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Legend (Lu novel)
Legend (2011) is Marie Lu's debut YA dystopian novel from Putnam, first of the Legend series with Prodigy, Champion, and Rebel. It alternates the perspectives of fugitive Day and military prodigy June in a divided future North America.
Legion of Doom
Legion of Doom, DC Comics supervillain team opposed to the Justice League; originated in the 1978 Challenge of the Super Friends cartoon with Lex Luthor and the Hall of Doom base; later comic versions led by Luthor began in Justice League Vol 4 #1 (2018).
Legion of Super-Heroes
Legion of Super-Heroes (LSH), DC Comics' 30th/31st-century teen super-team, debuted in Adventure Comics #247 (1958) by Otto Binder and Al Plastino with Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad; repeatedly rebooted after Crisis on Infinite Earths, relaunched September 2026 by Joshua Williamson and Hayden Sherman.
Legion of Super-Villains
The Legion of Super-Villains is a DC Comics supervillain team, enemies of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Debuting in Superman #147 (August 1961) with Lightning Lord, Cosmic King, and Saturn Queen, later led by Tarik the Mute, Nemesis Kid, Superboy-Prime, and Saturn Queen; distinct from the Legion of Doom.
Lego Ninjago
Lego Ninjago (LEGO NINJAGO) is a Lego theme launched January 2011, built on ninja characters, Spinjitzu, a long-running TV series, Dragons Rising (2023), the 2017 movie, and 500+ sets.
Legolas
Legolas Greenleaf is Tolkien's Sindarin-origined Silvan Elf, son of King Thranduil of Mirkwood, the archer-scout of the Fellowship of the Ring, friend of Gimli, drawn west by the sea-longing after Elessar's death.
Lelaki Harimau
Lelaki Harimau, published in English as Man Tiger, is a 2004 novel by Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan about a young man who conceals a supernatural female white tiger.
Lenz
Lenz is an 1835 novella by Georg Büchner that portrays the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz descending into mental illness while staying with pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin in the Vosges mountains.
Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Leonardo (Leo), TMNT character created by Eastman and Laird, debuting in TMNT #1 (May 1984); blue-bandana, katana-wielding oldest brother and leader in most incarnations, named after Leonardo da Vinci.
Les Antiquités de Rome
Les Antiquités de Rome is a 1558 sonnet sequence of 32 sonnets by the French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay, meditating on the grandeur and ruin of ancient Rome.
Les Chants de Maldoror
Les Chants de Maldoror is an 1869 prose-poem in six chants by Isidore Ducasse, writing as the Comte de Lautréamont, whose evil protagonist Maldoror rebels against God and humankind.
Les Châtiments
Les Châtiments is an 1853 collection of 98 satirical poems by Victor Hugo, written in exile on Jersey to denounce Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's 1851 coup d'état and his regime.
Les Chimères
Les Chimères is a group of twelve sonnets by the French writer Gérard de Nerval, composed between 1841 and 1853 and first published in January 1854.
Les Complaintes
Les Complaintes is an 1885 collection of 51 poems by Jules Laforgue, his first published collection, which revived the old complainte song genre through irony and liberated verse.
Les Contemplations
Les Contemplations is an 1856 poetry collection by Victor Hugo, published during his exile in about eleven thousand verses and organized around the death of his daughter Léopoldine in 1843.
Les Destinées
Les Destinées is an 1864 posthumous collection of eleven philosophical poems by the French poet Alfred de Vigny, containing his best-known poems La Mort du loup and La Maison du berger.
Les Échecs amoureux
Les Échecs amoureux (Les Eschés amoureux, "The Amorous Chess Game") is a long Old French allegorical poem of about 30,000 verses, written around 1370 to 1380.
Les Faits des Romains
Les Faits des Romains (Old French Li Fet des Romains) is an anonymous Old French prose compilation, composed around 1213–1214, telling Roman history through the life of Julius Caesar.
Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal, also known as the poetry collection French for "The Flowers of Evil," is by Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1857 and condemned for moral outrage.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, told in 175 letters between libertines Valmont and Merteuil; scandalous 1782 success, censored 1823, adapted by Vadim, Frears, and Forman.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's 1862 French novel, written in Guernsey exile over 1845–1861: Jean Valjean's redemption through 1832 Paris, a 300,000-franc bestseller placed on the Index and endlessly adapted.
Les Nuits
Les Nuits is a cycle of four poems by Alfred de Musset, written between 1835 and 1837 and inspired by his rupture with George Sand.
Les Orientales
Les Orientales is a collection of 41 poems by Victor Hugo, published in January 1829, evoking an imagined Mediterranean Orient and marking a breakthrough in his poetic innovation.
Les Quatre Fils Aymon
Les Quatre Fils Aymon, also known as Renaut de Montauban, is an Old French chanson de geste about Renaud and his brothers, persecuted by Charlemagne.
Les Rayons et les Ombres
Les Rayons et les Ombres ("Beams and Shadows") is a lyric poetry collection by Victor Hugo, published in Paris in 1840 and containing some of his best-known poems.
Les Regrets
Les Regrets is a 1558 collection of 191 sonnets by the French Renaissance poet Joachim Du Bellay, expressing homesickness for Anjou and disillusionment with Rome.
Les Tragiques
Les Tragiques is an epic poem in seven books by the French Protestant writer and soldier Agrippa d'Aubigné, first published anonymously in 1616 after roughly forty years of composition.
Les Voix intérieures
Les Voix intérieures is a collection of 32 poems by Victor Hugo, published in Paris by Eugène Renduel in 1837, the fourth of his great lyric collections.
Les Yeux d'Elsa
Les Yeux d'Elsa is a 1942 collection of 21 poems by the French writer Louis Aragon, dedicated to his wife Elsa Triolet, that became a central work of the French Resistance.
Lesbian literature
Lesbian literature is writing by, about, or read as lesbian, from Sappho and Carmilla to The Well of Loneliness, 1950s pulp fiction, 1970s feminist presses, and today's sapphic genre boom.