Novels & Short Stories, JOS-MAL
novels and short stories have been enchanting and transporting readers for a great many years. There's a little something for everyone: within these two genres of literature, a wealth of types and styles can be found, including historical, epistolary, romantic, Gothic, and realist works, along with many more.
Novels & Short Stories Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Joseph Andrews, novel by Henry Fielding, published in 1742. It was written as a reaction against Samuel Richardson’s......
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, novel by prolific French author Jules Verne, published in 1864. It is the......
Journey to the West, foremost Chinese comic novel, written by Wu Cheng’en, a novelist and poet of the Ming dynasty......
Jude the Obscure, novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1894–95 in an abridged form in Harper’s New Monthly as Hearts......
July’s People, alternate history novel written by South African author Nadine Gordimer and published in 1981. Set......
The Jungle Book, collection of stories by English writer Rudyard Kipling, published in 1894. A sequel, The Second......
The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. The most famous,......
Jurgen, novel by James Branch Cabell, published in 1919. The New York Society for the Prevention of Vice declared......
Just So Stories, collection of children’s animal fables linked by poems by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1902.......
Justine, erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade, originally published in French as Justine, ou les malheurs de la......
Juvenalian satire, in literature, any bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions that......
Kenilworth, novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1821 and considered one of his finest historical novels. Set......
Kidnapped, novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in serial form in the magazine Young Folks in 1886.......
Kim, novel by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1901. Kim, Kipling’s final and most famous novel, chronicles the adventures......
King Solomon’s Mines, novel by H. Rider Haggard, published in 1885. One of the first African adventure stories,......
King, Queen, Knave, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in Russian in 1928 as Korol, dama, valet. With this......
Kiss of the Spider Woman, novel by Manuel Puig, published in 1976 as El beso de la mujer araña. Mostly consisting......
The Kite Runner, novel by Khaled Hosseini, published in 2003. It follows the journey of Amir, a young boy from......
Des Knaben Wunderhorn, (1805–08; German: “The Boy’s Magic Horn”), anthology of German folk songs, subtitled Alte......
Knickerbocker school, group of writers active in and around New York City during the first half of the 19th century.......
Kokinshū, the first anthology of Japanese poetry compiled upon Imperial order, by poet Ki Tsurayuki and others......
Kristin Lavransdatter, historical novel in three volumes by Sigrid Undset, published from 1920 to 1922. For this......
Krokodil, (Russian: “Crocodile”), humour magazine published in Moscow, noted for its satire and cartoons. From......
König Rother, medieval German romance (c. 1160) that is the earliest record of the type of popular entertainment......
Künstlerroman, (German: “artist’s novel”), class of Bildungsroman, or apprenticeship novel, that deals with the......
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in a limited English-language edition in Florence (1928)......
Lake poet, any of the English poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived......
lampoon, virulent satire in prose or verse that is a gratuitous and sometimes unjust and malicious attack on an......
The Last Chronicle of Barset, the final Barsetshire novel by Anthony Trollope, published serially in 1866–67 and......
The Last Leaf, short story by O. Henry, published in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories.......
The Last of the Mohicans, the second and most popular novel of the five-volume Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore......
The Last Tycoon, unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published posthumously in 1941. As edited by the literary......
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, novel by Milan Kundera, written in Czech as Kniha smíchu a zapomnění but originally......
A Lear of the Steppes, short story by Ivan Turgenev, published in 1870 as “Stepnoy Korol Lir”; it has also been......
The Leatherstocking Tales, series of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper, published between 1823 and 1841. The......
Leaven of Malice, novel by Robertson Davies, the second in a series known collectively as the Salterton...
Left Behind series, series of 16 thriller novels written by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye about Evangelical Christians......
The Left Hand of Darkness, science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 1969. The book, set on a frigid......
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, short story by Washington Irving, first published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20. “The......
The Book of Leinster, compilation of Irish verse and prose from older manuscripts and oral tradition and from 12th-......
The Leopard, novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published in 1958 as Il gattopardo. The novel is a psychological......
Inspector Lestrade, fictional character, the perennially confounded Scotland Yard inspector who must request the......
Letters from the Earth, miscellany of fiction, essays, and notes by Mark Twain, published posthumously in 1962.......
Life & Times of Michael K, novel by South African author J.M. Coetzee, who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for......
Life of Pi, novel written by Yann Martel, published in 2001. A fantasy which won the Booker Prize in 2002, Life......
Light in August, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1932, the seventh in the series set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha......
The Light That Failed, novel by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1890. The book, which includes autobiographical elements,......
Like Water for Chocolate, magical realist debut novel by by Mexican author and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. First......
Lilli burlero, 17th-century English political song that played a part in driving James II from the throne in 1688.......
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, fantasy novel for children by C.S. Lewis, published in 1950. Peter, Susan,......
This is an alphabetically ordered list of fictional characters, including the titles of works in which they appear.......
James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming. Fleming introduced Bond, a secret......
This is a list of novels ordered chronologically by century and alphabetically by book title. See also novel and...
This is a list of science-fiction writers, ordered alphabetically by...
On an autumn day in 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge began writing the poem “Kubla Khan,” which he claimed to have......
literary criticism, the reasoned consideration of literary works and issues. It applies, as a term, to any argumentation......
literary sketch, short prose narrative, often an entertaining account of some aspect of a culture written by someone......
Little Dorrit, novel by Charles Dickens, published serially from 1855 to 1857 and in book form in 1857. The novel......
Little Lord Fauntleroy, sentimental novel for children written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published serially in......
The Little Minister, popular sentimental novel by J.M. Barrie, published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897. The Little......
The Little Prince, fable and modern classic by French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that was published......
Little Women, novel for children by Louisa May Alcott, published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. Her sister May......
La Llorona, a mythological woman in Mexican and Latin American oral tradition whose siren-like wails are said to......
Lolita, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1955 in France. Upon its American publication in 1958, Lolita created......
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, novel by Brian Moore, published in 1955 as Judith Hearne, about an aging Irish......
Look Homeward, Angel, novel by Thomas Wolfe, published in 1929. It is a thinly veiled autobiography. The novel......
Lord Jim, novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1900. The work, originally intended as a short story, grew to a......
Lord of the Flies, debut novel by English writer William Golding, first published in 1954. The book explores the......
The Lord of the Rings, fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien initially published in three parts as The Fellowship of......
Lorna Doone, historical romance by R.D. Blackmore, published in 1869. Set in the wilds of Exmoor (northern Devonshire,......
Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary......
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, novel by Heinrich Böll, published in 1974 in the German weekly newsmagazine Der......
Lost Horizon, novel by James Hilton, published in 1933. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic......
A Lost Lady, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1923, depicting the decline of the American pioneer spirit and......
The Lottery, short story by Shirley Jackson, published in The New Yorker in June 1948 and included the following......
Love in a Cold Climate, novel written by English author Nancy Mitford and published in 1949. Love in a Cold Climate,......
Love in the Time of Cholera, novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del cólera.......
The Loved One, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman......
Lucien Leuwen, unfinished novel by Stendhal, published posthumously in 1894. It is perhaps Stendhal’s most autobiographical......
The Luck of Ginger Coffey, novel by Brian Moore, published in 1960. The story concerns an Irish-born Canadian immigrant......
The Luck of Roaring Camp, short story by Bret Harte, published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly, which Harte edited.......
Lucky Jim, best-selling novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954. The novel features the antihero Jim Dixon, a......
Arsène Lupin, fictional character in stories and novels by Maurice Leblanc. The debonair Lupin is a reformed thief,......
The Lyre of Orpheus, novel by Robertson Davies, published in 1988. The book is the third in the so-called Cornish......
Lélia, novel by George Sand, published in 1833. It shocked contemporary readers with a heroine who, like Sand herself,......
Mac Flecknoe, an extended verse satire by John Dryden, written in the mid-1670s and published anonymously and apparently......
Mad, American satirical magazine that started as a four-colour comic book in 1952 and transitioned into a black-and-white......
Madame Bovary, novel by Gustave Flaubert, serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 and then published in two volumes......
The Magic Barrel, collection of 13 short stories by Bernard Malamud, published in 1958. Malamud’s first published......
The Magic Mountain, novel of ideas by Thomas Mann, originally published in German as Der Zauberberg in 1924. It......
magic realism, chiefly Latin-American narrative strategy that is characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusion......
The Magician of Lublin, novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published serially as Der Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin in the......
The Magnificent Ambersons, novel by Booth Tarkington, published in 1918. The book, about life in a Midwestern American......
Jules Maigret, fictional character, an unassuming, compassionate, and streetwise Parisian police commissioner who......
Main Street, novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1920. The story of Main Street is filtered through the eyes......
Major Barbara, social satire in three acts by George Bernard Shaw, performed in 1905 and published in 1907, in......
The Making of Americans, novel by Gertrude Stein, completed in 1911 and considered to be one of Stein’s major works.......
The Makioka Sisters, novel by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, originally published as Sasameyuki (“A Light Snowfall”). The......
Malone Dies, novel by the Irish author Samuel Beckett, originally written in French as Malone meurt (1951) and......
The Maltese Falcon, mystery novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, generally considered his finest work. It......