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Le Marteau sans maître
Le Marteau sans maître ("The Hammer without a Master") is a 1934 poetry collection by the French poet René Char, the best-known book of his early period.
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century is a list of 20th-century books from a 1999 reader poll in the French newspaper Le Monde, drawn from 200 preselected titles.
Le occasioni
Le occasioni is the second poetry collection of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale, published in Turin in 1939 and dedicated to Irma Brandeis, the American Dante scholar he loved, appearing as Clizia.
Le Parnasse contemporain
Le Parnasse contemporain is a collective French poetry anthology published by Alphonse Lemerre in 1866, 1871, and 1876, which gave its name to the Parnassian school.
Le Parti pris des choses
Le Parti pris des choses, Francis Ponge's first major book, is a 1942 collection of prose poems on everyday objects like the oyster, bread, and soap.
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine, "The Pilgrimage of Human Life," is a French allegorical dream-vision poem of 13,639 verses written by Guillaume de Deguileville in 1330–1331.
Le Pont Mirabeau
Le Pont Mirabeau is a poem by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, first published in 1912 and collected in Alcools in 1913, meditating on lost love and time.
Le Remède de Fortune
Le Remède de Fortune, also spelled Remede de Fortune, is a narrative poem with interpolated songs, a dit, written in French by Guillaume de Machaut around 1340.
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris is the first part of the Old French allegorical dream-vision poem Roman de la Rose, written around 1230.
Le Roman de Renart
Le Roman de Renart is a cycle of Old French comic animal poems about the trickster fox Renart, written by mostly anonymous authors from about 1170 to 1250.
Le Roman de Thèbes
Le Roman de Thèbes is an anonymous Old French verse romance of about 1150 adapting Statius's Thebaid, telling the war of Oedipus's sons for Thebes.
Le Roman de Tristan
Le Roman de Tristan, also cited as Tristran, is a fragmentary Old French poem of about 4,485 verses by the Norman poet Béroul, retelling the love of Tristan and Iseut.
Le Roman de Troie
The Roman de Troie, meaning Romance of Troy, is an Old French poem of over 30,000 lines by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, composed around 1165 and retelling the Trojan War.
Le Roman inachevé
Le Roman inachevé is an autobiographical long poem by the French writer Louis Aragon, published by Gallimard in 1956 and marking his return to lyric poetry.
Le Spleen de Paris
Paris Spleen (Le Spleen de Paris, also published as Petits Poèmes en prose) is a 1869 collection of fifty prose poems by Charles Baudelaire, a founding text of literary modernism.
Le Voyage
"Le Voyage" is the final poem of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, the longest in the collection, added in the 1861 edition and dedicated to Maxime Du Camp.
Leaf by Niggle
Leaf by Niggle is a short story by J.R.R. Tolkien about a painter who leaves his great Tree painting during a journey, completing it only in the afterlife.
League of Assassins
The League of Assassins is a DC Comics international organization of killers founded and usually led by Ra's al Ghul, the Demon's Head. It debuted in Strange Adventures #215 (1968), was named in Detective Comics #405 (1970), and was renamed the League of Shadows in the Nolan films.
Learning to Love My Cat-like Classmate
Learning to Love My Cat-like Classmate (Tonari no Neko to Koi Shirazu, also The Deskmate Cat and the Love Novice) is a romantic comedy manga by Akinoko about shy student Minato Seno and cat-like classmate Mugi Nekozane, serialized since 2023.
Leatherstocking Tales
The Leatherstocking Tales are five novels by James Fenimore Cooper (1823–1841) following frontiersman Natty Bumppo, also called Hawkeye, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Leatherstocking, across the eighteenth-century American frontier.
Leave the World Behind (novel)
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam's 2020 Ecco novel (his third), strands two families in a remote Long Island rental during an unexplained catastrophe; National Book Award finalist, later a Netflix film with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's lifelong poetry collection, self-published in Brooklyn in 1855 as twelve untitled poems and expanded to almost 400 poems across six lifetime editions, ending with the 1891-92 deathbed edition.
Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Leaves of the Banyan Tree is a 1979 novel by Samoan writer Albert Wendt, following three generations of a family in Western Samoa under colonial rule.
Leaving Jingci Temple at Dawn to See Off Lin Zifang
"Leaving Jingci Temple at Dawn to See Off Lin Zifang" (晓出净慈寺送林子方) is a 1187 quatrain by the Southern Song poet Yang Wanli, written to farewell his friend Lin Zifang.
Lebanese fiction
Lebanese fiction is prose fiction by Lebanese authors in Arabic, French, and English, shaped by the Nahda, the civil war of 1975 to 1990, and emigration.
Lectures on Russian Literature
Lectures on Russian Literature is a 1981 collection, edited by Fredson Bowers, of Vladimir Nabokov's lectures on Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Gorky from his teaching at Wellesley and Cornell.
Left Behind
Left Behind is Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins' dispensationalist rapture-thriller series published by Tyndale House from 1995, sixteen novels selling over 80 million copies, with Kirk Cameron and Nicolas Cage film adaptations.
Left March
Left March (Левый марш) is an agitational poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in December 1918 for revolutionary sailors in Petrograd and built on the chanted refrain "Left! Left! Left!".
Lefty
Lefty is an 1881 story by Nikolai Leskov, written in the skaz genre, about three Tula gunsmiths who outdo English craftsmanship by shoeing a steel flea.
Legal thriller
Legal thriller: a crime fiction subgenre built on trials, legal procedure, and lawyer protagonists, written mostly by legal professionals; defined by Gardner, Turow's Presumed Innocent (1987), and Grisham's bestsellers.