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1 day ago · Statue of H. P. Lovecraft, the author who created the Necronomicon as a fictional grimoire and featured it in many of his stories The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned ...
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Necronomicon (also called H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon,...
- Anthropodermic Bibliopegy
A book bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke, on...
- The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American...
- De Vermis Mysteriis
De Vermis Mysteriis, or Mysteries of the Worm, is a...
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A fictional book is a text created specifically for a work...
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1 day ago · English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, are called Old English.
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6 days ago · short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. The short story is usually concerned with a single effect conveyed in only one or a few significant episodes or scenes. The form encourages economy of setting, concise narrative, and the omission of a complex plot ...
May 11, 2024 · The classics of English literature: whether you're reading for school or for pleasure, it can be hard to get a grip on the Western canon—and even harder to understand it. Thankfully, out of the 1500+ interviews on Five Books, scores of them cover every topic and most major authors you’re likely to encounter in a survey English literature ...
4 days ago · St. Loo is a resort town on the south English coast, commonly referred to as the English Riviera and is a setting for several Agatha Christie stories. St. Mary Mead, England Agatha Christie: Miss Marple series An earlier mention of St. Mary Mead exists in the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train.
I am aware of a number of fictional varieties of natural languages used in fiction or other media, most notably maybe Orwell's Newspeak and Burgess' Nadsat. I am trying to find more examples here, mostly, but not limited to varieties of English, French or German, that are used to an artistic purpose.
May 8, 2024 · The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a twelve-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction, written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on ...
