Literature

Articles about books, writers, literary movements and criticism.

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A Clergyman's Daughter

A Little Princess

A Tale of Two Cities

A Wrinkle in Time

Agnes Grey

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse: American novelist, short‑story writer and longtime book critic

Allegory

Alliteration

Alliteration: definition, features, history, and common examples

Allusion

Allusion (literary device)

Almayer's Folly

Alyosha Karamazov

Alyosha Karamazov (Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov)

American literature

Anna Karenina

Antihero

Anton Chigurh

Antonio Candido

Antonio Candido: Brazilian Literary Critic, Sociologist, and Scholar

Aphorism

Apologetic proverb

Apologetic proverb (wellerism): a humorous reversal of sayings

Arovell Verlag

Arovell Verlag — Austrian independent publisher of contemporary German-language literature

Arsène Lupin

Atticus Finch

Atticus Finch: Character, Role, and Cultural Legacy

Australian literature

Ballad

Ballad: form, history, and modern meanings

Ballade

Ballade (medieval French poetic and song form)

Bard

Bartje

Bartje: a Dutch literary figure from Drenthe

Beat Generation

Beat Generation: origins, style, key figures, and cultural legacy

Belinda (book)

Bellatrix Lestrange

Bibliography

Bibliography: meaning, types, history and uses

Big Mama's Funeral

Black comedy

Black comedy (dark humor): definition, history, examples, and significance

Blank verse

Blank verse: unrhymed metrical poetry

Book of Optics

Bridge to Terabithia (novel)

Bridge to Terabithia: Katherine Paterson's novel about childhood, imagination, and grief

Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy — children's novel by Christopher Paul Curtis

Burmese Days

Burmese Days (novel)

Burton's Gentleman's Magazine

Bush ballad

Campus novel

Campus novel (academic novel): fiction about university life

Canadian literature

Canadian literature: an overview

Captain Hook

Captain Hook (fictional pirate)

Catherine Morland

Chapter

Chapter: divisions in books, organizations, religion, and law

Chapter (books)

Chapter (books): definition, structure, history, and uses

Characterization

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Children's literature

Children's literature: history, forms, and cultural importance