Category:Literature
What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbours, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
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Many tropes originated in literary works. Literature being nearly as old as writing itself, most of The Oldest Ones in the Book date to the classics, most Public Domain Characters appeared in print well before the first TV broadcasts, and even today, with the supposedly dwindling popularity of books and magazines in favor of more modern media, there are books with enough cultural impact to spawn new Tropes.
Merriam-Webster defines "literature" thusly:
a (1) : writings in prose or verse; especially : writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest (2) : an example of such writings <what came out, though rarely literature, was always a roaring good story — People> |
We're using definitions "b", "c", and "d", not the second half of definition "a". For works where the author was intending to have the second half of definition "a" apply, see Category:Lit Fic.
Also see the Web Serial Novel page for periodicals that started online.
Contrast with Category:Bookish Tropes, which is about pages bound into covers.
Subcategories
This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.
A
- Adventure Modules (5 P)
- African Literature (10 P)
C
G
- Gay and Lesbian Fiction (41 P)
H
- Ho Yay/Literature (10 P)
L
- Latin American Literature (35 P)
- Lit Fic (250 P)
- Literature Recap (33 P)
- Literature/Funny (1 P)
M
S
Pages in category "Literature"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 3,142 total.
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B
- Babar
- Baby Princess
- The Baby Sitters Club
- Babyji
- Babylon Rising
- Bad Blood
- The Bad Girl
- Bad Monkeys
- The Bad Seed
- Badass Boast/Literature
- Badass Bookworm/Literature
- Badass Creed/Literature
- Badass/Literature
- Bag of Bones
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Ballet Shoes
- Balloon Belly/Literature
- Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Bambi, a Life in the Woods
- Baptism of Fire
- The Barber (novel)
- Barney's Version
- Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
- The Baroque Cycle
- Barriers of a Broken Soul
- Barry Trotter
- The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Bas-Lag Cycle
- The Basic Eight
- Basil of Baker Street
- Batman Gambit/Literature
- Batrachomyomachia
- The Battle of Maldon
- Battle Royale
- Battlefield Earth (novel)
- Baudolino
- Be My Enemy
- Beach Episode/Literature
- The Beach
- Beachwalker
- The Bean Trees
- The Bear and the Dragon
- Bears Discover Fire
- Beast Quest
- The Beat Generation
- Beau Geste
- Beautiful Creatures
- Beauty
- Beauty and The Beast
- Beauty Queens
- Because of Winn-Dixie
- Bedknob and Broomstick
- The Bedwyn Saga
- Beetle in the Anthill
- Before I Fall
- Beggars in Spain
- Belgariad
- The Bell Jar
- Belligerent Sexual Tension/Literature
- Beloved (novel)
- Ben-Hur
- Benjamin January
- Beowulf
- Bernie Rhodenbarr
- Berserk Button/Literature
- Berserker (Literature)
- Best Known for the Fanservice/Literature
- Best Served Cold (novel)
- Betsy-Tacy
- Better Than It Sounds/Literature
- Better Than It Sounds/Literature A-J
- Better Than It Sounds/Literature K-Z
- Between Planets
- Beware the Nice Ones/Literature
- Beyond the Black River
- Beyond the Impossible/Literature
- Beyond This Horizon
- The BFG
- Bhagavad Gita
- The Bible
- A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
- Big Damn Heroes/Literature
- Big Eater/Literature
- Big Fancy House/Literature
- The Big Fisherman
- The Big Sleep (novel)
- Big Trouble
- The Big U
- Bill the Galactic Hero
- Billy Budd (novel)
- Bio of a Space Tyrant
- BioShock: Rapture
- The Birth of Something New
- Bite Me (novel)
- Biting the Sun
- Bitter Seeds
- Bizarro Fiction
- Black Beauty
- Black Bride
- The Black Coats
- Black Colossus
- Black Dogs
- Black House
- The Black Saint
- The Black Stranger
- The Black Swan
- Black Trillium
- Blandings Castle
- Blankety Blank (novel)
- Blatant Lies/Literature
- Blaze
- Bleak House
- Bless the Beasts And Children
- Blood and Chocolate
- Blood Angels
- Blood Meridian
- Blood Music
- Blood of Elves
- Blood Samsara
- Bloodlines
- Bloodsucking Fiends
- The Bloody Chamber
- Bloody Jack
- Blossfechten
- Blubber
- The Blue Girl
- Bluebeard
- The Bluest Eye
- Body Horror/Literature
- Boiling a Frog
- Bone
- The bone people
- Bones of Faerie
- Boogiepop (series)
- Book Ends/Literature
- The Book of All Hours
- The Book of Bunny Suicides
- Book of Exodus
- Book of Genesis
- The Book of Joe
- Book of Judges
- The Book of Lord Shang
- The Book of Lost Things
- The Book of Mormon (literature)
- The Book of Negroes
- The Book of Night with Moon
- Book of Revelation
- Book of Ruth
- Book of Swords
- Book of the Dead
- The Book of the Dun Cow
- Book of the New Sun
- Book of the Short Sun
- The Book Thief
- The Books of Elsewhere
- Books of History Chronicles
- Books of Kings
- Books of Samuel
- The Books of the Order
- Books of the Raksura
- Books on Trope
- Bored of the Rings
- Boring but Practical/Literature
- The Borribles
- The Borrowers
- Boundary
- The Bourne Series (novel)
- Bowdlerise/Literature
- The Boxcar Children
- The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
- Boy's Life
- Brain Bleach/Literature
- Bras and Broomsticks
- The Brave Little Tailor
- Brave New World (novel)
- Brave Story
- Break of Dark
- Break the Cutie/Literature
- Break the Cutie/Literature/Warrior Cats
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Breakfast of Champions
- Breaking the Fourth Wall/Literature
Media in category "Literature"
The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.
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Opus on books.png 400 × 268; 190 KB
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Thehoneymanandthehunter.jpeg 1,280 × 1,978; 460 KB