a 394,000,000-berry bounty.
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger's 1961 Little, Brown book collecting the New Yorker stories "Franny" (1955) and "Zooey" (1957), follows college student Franny Glass's spiritual breakdown and the Jesus Prayer, resolved by her brother Zooey; a number-one bestseller with hostile early reviews.
Frans Masereel
Frans Masereel (1889–1972), Belgian Flemish printmaker and painter, pioneer of the wordless woodcut novel with works like Mon livre d'heures and La Ville; pacifist imagery influenced Ward, Spiegelman, Drooker.
Franziska Linkerhand
Franziska Linkerhand is an unfinished novel by the East German writer Brigitte Reimann, published posthumously in 1974. It follows a young architect whose utopian plans collide with GDR bureaucracy.
Fraszki
Fraszki is Jan Kochanowski's 1584 Kraków collection of about 300 short, witty Polish poems, written over nearly 25 years in three books, which gave the fraszka genre its name.
Frauendienst
The Frauendienst is a largely fictional Middle High German verse narrative of 1255 by Ulrich von Liechtenstein, presenting itself as his autobiography as a servant of ladies.