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Long John Silver
Long John Silver is the one-legged pirate, ship's cook, and mutiny leader of Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883), inspired by William Ernest Henley; Robert Newton's 1950 Disney portrayal created the 'Arrr!' pirate accent and the pop-culture pirate archetype.
Long Song Xing
Long Song Xing (长歌行) is a Han-dynasty yuefu folk poem urging readers to strive in youth, known for its closing maxim about grieving in old age.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Thomas Wolfe's debut novel, is a highly autobiographical coming-of-age story following Eugene Gant from birth to college, set in a fictionalized Asheville; banned locally, praised by Sinclair Lewis, adapted to a Pulitzer-winning Broadway play.
Look Who's Back
Look Who's Back (Er ist wieder da) is Timur Vermes's 2012 satirical debut novel in which Hitler wakes in 2011 Berlin, is mistaken for an impersonator, and returns to politics; over 2 million German copies, 41 languages, 2015 film.
Looking Backward: 2000–1887
Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is an 1888 utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy in which Julian West wakes in the year 2000 to find America a socialist commonwealth.
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is John Green's 2005 debut young adult novel about Miles Halter at Alabama's Culver Creek boarding school and Alaska Young's death; it won the 2006 Printz Award and is frequently challenged.
Looking on Darkness
Looking on Darkness is the English title of Kennis van die aand, a 1973 novel by André Brink that became the first Afrikaans literary work banned by apartheid censors.
Lookism (외모지상주의) (manhwa)
Lookism (외모지상주의) is Park Tae-jun's Naver Webtoon series begun November 20, 2014, about bullied student Park Hyung-suk who switches between two bodies; first webtoon past 10 billion views, adapted into a 2022 Netflix anime by Studio Mir.
Lord Asriel
Lord Asriel is the aristocratic explorer, Dust scholar, and father of Lyra Belacqua in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; daemon Stelmaria; kills Roger to cross worlds; leads rebellion against the Authority; dies destroying Metatron.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim is Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel about seaman Jim, who abandons the steamer Patna, and Marlow's multi-voiced narration of him; serialized in Blackwood's Magazine 1899–1900, based on the 1880 Jeddah affair, a pioneering modernist narrative.
Lord John Grey (character)
Lord John Grey is Diana Gabaldon's fictional English officer and secretly gay aristocrat from the Outlander novels, hero of her Lord John historical mystery series and played on Starz's Outlander by David Berry, with a long-discussed spin-off.
Lord Marksman and Vanadis (魔弾の王と戦姫)
Lord Marksman and Vanadis (魔弾の王と戦姫) is Tsukasa Kawaguchi's 14-volume MF Bunko J fantasy light novel (from 2011) about archer Tigrevurmud Vorn and the war maiden Elenora Viltaria, adapted into a 2014 Satelight TV anime and revived in seven Dash X Bunko volumes.
Lord of Light
Lord of Light is Roger Zelazny's 1967 science fiction novel, winner of the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, in which colonists rule a planet as the Hindu pantheon and Sam, posing as the Buddha, leads a rebellion; its unused film artwork became the CIA's Argo cover story.
Lord of Mysteries (诡秘之主)
Lord of Mysteries (诡秘之主), Chinese web novel by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼), serialized on Qidian 2018–2020; Victorian-steampunk Cthulhu fantasy with 22 Sequence pathways, sequel Circle of Inevitability, Yen Press print, 2025 donghua.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies, William Golding's 1954 Faber novel, follows schoolboys stranded on a Pacific island who descend into savagery. A deliberate reversal of Ballantyne's The Coral Island, it borrows the names Ralph and Jack, is a canonical school text, and was first adapted for television by Jack Thorne in 2026.
Lord Peter Wimsey
Lord Peter Wimsey, full name Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey, is Dorothy L. Sayers's fictional aristocratic amateur detective, a shell-shocked WWI veteran appearing in eleven interwar novels (1923–1937) and 21 short stories, later adapted for television.
Lord Soth
Lord Soth (Lord Loren Soth) is a Dragonlance death knight villain, a fallen Solamnic Knight of the Rose exiled to Dargaard Keep, later darklord of Sithicus in Ravenloft and a villain in Vecna: Eve of Ruin.
Lord Weary's Castle
Lord Weary's Castle is Robert Lowell's second poetry collection, published in 1946 and awarded the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, with the elegy "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" as its best-known poem.
Lore Olympus
Lore Olympus is a romance webcomic by Rachel Smythe on WEBTOON (2018-2024, 280 episodes), a modern retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth. It won three consecutive Eisner Awards for Best Webcomic and is being adapted as a Prime Video animated series.
Lorien Legacies
Lorien Legacies, also the I Am Number Four series, is a seven-book YA sci-fi series by pseudonymous Pittacus Lore (James Frey and Jobie Hughes), 2010 to 2016, about nine Loric aliens hiding on Earth from the Mogadorians, with a 2011 film adaptation and a Reborn sequel series.
Lorikayan
Lorikayan (लोरिकायन), also called Loriki, is a Bhojpuri folk epic telling of the Ahir warrior Lorik and the heroine Manjari; it is the largest Bhojpuri folk epic.
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. Blackmore's 1869 Victorian historical romance set on Exmoor, telling of farmer John Ridd and Lorna of the outlaw Doone clan; slow-selling three-decker that became a lasting classic.
Los amorosos
"Los amorosos" is a 1949 poem by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published in 1950 as the closing piece of his first book, Horal, and among the most quoted in Mexican literature.
Los cálices vacíos
Los cálices vacíos (Empty Chalices) is a 1913 poetry collection by the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini, her third and final book published before her 1914 murder.
Los hombres del alba
Los hombres del alba (The Men of Dawn) is a 1944 poetry collection by Mexican poet Efraín Huerta, regarded as a landmark in Mexican poetry.
Los pazos de Ulloa
Los pazos de Ulloa is an 1886-1887 naturalist novel by the Spanish writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, portraying the decay of an aristocratic household in rural Galicia.
Los perros hambrientos
Los perros hambrientos is a 1939 novel by the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, interweaving the lives of a peasant family's sheepdogs with famine caused by drought in the sierra.
Los trabajos del mar
Los trabajos del mar is a 1983 book of poems by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, known for bringing an ecological consciousness into Mexican poetry.
Lost Boys (Peter Pan)
Lost Boys (Peter Pan): Peter Pan's band of boys in Neverland, introduced in Barrie's 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy; named members include Tootles, Nibs, Slightly, Curly, and the twins.
Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon: James Hilton's 1933 utopian novel about Hugh Conway and Shangri-La; introduced Shangri-La to English, won the Hawthornden Prize, and became Pocket Books' first mass-market paperback, later adapted by Frank Capra in 1937.