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Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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djinn

Literature; General literature

A being from Arabian folklore that is made of smokeless fire. In pre-Islamic religion, some Arab tribes worshiped them. In Islamic religion, djinn are one of three groups (the ...

parenthesis

Literature; General literature

1. either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material 2. a message that departs from the main subject.

psalm

Literature; General literature

1. one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament; said to have been written by David.

revenant

Literature; General literature

A creature in medieval European folklore that has risen from the dead, either in spirit form as a reanimated body. They are often hungry for flesh or otherwise extremely dangerous ...

Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman

Literature; General literature

Mob Rules is a book written by Louis Ferrante, an exmob who was convicted 8 years and then become a writer after leaving the mafia world. In this book he offers 88 lessons from ...

Stephen Dedalus

Literature; General literature

Stephen Dedalus, Fictional character, the protagonist of James Joyce's autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and a central character in his novel Ulysses. ...

Lady Honoria Dedlock

Literature; General literature

Fictional character in the novel Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens, a beautiful, self-controlled woman who harbors the secret that she bore an illegitimate daughter before her ...