Novels & Short Stories, MAN-NEW
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
Man and Superman, play in four acts by George Bernard Shaw, published in 1903 and performed (without scene 2 of......
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , short story by Mark Twain satirizing the vanity of the virtuous. It was first......
The Man Who Loved Children, novel by Australian writer Christina Stead, published in 1940 and revised in 1965.......
The Man Who Was Thursday, allegorical novel by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1908. It relates the experiences of......
The Man Who Would Be King, short story by Rudyard Kipling, first published in The Phantom Rickshaw, and Other Tales......
The Man with the Golden Arm, novel by Nelson Algren, published in 1949. It won a National Book Award in 1950. Set......
The Man Without Qualities, unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published as Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften......
Manchild in the Promised Land, autobiographical novel by Claude Brown, published in 1965. The work was noted for......
The Mandarins, novel by Simone de Beauvoir, published in French as Les Mandarins in 1954; it won the Prix Goncourt......
Manon Lescaut, sentimental novel by Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles, published in 1731 as the last installment......
Mansfield Park, novel by English writer Jane Austen, published in three volumes in 1814. It is believed to be set......
The Mansion, novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1959 as the third volume of his Snopes trilogy. The......
Man’yō-shū, (Japanese: “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves”), oldest (c. 759) and greatest of the imperial anthologies......
The Marble Faun, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1860. It is one of the works Hawthorne called romances—“unrealistic”......
Mardi, third novel by Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes as Mardi: And a Voyage Thither in 1849.......
Marjorie Morningstar, novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1955, about a woman who rebels against the confining middle-class......
Philip Marlowe, fictional character, the protagonist of seven novels by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe is a hard-boiled......
The Marquise of O, novella by German writer Heinrich von Kleist, published in 1808 in the literary journal Phöbus......
The Martian Chronicles, collection of interconnected short stories by Ray Bradbury that relate the history of the......
Martin Chuzzlewit, novel by Charles Dickens, published serially under the pseudonym “Boz” from 1843 to 1844 and......
Martin Eden, semiautobiographical novel by Jack London, published in 1909. The title character becomes a writer,......
Mary Barton, first novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, published in 1848. It is the story of a working-class family......
Mary Poppins, the first novel in a series of children’s books written by P.L. Travers, published in 1934. The titular......
Perry Mason, fictional American trial lawyer and detective, the protagonist of more than 80 mystery novels (beginning......
The Masque of the Red Death, allegorical short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham’s Magazine in......
If you’re a book lover, you’ve probably been asked the eternal bookworm’s question: If you were stranded on a desert......
The Master and Margarita, novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1928–40 and published in a censored......
The Master of Ballantrae, novel by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, first serialized in Scribner’s Magazine......
Mastro-don Gesualdo, realistic novel of Sicilian life by Giovanni Verga, published in Italian in 1889. Mastro-don......
Maurice, novel by E.M. Forster, published posthumously in 1971. Because of the work’s homosexual theme, the novel......
The Mayor of Casterbridge, novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1886, first serially (in the periodical The Graphic)......
Travis McGee, fictional character, private investigator in a series of 24 crime novels by John D. MacDonald. McGee,......
McTeague, novel by Frank Norris, published in 1899. The work was considered to be the first great portrait in American......
Melmoth the Wanderer, novel by Charles Robert Maturin, published in 1820 and considered the last of the classic......
The Member of the Wedding, novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1946. It depicts the inner life of a lonely......
Memento Mori, comic and macabre novel by Muriel Spark, published in 1959. This psychological fantasy was Spark’s......
Memoirs of Hadrian, historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published in 1951 as Mémoires d’Hadrien. In the book,......
Memoirs of Hecate County, collection of six loosely connected short stories by Edmund Wilson, first published in......
Men of Good Will, epic novel cycle by Jules Romains, published in French in 27 volumes as Les Hommes de bonne volonté......
Menippean satire, seriocomic genre, chiefly in ancient Greek literature and Latin literature, in which contemporary......
As Franz Kafka lay troubled and restless one night, he found himself in his bed struck by an idea for a disturbing......
Metaphysical poet, any of the poets in 17th-century England who inclined to the personal and intellectual complexity......
Middlemarch, novel by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans), published in eight parts in 1871–72 and also......
Midnight’s Children, allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern......
Midwestern Regionalism, American literary movement of the late 19th century that centred on the realistic depiction......
The Mill on the Floss, novel by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1860. It sympathetically portrays the......
The Mill on the Po, trilogy of novels by Riccardo Bacchelli, first published in Italian as Il mulino del Po in......
Le Misanthrope, satiric comedy in five acts by Molière, performed in 1666 and published the following year. The......
Miss Lonelyhearts, novel by Nathanael West, published in 1933. It concerns a male newspaper columnist whose attempts......
Les Misérables, novel by French author Victor Hugo, published in French in 1862. It was an instant popular success......
A Mixture of Frailties, novel by Robertson Davies, the third in a series known collectively as the Salterton...
Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New......
mock-epic, form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject.......
Modernismo, in Brazil, a post-World War I aesthetic movement that attempted to bring national life and thought......
A Modest Proposal, satiric essay by Jonathan Swift, published in pamphlet form in 1729. Presented in the guise......
Moll Flanders, picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1722. The novel recounts the adventures of a lusty......
Molloy, French prose work by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1951. It was the first book in a trilogy......
The Monk, Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. The story’s violence and sexual content made......
The Monkey’s Paw, classic tale of horror and superstition, a much-anthologized short story by W.W. Jacobs, published......
Montreal group, coterie of poets who precipitated a renaissance of Canadian poetry during the 1920s and ’30s by......
Moomintroll, 20th-century Finnish literary and comic-strip character, a white, furry creature somewhat resembling......
The Moon and Sixpence, novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1919. It was loosely based on the life of French......
The Moonstone, one of the first English detective novels, written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1868. A debased......
Professor Moriarty, nemesis of Sherlock Holmes in the detective stories and novels by Scottish writer Arthur Conan......
Le Morte Darthur, the first English-language prose version of the Arthurian legend, completed by Sir Thomas Malory......
Mosses from an Old Manse, collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in two volumes in 1846.......
Mr. Moto, fictional Japanese detective and secret agent created by American novelist J.P. Marquand in No Hero (1935).......
The Moviegoer, novel by Walker Percy, published in 1961. It won a National Book Award. The story is a philosophical......
Mr. Sammler’s Planet, novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1970. It won the National Book Award for fiction in 1971.......
Mrs. Dalloway, novel by Virginia Woolf published in 1925. It examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway,......
MS. Found in a Bottle, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in the Baltimore weekly Saturday Visiter (October......
Al-Mufaḍḍaliyyāt, anthology of ancient Arabic poems, compiled by al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿlah al-Ḍabbī between......
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, novel by British author of detective stories Agatha Christie. Published in 1926, it......
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham’s magazine in 1841. It......
Murphy, novel by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1938. The story concerns an Irishman in London who yearns......
Mutiny on the Bounty, romantic novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, published in 1932. The vivid narrative......
My Kinsman, Major Molineux, short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1832 in The Token, an annual......
My Name Is Aram, Book of 14 interconnected short stories by William Saroyan, published in 1940. The book consists......
My Ántonia, novel by Willa Cather, her best-known work, published in 1918. It honours the immigrant settlers of......
The Mysteries of Udolpho, novel by Ann Radcliffe, published in 1794. It is one of the most famous English Gothic......
The Mysterious Island, adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in French in three volumes as L’Île mystérieuse......
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished novel by English author Charles Dickens, published posthumously in 1870.......
mystery story, ages-old popular genre of tales dealing with the unknown as revealed through human or worldly dilemmas;......
Máj circle, group of young Czech writers of the mid-19th century whose aim was to create a new Czech literature......
The Naked and the Dead, novel by Norman Mailer, published in 1948 and hailed as one of the finest American novels......
Naked Lunch, seminal novel by American experimental writer William S. Burroughs. Excerpts from Naked Lunch first......
The Name of the Rose, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in Italian in 1980. Although the work stands......
The Namesake, first novel by English-born American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, published in 2003. It explored similar......
Nana, novel by Émile Zola, published in French in 1880. Nana is one of a sequence of 20 novels that constitute......
Native Son, novel by Richard Wright, published in 1940. The novel addresses the issue of white American society’s......
The Natural, first novel by Bernard Malamud, published in 1952. The story of gifted athlete Roy Hobbs and his talismanic......
naturalism, in literature and the visual arts, late 19th- and early 20th-century movement that was inspired by......
Nausea, first novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in French in 1938 as La Nausée. It is considered Sartre’s fiction......
Nebula Award, any of various annual awards presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).......
Neuromancer, novel (1984) by William Gibson that launched the cyberpunk movement within the science fiction literary......
New Grub Street, realistic novel by George Gissing, published in three volumes in 1891. It portrays the intrigues......
New Novel, avant-garde novel of the mid-20th century that marked a radical departure from the conventions of the......
Newbery Medal, annual award given to the author of the most distinguished American children’s book of the previous......
The Newcomes, novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 24 installments from 1853 to 1855 under......
News from Nowhere, prose work by William Morris, published serially in The Commonweal in 1890 and as a book later......