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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn: Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 Grove Press novel of six linked stories set in 1950s Red Hook, Brooklyn; famous for the 1967 UK obscenity ban overturned in 1968, over 750,000 copies sold, and a 1989 Uli Edel film adaptation.
Last Poems
Last Poems is the posthumous collection of W. B. Yeats's final poems, published as Last Poems and Two Plays by the Cuala Press in Dublin in 1939.
Last Samurai Standing
Last Samurai Standing (Ikusagami, イクサガミ) is a 2025 Netflix Japanese action series based on Shogo Imamura's Naoki Prize-winning novel, adapted as a Katsumi Tatsuzawa manga; Junichi Okada stars as ex-samurai Shujiro Saga in an 1878 Kyoto-to-Tokyo death game for 100 billion yen.
Last Summer in Chulimsk
Last Summer in Chulimsk (Прошлым летом в Чулимске) is a two-act play by the Soviet Russian dramatist Alexander Vampilov, completed in 1972 as his last finished play.
Latin bucolic tradition
The Latin bucolic tradition is Latin pastoral poetry of idealized shepherds, founded by Vergil's Eclogues in the 40s BCE and continued by Calpurnius Siculus and Nemesianus.
Latin literature
Latin literature, or literae Latinae, is literature written in Latin from Livius Andronicus's Saturnian Odyssey onward, marked by conscious imitation of Greek models, education-driven rhetoric, and survival through manuscript transmission.
Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King
Latna Saga: Survival of a Sword King (이계 검왕 생존기, Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World) is a Korean fantasy webtoon by Soon-Q adapting Lim Kyung-bae's web novel about Hanbin Ryu, stuck 20 years in a bugged tutorial; serialized on KakaoPage since 2019 and Tapas since 2021, with a Studio Pierrot anime announced.
Latvju dainas
Latvju dainas is the first complete scholarly edition of Latvian folk songs, compiled by Krišjānis Barons and published in six volumes between 1894 and 1915 in Jelgava and St Petersburg.
Laüstic
Laüstic, a Breton word for nightingale, is a 160-line narrative lai by Marie de France, telling of neighboring lovers exposed when the jealous husband kills a nightingale.
Lava (लव) (Ramayana)
Lava (लव), younger twin son of Rama and Sita in the Ramayana, raised with Kusha at Valmiki's ashram; the twins recite the 24,000-verse epic at Rama's ashvamedha, and traditions differ on Lava's later kingdom.
Lavanyavati
Lavanyavati (ଲାବଣ୍ୟବତୀ, also Labanyabati) is an Odia-language kavya by poet Upendra Bhanja, acclaimed as Kabi Samrat, narrating princess Lavanyavati's marriage to prince Chandrabhanu in ornate 18th-century Riti-period verse.
Lavorare stanca
Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor) is the first poetry collection by Italian writer Cesare Pavese, published in 1936 and reworked into a definitive Einaudi edition in 1943.
Lavoura Arcaica
Lavoura Arcaica (Ancient Tillage) is a 1975 novel by Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar, in which André returns to his Lebanese immigrant family's farm and confronts his father.
Law of the jungle
Law of the jungle: phrase coined by Rudyard Kipling in The Second Jungle Book (1895) for the Seeonee wolf-pack's code of cooperation and obedience, now used to mean ruthless self-interest, its opposite.
Layamon's Brut
Layamon's Brut is an early Middle English verse chronicle of more than 16,000 lines, composed around 1200 by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire.
Layar Terkembang
Layar Terkembang is a 1936 Indonesian novel by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana about two sisters, the activist Tuti and cheerful Maria, and the medical student Yusuf.
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى)
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى), also Leyli o Majnun, is a 7th-century Arabian tale of Qays ibn al-Mulawwaḥ's unrequited love, immortalized by Nizami's 1188 Persian poem and retold across Islamic literatures.
Lays of Ancient Rome
Lays of Ancient Rome is Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1842 collection of four ballads (Horatius, Lake Regillus, Virginia, Prophecy of Capys) written as lost Roman minstrel poems; a Victorian bestseller later attacked by Matthew Arnold.
Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes (La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes) is an anonymous 1554 Spanish novella, first of the picaresque genre; banned in 1559, expurgated until 1834, authorship still disputed.
Le Bateau ivre
Le Bateau ivre ("The Drunken Boat") is a hundred-line 1871 poem by Arthur Rimbaud in which a freed boat narrates a hallucinatory voyage; it is his most famous poem.
Le ceneri di Gramsci
Le ceneri di Gramsci (Gramsci's Ashes) is a 1957 collection of eleven long poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini, centered on an elegy at Antonio Gramsci's grave in Rome.
Le Chèvrefeuille
Le Chèvrefeuille, known in Old French as Chevrefoil or Chievrefueil, is the shortest lai of Marie de France, recounting an episode of Tristan and Iseut.
Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre, French for "the cipher", is the villain of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953), played on screen by Mads Mikkelsen in 2006.
Le Cimetière marin
Le Cimetière marin is a 1920 poem by Paul Valéry, a meditation on death and the sea set in the marine cemetery above Sète, his home town.
Le Cornet à dés
Le Cornet à dés is a collection of about 300 prose poems by the French writer and painter Max Jacob, published at his own expense in 1917.
Le Dormeur du val
Le Dormeur du val ("The Sleeper in the Valley") is a famous 1870 sonnet by Arthur Rimbaud about a dead soldier lying in a sunlit valley.
Le Grand Meaulnes
Le Grand Meaulnes is a 1913 French novel by Alain-Fournier in which narrator François Seurel recounts his friend Augustin Meaulnes' search for a mysterious festive domain.
Le Grand Testament
Le Grand Testament, or Le Testament, is a 2,023-verse narrative poem by François Villon dated 1461, a parody will whose burlesque bequests embed his lyric poems and mark his masterpiece.
Le Lac
"Le Lac" ("The Lake") is an elegiac poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in 1820 in his collection Méditations poétiques and addressed to the lake of Le Bourget.
Le Livre du Voir Dit
Le Livre du Voir Dit is an autobiographical narrative poem by Guillaume de Machaut, describing his late-life love for a young admirer called Toute Belle.