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Life of Pi
Life of Pi is Yann Martel's 2001 novel, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, about Pi Patel surviving 227 days adrift with a Bengal tiger, told through two alternative versions of the story.
Life of Saint Clement of Ohrid
The Life of Saint Clement of Ohrid is the hagiographic account of Clement of Ohrid, Cyril and Methodius's disciple and first bishop of the Bulgarians, who died in 916.
Life of Saint George the New
The Life of Saint George the New, also called Житие на Георги Нови, is a 16th-century hagiographic account of the martyr George of Kratovo, burned in Sofia in 1515.
Life of Saint Louis
The Life of Saint Louis (Vie de Saint Louis) is a French chronicle of King Louis IX written by his crusade companion Jean de Joinville between 1297 and 1309.
Life of Saint Simeon
The Life of Saint Simeon (Житије светог Симеона) is a 13th-century Serbian hagiography about Stefan Nemanja, the grand župan who became the monk Simeon on Mount Athos.
Life of Saint Simeon Nemanja
The Life of Saint Simeon Nemanja is a 1207/1208 hagiography by Saint Sava, the first Serbian princely vita, honoring his father, the monk-prince Stefan Nemanja.
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's 1883 book about his years as a Mississippi steamboat pilot before the Civil War and his 1882 return to the river.
Life Studies
Life Studies is a 1959 poetry collection by Robert Lowell, regarded as the starting point of confessional poetry, a term critic M. L. Rosenthal coined in his review.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual (La Vie mode d'emploi) is a 1978 novel by French writer Georges Perec, winner of the prix Médicis, interweaving the stories of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment building.
Light and Darkness
Light and Darkness (Meian) is the last novel by the Japanese writer Natsume Soseki, serialized in the Asahi Shimbun in 1916 and left unfinished when he died that December.
Light in August
Light in August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner, his seventh and fourth set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, centered on three outsiders in Jefferson, Mississippi.
Light novel
Light novel (ライトノベル, raito noberu; ranobe): Japanese young-adult prose fiction in A6 bunkobon format with manga-style illustrations, dialogue-heavy, no strict definition, published via imprints like Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko and Dengeki Bunko; distinct from web novels, manga, and Western YA.
Lightning (Koontz novel)
Lightning (originally Lightning Road) is Dean Koontz's 1988 Putnam suspense novel about Laura Shane, saved repeatedly by Stefan, a time-traveling Nazi scientist using the lightning road; a bestseller despite mixed reviews.
Like the Molave
Like the Molave is a 1940 patriotic poem by Filipino poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa, which won first prize for poetry at the 1940 Commonwealth Literary Awards.
Lilacharitra
Lilacharitra (लीळाचरित्र) is a thirteenth-century Marathi prose biography of Chakradhar Swami, founder of the Mahanubhava sect, compiled by his disciple Mhaimbhatt around 1278 and regarded as the first prose work in Marathi literature.
Liliana's Invincible Summer
Liliana's Invincible Summer (El invencible verano de Liliana) is Cristina Rivera Garza's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir reconstructing her sister Liliana's 1990 femicide in Mexico City and her search for the fugitive killer.
Lilit Phra Lo
Lilit Phra Lo (ลิลิตพระลอ) is a Thai narrative poem of the Ayutthaya period retelling the northern legend of Phra Lo, whose love for the princesses Phuean and Phaeng ends tragically.
Lilit Taleng Phai
Lilit Taleng Phai (ลิลิตตะเลงพ่าย) is a Thai epic panegyric poem by Prince Paramanuchit Chinorot of the Third Reign, celebrating King Naresuan's victory in the 1592 elephant duel.
Lilith (novel)
Lilith: A Romance, George MacDonald's 1895 fantasy novel, his last and most enigmatic, in which Mr. Vane enters a mirror-world where Adam's first wife Lilith is redeemed by surrendering her will.
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman is an 1885 narrative poem in five books by American poet Ada Langworthy Collier, retelling the rabbinic legend of Adam's first wife sympathetically, linking her name to the word lullaby.
Lilla Weneda
Lilla Weneda is an 1839 Polish Romantic tragedy in five acts by Juliusz Słowacki, set in legendary prehistoric Poland during the Lechite conquest of the Weneds.
Lilliput and Blefuscu
Lilliput and Blefuscu are the two fictional island empires of Part I of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), at 12:1 scale, at war over which end of an egg to break, satirizing Whigs, Tories, and English religious history.
Limerick (poetry)
Limerick (poetry): a five-line English comic verse form, AABBA rhyme, anapestic rhythm, three stresses on lines 1, 2, 5 and two on 3, 4; first printed 1820, popularized by Edward Lear's 1846 A Book of Nonsense.
Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters
Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters is the English title Qian Zhongshu gave to Guanzhui bian, his four-volume 1979 collection of essays on Chinese classics.
Lincoln (novel)
Lincoln: A Novel is Gore Vidal's 1984 Random House historical novel (657 pages) about Abraham Lincoln's presidency, part of his Narratives of Empire cycle, adapted by NBC in 1988 and disputed by Lincoln scholars over factual accuracy.
Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders's 2017 Man Booker Prize-winning first novel, tells of Abraham Lincoln's 1862 graveyard visit to his dead son Willie through 166 ghosts and collaged real-and-invented historical quotations.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史)
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史, Shī Shì shí shī shǐ) is a Classical Chinese homophonic text by linguist Yuen Ren Chao, every syllable read shi in Mandarin; drafted by Hu Mingfu in 1916, revised in the 1950s, and printed in Britannica in 1960.
Lipika
Lipika (লিপিকা) is a 1922 collection of short prose pieces by Rabindranath Tagore, where he experimented with prose poetry in Bengali through prose poems, allegories, and sketches.
Lira dos Vinte Anos
Lira dos Vinte Anos is a book of poetry by Brazilian poet Álvares de Azevedo, published posthumously in 1853 and regarded as a central work of ultrarromantismo.
Lira Paulistana
Lira Paulistana is the name of Mário de Andrade's final poetry book, published in 1945, and of an avant-garde theater in São Paulo's Pinheiros district that took its name.