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Georgian court poetry of the Golden Age
Secular verse written at the royal court of the unified Kingdom of Georgia from the late 11th through the early 13th century, crowned by Rustaveli's epic.
Georgian folk poetry
Georgian folk poetry (ქართული ხალხური ლექსი) is the orally transmitted verse tradition of the Georgian people, closely bound to song and including historical poems, ballads, and satire.
Georgian novel
The Georgian novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in the Georgian language, emerging as a modern form in the nineteenth century under Russian rule.
Georgics
The Georgics is Virgil's didactic poem on the farmer's year, four books of Latin hexameter finished around 29 BC, covering crops, vines, cattle, and bees.
Gerald's Game
Gerald's Game is Stephen King's 1992 psychological horror novel (Viking) about Jessie Burlingame, handcuffed to a bed after her husband dies during a sex game; companion to Dolores Claiborne, adapted by Mike Flanagan for Netflix in 2017.
Geralt of Rivia
Geralt of Rivia, Andrzej Sapkowski's mutated monster-hunter from the Witcher saga (first story 1986), voiced by Doug Cockle in the games and played by Henry Cavill then Liam Hemsworth on Netflix; Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past returns him in 2027.
Gérard de Villefort
Gérard de Villefort, fictional magistrate in Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo); deputy crown prosecutor of Marseille who condemns Edmond Dantès to protect his Bonapartist father's secret, rises to king's prosecutor in Paris, and is driven mad by the Count's revenge.
German literature
German literature (deutsche Literatur) is the literature written in German across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, from the 8th-century Hildebrandslied to Nobel laureates like Thomas Mann and Günter Grass.
Germano
Germano is a masculine given name of Latin origin carried principally in Italian and Portuguese, also used as a surname, borne by the novelist Germano Almeida.
Germany Must Perish!
Germany Must Perish! is a 1941 self-published pamphlet by Theodore N. Kaufman (Argyle Press, Newark) arguing against compromise with Germanism; Nazi propaganda under Goebbels amplified it via Diewerge's September 1941 pamphlet as proof of a Jewish plot.
Germany. A Winter's Tale
Germany. A Winter's Tale (Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen) is an 1844 satirical verse epic by Heinrich Heine, in which an exile returning from Paris surveys the political Germany of the Vormärz period.
Geronimo Stilton
Geronimo Stilton is an Italian children's book series created by Elisabetta Dami in 2000 about a timid mouse journalist, editor of The Rodent's Gazette in New Mouse City. Over 187 million copies in 52 languages; US publisher Scholastic.
Gerontion
Gerontion is a 75-line poem by T. S. Eliot, written in 1919 and published in 1920, taking the voice of an old man meditating on history.
Geschichtklitterung
Geschichtklitterung is a German adaptation of Rabelais's Gargantua by the Strasbourg satirist Johann Fischart, first printed in 1575 and expanded to roughly three times the original's length, famed as a monument of experimental wordplay.
Gestaltes en Diere
Gestaltes en Diere ("Figures and animals") is a 1942 poetry collection by the Afrikaans poet N.P. van Wyk Louw, known for "Die swart luiperd" and "Die strandjutwolf".
Gevorg Marzpetuni
Gevorg Marzpetuni (Գևորգ Մարզպետունի) is a three-part historical novel by the Armenian writer Muratsan, serialized in 1896, set in 10th-century Bagratid Armenia under King Ashot II.
Ghassanid and Lakhmid court poetry
Ghassanid and Lakhmid court poetry is pre-Islamic Arabic praise verse composed for the Lakhmid court at al-Hira in Iraq and the Ghassanid court in Byzantine Syria.
Ghatotkacha (घटोत्कच)
Ghatotkacha (घटोत्कच, Gatotkaca in Javanese) is the rakshasa son of Bhima and Hidimba in the Mahabharata, a Pandava night-fighter killed by Karna's Indra-given Shakti, famed in wayang theater and modern retellings.
Ghazal
Ghazal (غزل): love-lyric form originating in 7th-century Arabic poetry as the nasib of the qasida, fixed as a 5–15 couplet monorhyme form in Persian (Rumi, Hafez), dominant in Urdu (Ghalib), and adapted into English by Agha Shahid Ali.
Ghosha
Ghosha, also spelled Ghosa, is the refrain of a Vaishnavite devotional song in Assam, and the name of two Assamese devotional texts, the Kirttana Ghosha and Naam Ghosha.
Ghost Love
Ghost Love is a 1937 novella by Chinese writer Xu Xu, in which a Shanghai writer falls in love with a woman who claims to be a ghost.
Ghost of Christmas Past
The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first of three spirits in Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol who shows Ebenezer Scrooge his past Christmases, embodying memory with a shifting, candle-like form.
Ghost of Christmas Present
The Ghost of Christmas Present is the second spirit in Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), a jolly giant in green with a holly crown and Plenty's-horn torch who shows Scrooge the Cratchits, Fred's party, and the children Ignorance and Want.
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (also Ghost of Christmas Future) is the third and final silent spirit in Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol, a hooded, Grim Reaper-like figure showing Scrooge Tiny Tim's death and his own unmourned grave.
Ghost story
Ghost story: prose tale of the supernatural, also called ghost fiction, in which the living encounter spirits of the dead; a literary genre spanning Victorian, American, and global traditions, defined by apparitions, haunted domestic spaces, and withheld explanation.
Ghumne Mechmathi Andho Manchhe
Ghumne Mechmathi Andho Manchhe is a 1969 Nepali-language poetry collection by Bhupi Sherchan, regarded as his magnum opus and the first work to receive the Sajha Puraskar.
Gideon the Ninth
Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb #1) is Tamsyn Muir's 2019 Tor.com debut science fantasy novel about indentured swordswoman Gideon Nav serving necromancer Harrowhark Nonagesimus in a Lyctor competition; Locus and Crawford Award winner, Hugo and Nebula finalist.
Gijsbrecht van Aemstel
Gijsbreght van Aemstel (also spelled Gysbreght van Aemstel) is a five-act tragedy by Joost van den Vondel, first performed in 1638 at the opening of the Amsterdam Schouwburg.
Gil-galad
Gil-galad (Ereinion) is Tolkien's last High King of the Noldor, ruler of Lindon in the Second Age, rejecter of Sauron's Annatar, co-leader of the Last Alliance, and co-slayer of Sauron who died at the Siege of Barad-dûr in S.A. 3441.
Gilbert Blythe
Gilbert Blythe, also called "Carrots" name-giver, is the fictional schoolboy rival, eventual husband of Anne Shirley in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908) and sequels, known for the slate scene, the Avonlea teaching sacrifice, and portrayals by Jonathan Crombie (1985) and Lucas Jade Zumann (2017).