Literary Series
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A literary series is a group of novels or short stories that, combined, form a larger narrative or which share a setting.
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| The Book of the New Sun |
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Book | The Solar Cycle |
The Book of the New Sun is a novel in four parts written (1980–83) by science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a disgraced journeyman torturer who rises to the position of Autarch, the...
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| The Book of the Long Sun |
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The Book of the Long Sun is a tetralogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun. The first two volumes are published together as Litany of the Long Sun and the last...
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| The Book of the Short Sun | The Solar Cycle |
The Book of the Short Sun is a trilogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, and Return to the Whorl. It is the sequel to Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun, and has connections to The Book of the New Sun....
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| The Wizard Knight |
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The Wizard Knight is a series of epistolary novel written by fantasy and science fiction author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey of Able of the High Heart, an American boy transported to a magical world and supernaturally aged to adulthood....
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| His Dark Materials |
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His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novel (some of which have won awards)by Philip Pullman, comprises Northern Lights (1995 — released as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000).(The books...
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| Recent Researches in American music | Company | Music of the United States of America |
Critical editions of musical scores by composers active in the United States.
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| Bible | Religious Text |
Bible refers to respective collections of religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity. The exact composition of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denomination. Modern Rabbinic Judaism generally recognizes a single...
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| Torah |
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term "Torah" (Hebrew: תורה, "teaching" or "instruction," sometimes translated as "Law,") most commonly refers to the text of the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch. It may also refer to the entirety of Judaism's founding legal and ethical religious...
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| Nevi'im | Religious Text |
Nevi'im [נביאים] (Heb: Prophets) is the second of the three major sections in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, between the Torah and Ketuvim (writings).
Nevi'im is traditionally divided into two parts:
In the Jewish tradition, Samuel and Kings are...
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| Tanakh |
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The Tanakh ( or ; also Tenakh or Tenak) is the Bible used in Judaism. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew notariqon or acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah ("Teaching," also known as the...
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| Ketuvim | Book |
Ketuvim is the third and final section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), after Torah and Nevi'im.
The Hebrew word כתובים (ketuvim) means "writings." In English translations of the Hebrew Bible, this section is usually entitled "Writings" or ...
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| James Bond |
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James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novel and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the second longest running and second most successful film franchise to...
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| The Hand of Thrawn duology |
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The Hand of Thrawn duology is a duology of novel set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe galaxy, which were written by famed Star Wars author Timothy Zahn. The duology continues Zahn's eight-book series which chronologically began with the Outbound...
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| The Sprawl trilogy |
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The Sprawl trilogy (also Neuromancer trilogy, Cyberspace trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novel, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).
The novels are all set in the same fictional future, and...
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| Jason Bourne Series |
The Jason Bourne Series is a series of spy fiction thriller novels about Jason Bourne, created by Robert Ludlum in 1980 and continued by Eric Van Lustbader.
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| Nancy Drew |
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Nancy Drew is an amateur sleuth, the fictional heroine of a popular mystery series, primarily aimed at the children-young adult audience, and written under the collective pseudonym "Carolyn Keene". The series was created and outlined in detail in...
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| Chalet School |
The Chalet School is a fictional girls' boarding school, the setting of around sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The school was initially located in Austria, moved to Guernsey in 1939,...
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| Spy Gear Adventures |
Spy Gear Adventures is a series of children's book by Rick Barba. The series was published by Aladdin Paperbacks, and was based on the line of Spy Gear toys manufactured by Wild Planet Entertainment. There are six titles in the series about a group...
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| The Animals of Farthing Wood |
The Animals of Farthing Wood is a series of eight books written by British author Colin Dann. The books tell the story of a group of woodland animals whose home has been paved over by developers. They learn of a nature reserve, White Deer Park,...
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| Lord Darcy | Book |
Lord Darcy is a detective in an alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. The first stories were asserted to take place in the same year as they were published, but in a world very different from our own.
Magic is a codified scientific...
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| Penny Parker |
Penny Parker was a series of 17 books written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny was a high school sleuth who also occasionally moonlighted as a reporter for her father's newspaper.
Benson favored Penny Parker...
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| Tomorrow series |
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The Tomorrow series is a series of invasion novels written by Australian author John Marsden, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. The novels are told in first person perspective by the main character,...
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| Walt Disney's Fun-to-Read Library | Book |
Walt Disney's Fun-to-Read Library is a 19-volume children's book series, published by Bantam Books and Walt Disney Productions, and released in 1986.
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| The Five Find-Outers |
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The Five Find-Outers and Dog (not to be confused with The Famous Five), also known as the Enid Blyton Mystery Series, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton and first published between 1943 and 1961. Set in the fictitious...
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| Obernewtyn Chronicles | Book |
The Obernewtyn Chronicles are a series of science fiction/fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. They have a post apocalyptic setting, and depict a world struggling to come to terms with the environmental, bodily and mental damage...
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| Gor |
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Gor, the Counter-Earth, is the alternate-world setting for John Norman's Chronicles of Gor, a series of twenty six novels that combine philosophy, erotica and science fiction.
The customs, terminology and imagery depicted in these books has...
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| Patternist series |
The Patternist series (also known as the ''Patternmaster series) is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing into the future from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future, involving...
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