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Lament for Adonis
The Lament for Adonis is an ancient Greek poem by Bion of Smyrna mourning Aphrodite's grief for Adonis, killed by a boar during a hunt.
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
"Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" (Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías) is a 1934 elegy by Federico García Lorca mourning the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, gored to death in Manzanares.
Lament for Qu Yuan
Lament for Qu Yuan (Diao Qu Yuan fu) is a fu rhapsody by Han writer Jia Yi, mourning the drowned poet Qu Yuan and the earliest such surviving work.
Lament of the Lady of Qin
The Lament of the Lady of Qin (秦婦吟) is a long 883 narrative poem by Tang poet Wei Zhuang recounting the Huang Chao rebellion's destruction of Chang'an.
Lament of the Soldier's Wife
Lament of the Soldier's Wife (Chinh phụ ngâm, also called Chinh phụ ngâm khúc) is a classical Chinese poem by Đặng Trần Côn, composed around 1741, famed through Vietnamese Nôm translations.
Lament on the Fall of Edessa
Lament on the Fall of Edessa (Armenian: Voghb Yedesioy) is a medieval Armenian lament poem by Nerses Shnorhali, written after Muslim troops seized Edessa in 1144.
Lament świętokrzyski
Lament świętokrzyski, also known as Żale Matki Boskiej pod krzyżem, is an anonymous Polish medieval poem of the late 15th century in which the Virgin Mary grieves beneath the cross.
Lamiyyat al-Arab
Lamiyyat al-Arab (لامية العرب, "the L-poem of the Arabs") is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode of 68 verses attributed to the brigand-poet al-Shanfarā, one of the most commented works of classical Arabic poetry.
Lan Ling Wang: Willows
Lan Ling Wang: Willows is a celebrated parting lyric by the Northern Song poet Zhou Bangyan, set on the Sui Dike at Kaifeng and included in the Three Hundred Song Lyrics.
Lancelot-Grail
The Lancelot-Grail, also called the Vulgate cycle or Prose Lancelot, is a vast Old French prose cycle of Arthurian romances composed about 1215 to 1235.
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (Le Chevalier de la Charrette) is an Old French verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1180, in which Lancelot rescues Queen Guenevere.
Land (O'Farrell novel)
Land (2026) is Maggie O'Farrell's tenth novel, a historical family saga set in post-Great Hunger Ireland, about mapmaker Tomás and his son Liam surveying for the Ordnance Survey after a magical well transforms Tomás.
Land of Nairi
Land of Nairi (Yerkir Nairi) is the only novel of the Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents, written in 1921–1924 and regarded as a foundational text of modern Armenian literary modernism.
Land of Oz
The Land of Oz is the fictional fantasy country created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and expanded across his fourteen Oz novels.
Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国)
Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国, Houseki no Kuni) is Haruko Ichikawa's manga, serialized in Monthly Afternoon 2012–2024 in 13 volumes, about 28 immortal gem people fighting moon-raiding Lunarians; adapted as a 2017 full-3DCG anime by Orange and winner of the 45th Japan SF Grand Prize.
Landscape Painted with Tea
Landscape Painted with Tea (Predeo slikan čajem) is a 1988 novel by the Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, constructed so its chapters can be read across or down like a crossword puzzle.
Landscape poetry (shanshui)
Landscape poetry (山水詩, shanshui shi) is a genre of classical Chinese verse on natural mountains and waters, founded by Xie Lingyun in the fifth century.
Landscape-pastoral poetry
Landscape-pastoral poetry (山水田园诗, shanshui tianyuan shi) is a genre of classical Chinese poetry depicting natural scenery and rural life, peaking in the High Tang with Wang Wei and Meng Haoran.
Lanfear
Lanfear (Mierin Eronaile, Selene, Cyndane), a Forsaken in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time: strongest female channeler, drilled the Bore, obsessed with Lews Therin/Rand, killed by Moiraine, played by Natasha O'Keeffe on TV.
Langhuan Wenji
Langhuan Wenji (琅嬛文集) is the collected prose and poetry of the late Ming and early Qing writer Zhang Dai, one of the three works by which readers most often approach him.
Lao epic tradition
The Lao epic tradition is the body of long Lao-language narrative poems composed from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, best known for the epic Sang Sinxay.
Lão Hạc
Lão Hạc (Old Man Hạc) is a 1943 short story by Vietnamese writer Nam Cao about a poor widowed farmer forced to sell his beloved dog cậu Vàng.
Lao novel
A Lao novel is a work of extended prose fiction in the Lao language, beginning with Somchine Nginn's Phra Phoutthahoup Saksit in 1944 and shaped by war, revolution, and censorship.
Laoxue'an Biji
Laoxue'an Biji (老学庵笔记) is a ten-volume collection of miscellaneous notes by the Southern Song poet Lu You, written around 1189–1195 and admired as an outstanding work of Song biji writing.
Laputa
Laputa is the fictional flying island in Part III of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), ruled by impractical mathematicians whose loadstone-driven flight satirizes the Royal Society and Newtonian science, and names Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky.
Larry Niven bibliography
Larry Niven bibliography: catalog of the science fiction author's works from "The Coldest Place" (1964) through Ringworld, Known Space, and collaborations with Pournelle, Barnes, Benford, and Lerner, with opus numbers and in-universe chronology codes.
Las fuerzas extrañas
Las fuerzas extrañas is a 1906 collection of twelve short stories by the Argentine modernista writer Leopoldo Lugones, a founding work of fantastic narrative in Argentina.
Las lenguas de diamante
Las lenguas de diamante (Diamond Tongues) is the first poetry collection of the Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou, published in Buenos Aires in 1919 to immediate success.
Las personas del verbo
Las personas del verbo is the 1975 volume in which Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma gathered his complete poetry, collecting his three principal books revised by the author.
Lascas
Lascas is a 1901 book of poems by the Mexican poet Salvador Díaz Mirón, written during and after his imprisonment and considered a precursor of modernismo, the Spanish American modernist movement.