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Kvachi Kvachantiradze
Kvachi Kvachantiradze (კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე) is a 1925 picaresque novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili, following a con man through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and Georgia's Soviet incorporation.
Kwakwaka'wakw oral literature
Kwakwaka'wakw oral literature is the spoken and sung verbal art of the Kwakwaka'wakw, Kwak'wala-speaking First Nations of northern Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland.
Kwiaty polskie
Kwiaty polskie (Polish Flowers) is a long digressive poem by Julian Tuwim, written in exile during and after World War II and devoted to Poland and Polishness.
Kyaap
Kyaap (क्याप, also transliterated Kyap) is a Hindi novel by Manohar Shyam Joshi that won the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award, telling of a doomed love in the Himalayan hills.
Kyo Kara Maoh! (今日からマ王!)
Kyo Kara Maoh! (今日からマ王!), also known as Maruma, is a Japanese light novel series by Tomo Takabayashi and Temari Matsumoto about Yuri Shibuya, a high schooler flushed into another world and made the 27th demon king of Shin Makoku; adapted into a Studio Deen/NHK anime (2004–2009), manga, games, and a stage musical.
Kytice
Kytice, full title A Bouquet of National Legends, is a collection of ballads by Czech writer and folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben, first published in Prague in 1853.
Kyukhlya
Kyukhlya, subtitled A Tale of a Decembrist, is a 1925 biographical novel by Yuri Tynianov recounting the life of the poet Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Pushkin's Lyceum friend.
Kyz Zhibek
Kyz Zhibek (Қыз Жібек, "The Silk Maiden") is a classic Kazakh lyrical-epic love poem of the 15th to 17th centuries, which inspired Kazakhstan's first opera and a 1970 film.
L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential: James Ellroy's 1990 crime novel, third of the L.A. Quartet, about three corrupt LAPD detectives and the Nite Owl Massacre, and Curtis Hanson's 1997 Oscar-nominated film adaptation with Spacey, Crowe, and Pearce.
L'Adone
L'Adone is a mythological epic poem in twenty cantos by the Neapolitan poet Giovan Battista Marino, published in Paris in 1623 and recognized as the longest poem written in the Italian language.
L'albatros (poem)
L'Albatros is Charles Baudelaire's 1861 Les Fleurs du mal poem (first published 1859) in which captured albatrosses become an allegory of the poet, four ABAB alexandrine quatrains ending "Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées".
L'Allegria
Allegria di naufragi is a 1919 poetry collection by the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, written during World War I service on the Italian and western fronts.
L'Amour la poésie
L'Amour la poésie is a 1929 collection of poems by the French surrealist poet Paul Éluard, dedicated to his wife Gala and containing the famous line "The earth is blue like an orange."
L'Année terrible
L'Année terrible, "the terrible year," is Victor Hugo's phrase for France's 1870–1871 catastrophe of war, siege of Paris, and the Commune, also the title of his 1872 poetry collection.
L'Après-midi d'un faune
L'Après-midi d'un faune is an 1876 eclogue in 110 alexandrines by Stéphane Mallarmé, in which a faun cannot tell whether an encounter with two nymphs was real.
L'Art d'être grand-père
L'Art d'être grand-père is a collection of poetry by Victor Hugo, published in Paris in 1877 and dedicated entirely to his grandchildren Georges and Jeanne Hugo.
L'Art poétique
L'Art poétique is a didactic poem in four chants by Nicolas Boileau, published in 1674 and imitated from Horace, setting out the precepts of French classical doctrine and its poetic genres.
L'Assommoir
L'Assommoir is an 1877 novel by Émile Zola, seventh volume of his Rougon-Macquart cycle, tracing laundress Gervaise Macquart's decline in working-class Paris; a founding work of the proletarian novel.
L'Epistre Othea
L'Epistre Othea (Épître d'Othéa) is a work of moral instruction by Christine de Pizan, framed as a letter from the goddess Othéa to Hector of Troy, written around 1400 and surviving in 47 manuscripts.
L'Espace du dedans
L'Espace du dedans ("The Space Within") is a 1944 poetry anthology by the Belgian-born French poet and painter Henri Michaux, who selected the poems himself for Gallimard.
L'infinito
L'infinito ("The Infinite") is a poem by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, composed at Recanati in 1819 and among the most famous lyrics in Italian literature.
La amada inmóvil
La amada inmóvil (Versos a una muerta) is a posthumous 1920 book of elegiac poetry by Mexican poet Amado Nervo, written for his companion Ana Cecilia Luisa Dailliez.
La amortajada
La amortajada is a 1938 novel by Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal in which a dead woman, Ana María, narrates her own funeral from inside her coffin.
La Araucana
La Araucana is a 16th-century Spanish epic poem by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga about the Spanish conquest of Chile and the war with the Mapuche, published in Madrid in three parts between 1569 and 1589.
La Argentina manuscrita
La Argentina manuscrita is a 1612 chronicle of the Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán, the region's first mestizo historian.
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata is a 1602 epic poem by Martín del Barco Centenera about the conquest of the Río de la Plata.
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Keats's 1819 ballad "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy"), in twelve ABCB quatrains, tells of a knight enthralled by a fairy woman; title echoes Alain Chartier's medieval French poem; two versions exist.
La Belle Sauvage
La Belle Sauvage (2017) is Philip Pullman's first Book of Dust novel, set a decade before His Dark Materials, in which Malcolm Polstead and Alice rescue baby Lyra by canoe through a flooded Thames.
La beltà
La beltà is a 1968 poetry collection by the Italian poet Andrea Zanzotto, gathering his poems from 1961 to 1967 and considered his most complex, mature work.
La Bonne Chanson
La Bonne Chanson is an 1870 collection of 21 poems by Paul Verlaine, written for Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville and published in Paris by Alphonse Lemerre.