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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais's five-book satirical giant cycle (1532–1564), also called Pantagruel; mock chronicle, humanist satire, Panurge's marriage question, oracle of the Bottle, banned but canonical.
Garibname
Garibname, also known as Garîb-nâme, is a mystical-didactic mesnevi in Anatolian Turkish completed by the Sufi poet Âşık Paşa in 1330, among the earliest works establishing Turkish as a literary language.
Garip
Garip is a 1941 poetry collection by Turkish poets Orhan Veli Kanık, Oktay Rifat, and Melih Cevdet Anday that launched a movement freeing Turkish poetry from meter and rhyme.
Garland of Meleager
The Garland of Meleager (Greek Stephanos, also translated Wreath) is an anthology of some 1,000 Greek epigrams compiled by the poet Meleager of Gadara about 100 B.C.
Gasa
Gasa (가사) is a Korean classical verse genre, established by the scholar-official sadaebu class in early Joseon, with unlimited four-beat lines that carry narrative and lyric content.
Gaspard de la nuit
Gaspard de la nuit, also the 1842 Aloysius Bertrand prose-poem collection, is Maurice Ravel's 1908 three-movement piano suite (Ondine, Le gibet, Scarbo), premiered by Ricardo Viñes in 1909 and famed for extreme difficulty, with Scarbo written to surpass Balakirev's Islamey.
Gate (ゲート 自衛隊 彼の地にて、斯く戦えり) (novel series)
Gate (ゲート 自衛隊 彼の地にて、斯く戦えり; Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There!) is Takumi Yanai's military isekai light novel series, first a 2006–2009 Arcadia web novel, published by AlphaPolis from 2010, with manga by Satoru Sao, a 2015–2016 A-1 Pictures anime, and over 7.7 million copies sold.
Gate of the Sun
Gate of the Sun (Bab al-Shams) is a 1998 novel by Elias Khoury about a doctor who keeps a comatose Palestinian fighter alive by telling his stories.
Gathasaptashati
Gathasaptashati (गाथासप्तशती), also called Gāhā Sattasaī or Saptaśataka, is an anthology of about 700 single-verse love poems in Maharashtri Prakrit, attributed to the Satavahana king Hala and mostly voiced by women.
Gathering Blue
Gathering Blue (2000) is Lois Lowry's dystopian YA novel, second in the Giver Quartet and a companion to The Giver, not a sequel. It follows Kira, a crippled weaver serving the Council of Guardians by repairing the Singer's robe in a post-Ruin village.
Gatilok
Gatilok (គតិលោក, also spelled Katilok) is a collection of 112 Khmer folktales compiled by the Cambodian scholar Achar Ind, serving as a Theravada Buddhist guide to moral conduct.
Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night (1935), Dorothy L. Sayers's tenth Lord Peter Wimsey novel and third Harriet Vane mystery, set at fictional Shrewsbury College, Oxford, solving poison pen letters and vandalism with no murder.
Gaunt's Ghosts
Gaunt's Ghosts is Dan Abnett's Black Library military science fiction series (1999-2019, 15 numbered novels) following Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only regiment in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, Warhammer 40,000's Sharpe-like soldier's-eye saga.
Gavroche
Gavroche, the abandoned Thénardier son in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (1862), a Parisian street urchin of the June 1832 Rebellion who dies collecting cartridges on the barricade; his name became the French common noun gavroche.
Gay literature
Gay literature: writing by, about, and for gay men and queer people, from ancient Greece to the modern gay literary explosion; includes queer literary criticism, Cart and Jenkins' YA categories, censorship history, and the Stonewall and Lambda awards.
Gazing at the Waterfall on Mount Lu
Gazing at the Waterfall on Mount Lu is the shared title of two poems by the Tang poet Li Bai describing a waterfall on Mount Lu.
Ge'ez Psalter
The Ge'ez Psalter (Ge'ez: መዝሙረ ዳዊት, Mäzmurä Dawit) is the Book of Psalms in classical Ethiopic, first translated by the sixth century and first printed in Rome in 1513.
Gedichte
Gedichte is the first collected edition of Joseph von Eichendorff's poetry, published in Berlin in 1837, opening with the Wanderlieder cycle and containing Mondnacht and Zwielicht.
Geisli
Geisli is a skaldic drápa of 71 stanzas by the Icelandic poet Einarr Skúlason, praising Saint Óláfr Haraldsson and his miracles, recited in Nidaros Cathedral in 1153.
Gendry
Gendry is a fictional blacksmith and unacknowledged bastard son of King Robert Baratheon in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, played by Joe Dempsie; the TV show merges him with Edric Storm and legitimizes him as Lord of Storm's End.
Generation P
Generation P, also published in English as Homo Zapiens and Babylon, is a 1999 satirical novel by Viktor Pelevin in which poet Vavilen Tatarsky helps manufacture post-Soviet Russia's media and political reality.
Generation X (comics)
Generation X is a Marvel Comics X-Men spin-off (1994–2001, 76 issues) about teen mutants trained by Banshee and Emma Frost at the Massachusetts Academy, created by Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo, relaunched 2017.
Generationenroman
The Generationenroman (generation novel) is a genre of prose fiction structured around several generations of one family, treating the transmission of memory, property, guilt, and identity.
Genre fiction
Genre fiction: commercial fiction written to a particular model or style, such as crime, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, or western, with a specific audience in mind. Categories were institutionalized in 1920s-1930s pulp magazines and moved to paperback books in the 1940s-1950s; literary fiction is its contrasting category.
Genre fiction in graphic novels
Genre fiction in graphic novels spans superhero, horror, crime, science fiction, and romance; genre titles consistently outsell literary ones, though prestige works like Maus and Watchmen built the form's reputation.
Gentle Ben
Gentle Ben is Walt Morey's 1965 children's novel, also known under the film title Gentle Giant, about Mark Andersen, an Alaskan boy who befriends a chained brown bear; it won the Dutton and Sequoyah awards and inspired a CBS series.
Geography III
Geography III is the final collection of poems by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, first published in 1976 and containing ten poems, including "One Art" and "In the Waiting Room".
George Miles Cycle
The George Miles Cycle is Dennis Cooper's five-novel sequence (Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, Period, 1989-2000), written as a tribute to his friend George Miles, who died by suicide in 1987.
George Smiley
George Smiley is a fictional British spymaster created by John le Carré, first appearing in the novel Call for the Dead in 1961 and featuring in nine of his books.
George's Marvellous Medicine
George's Marvellous Medicine is a 1981 children's novel by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake, in which George Kranky brews a potion that makes his grandmother grow enormous.