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Liu Hou Lun
Liu Hou Lun (留侯論, "Discourse on the Marquis of Liu") is a classical Chinese essay by Song writer Su Shi arguing that Zhang Liang's success rested on forbearance.
Live and Remember
Live and Remember (Живи и помни) is a 1974 novella by Valentin Rasputin about a Soviet soldier who deserts and the wife hiding his secret.
Live Not by Lies
Live Not by Lies (Russian: «Жить не по лжи») is a short political essay by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released in 1974 on the day of his arrest and exile by Soviet authorities.
Live or Die
Live or Die is a 1966 poetry collection by the American poet Anne Sexton, a central work of confessional poetry that won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Lives of Girls and Women
Lives of Girls and Women is a 1971 book by Alice Munro, her only novel, following the coming of age of Del Jordan in small-town Ontario.
Lives of the Kings and Archbishops of Serbia
Lives of the Kings and Archbishops of Serbia, also called Danilo's collection, is a corpus of biographies of medieval Serbian rulers and archbishops written chiefly by Archbishop Danilo II.
Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Lives of the Mayfair Witches: Anne Rice's trilogy of The Witching Hour (1990), Lasher (1993), and Taltos (1994), about the New Orleans Mayfair witch dynasty bound to the spirit Lasher; adapted by AMC from 2023.
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, familiarly known as Lives of the Poets, is Samuel Johnson's 1779–1781 work of biographies and criticism of English poets.
Living Flame of Love
The Living Flame of Love (Llama de amor viva) is a four-stanza mystical poem with commentary by St. John of the Cross, describing the soul's union with God.
Lỡ bước sang ngang
Lỡ bước sang ngang is a 110-line lục bát narrative poem by the Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Bính, first printed in 1939 and a phenomenon of the Thơ mới era.
Loa to the Divine Narcissus
Loa to the Divine Narcissus is an introductory play by the Mexican nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, written for her sacramental drama El divino Narciso.
Local Anaesthetic
Local Anaesthetic (German: örtlich betäubt) is a 1969 novel by Günter Grass, set in West Berlin, where a schoolteacher tries to stop a pupil burning his dachshund in protest against napalm.
Locana
Locana (लोचन, "the Eye") is the Sanskrit commentary written by the Kashmiri philosopher Abhinavagupta on the Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana, the ninth-century treatise establishing dhvani, or poetic suggestion.
Lock of Berenice
The Lock of Berenice (Greek Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος) is an elegiac poem by Callimachus in which the lock of hair Queen Berenice II consecrated rises into the sky as a constellation.
Locke & Key
Locke & Key is an American horror-fantasy comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, following three siblings who find magical keys in their Massachusetts home.
Locked-room mystery
The locked-room mystery, also called the impossible crime, is detective fiction in which a murder is committed in seemingly impossible circumstances, beginning with Poe's 1841 story.
Lockwood & Co.
Lockwood & Co. is a young adult fantasy series by Jonathan Stroud about teenage agents hunting ghosts in a Britain plagued by a ghost epidemic called the Problem.
Locus Award
Locus Awards, annual literary awards for science fiction, fantasy, and horror presented since 1971 by a reader poll run by Locus magazine, administered by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation; subscriber votes count double, and the first novel winner was Larry Niven's Ringworld.
Loeb Classical Library
Loeb Classical Library: bilingual book series founded by James Loeb in 1911, published by Harvard University Press, pairing Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations; green for Greek, red for Latin; digitized in 2014.
Log Horizon (ログ・ホライズン)
Log Horizon (ログ・ホライズン) is Mamare Touno's isekai light novel series about 30,000 players trapped in the MMORPG Elder Tale, web-serialized from 2010, printed from 2011 in 11 volumes, adapted into an NHK anime from 2013 by Satelight and Studio Deen.
Logan's Run
Logan's Run, dystopian science fiction novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson (Dial Press, 1967), set in a youth-ruled 2116 where mandatory death at 21 via Sleepshops is enforced by Sandmen; adapted into a 1976 Michael Anderson film raising the age to 30.
Logicomix
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Greek: Ιδέα και ιστορία) is a 2008/2009 graphic novel by Doxiadis and Papadimitriou telling Bertrand Russell's foundational quest in mathematics, with metafictional framing and acknowledged historical liberties.
Lois McMaster Bujold bibliography
Lois McMaster Bujold bibliography: complete fiction list of the Vorkosigan Saga, World of the Five Gods, Penric and Desdemona, and Sharing Knife series, from Shards of Honor (1986) to Darksight Dare (2026), with Hugo and Nebula wins.
Lokasenna
Lokasenna, meaning "Loki's quarrel," is a mythological poem of the Poetic Edda in which Loki insults the assembled gods at a feast until Thor drives him out.
Lokgatha
Lokgatha (लोकगाथा, "folk ballad") is a sung narrative tradition of the Indian subcontinent, telling long stories in verse in the people's spoken language, transmitted orally across generations.
Lolita
Lolita, Nabokov's 1955 novel (Olympia Press, Paris; US 1958), narrated by unreliable pedophile Humbert Humbert about his abuse of 12-year-old Dolores Haze; famous for censorship history, Kubrick's 1962 film, and ethical criticism.
Lonely Mountain
The Lonely Mountain (Sindarin Erebor) is Tolkien's solitary Dwarf-peak in north-east Rhovanion, seat of the Kingdom under the Mountain founded T.A. 1999, sacked by Smaug in 2770, and retaken in The Hobbit's quest of 2941.
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is a travel media company and guidebook publisher founded in 1973 by Tony and Maureen Wheeler with Across Asia on the Cheap; now owned by Red Ventures (since 2020), it claims the world's #1 guidebook publisher position.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by Larry McMurtry, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, following two retired Texas Rangers on a vast cattle drive.
Long Island Compromise
Long Island Compromise is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's second novel (Random House, July 2024), a family saga about wealthy Long Island Jewish siblings shaped by their father Carl Fletcher's 1980 kidnapping and $250,000 ransom, and by the later collapse of the family fortune.