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Open Library. Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [ 3][ 4] Brewster Kahle, [ 5] Alexis Rossi, [ 6] Anand Chitipothu, [ 6] and Rebecca Malamud, [ 6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
The Dictionary of Lost Words. The Dictionary of Lost Words is the debut novel by Australian writer Pip Williams, published in March 2020. It became a bestseller in Australia and was also a New York Times bestseller. It won several literary prizes in 2021, and has been published in several languages in other countries.
פֿייגעלע): (pejorative) homosexual (literally 'little bird', from Old High German fogal; cf. modern German Vögele, also possible cf. German word Feigling, meaning 'coward'), could be used for anyone slightly effeminate, "Ugh, that, Moishele washes his hands, what a faygel." Often used as a disparaging term for a homosexual male.
Twitterature (a portmanteau of Twitter and literature) is a literary use of the microblogging service of X (formerly known as Twitter). It includes various genres, including aphorisms, poetry, and fiction (or some combination thereof) written by individuals or collaboratively. The 280-character maximum imposed by the medium, upgraded from 140 ...
Web fiction. Web fiction is written works of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet. A common type of web fiction is the web serial. The term comes from old serial stories that were once published regularly in newspapers and magazines. Unlike most modern books, a work of web fiction is often not published as a whole.
Literature. This glossary of literary terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the discussion, classification, analysis, and criticism of all types of literature, such as poetry, novels, and picture books, as well as of grammar, syntax, and language techniques. For a more complete glossary of terms relating to poetry in ...
The word is used by Charles M. Schulz in a 1982 installment of his Peanuts comic strip, [49] and by Peter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle. Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014 ...
Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling devices; common settings ...