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Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions (Illusions perdues) is a three-part 1843 novel by Honoré de Balzac following the poet Lucien de Rubempré from Angoulême to the Parisian press and back.
Lost Love
Lost Love (Spanish: amor perdido) is a Spanish phrase meaning a love that has ended, also the title of a bolero and a 1977 book by Carlos Monsiváis.
Lothlórien
Lothlórien, also called Lórien or the Golden Wood, is the Silvan Elf woodland realm of Galadriel and Celeborn in Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Misty Mountains between the Celebrant and Anduin, home of the mallorn trees, Caras Galadhon, and Cerin Amroth.
Louis de Pointe du Lac
Louis de Pointe du Lac is the vampire narrator of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976). Portrayed by Brad Pitt in 1994 and Jacob Anderson in AMC's series, he is a guilt-ridden, humanity-clinging vampire reimagined as a Black New Orleanian.
Lovada Sangarawa
Lovada Sangarawa (ලෝවැඩ සඟරාව) is a 15th-century Sinhala didactic poem of about 140 verses, composed by Vidagama Maitreya Mahathera under King Parakramabahu VI of Kotte to teach Buddhism in plain Sinhala.
Love Bullet
Love Bullet (ラブ・バレット, Rabu Baretto) is a yuri action-comedy manga by inee, serialized from October 2023 in Monthly Comic Flapper (Media Factory), about reborn Cupids using guns for matchmaking; distinguished from unrelated films Love and Bullets and Love and a Bullet.
Love in a Fallen City (倾城之恋)
Love in a Fallen City (倾城之恋) is a 1943 novella by Chinese writer Eileen Chang, following Bai Liusu through a wartime courtship in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Love in Exile
Love in Exile (الحب في المنفى) is a 1995 Arabic novel by Egyptian writer Bahaa Taher, telling of an exiled Egyptian journalist and his love affair with a young Austrian woman.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is Gabriel García Márquez's 1985 novel, his first after the 1982 Nobel Prize, following Florentino Ariza's half-century pursuit of Fermina Daza in a cholera-plagued Caribbean port city.
Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a 1984 novel by Louise Erdrich, her first, following the intertwined Kashpaw and Lamartine families on a North Dakota reservation across roughly fifty years; it won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Love Story (novel)
Love Story, Erich Segal's 1970 Harper & Row debut novel of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri, Harvard and Radcliffe students; over 21 million copies sold in 33+ languages, source of 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' and the 1970 film.
Love Tyrant (恋愛暴君)
Love Tyrant (恋愛暴君, Ren'ai Bōkun) is a romantic-comedy web manga by Megane Mihoshi, serialized on COMIC Meteor 2012–2018 in 14 volumes, about the Kiss Note; adapted into a 12-episode 2017 EMT Squared anime. Distinct from Hinako Takanaga's The Tyrant Falls in Love.
Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky
Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky is a Japanese light novel series by Nanigashi Shima about a withdrawn student and Koharu, a blind woman who dreams of launching fireworks.
Love You Forever
Love You Forever is a 1986 picture book by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw, tracing a mother's lullaby to her son across his life. Born from Munsch's grief over two stillborn babies, it sold about 15 million copies.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions (Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!, 中二病でも恋がしたい！) is a Japanese light novel series by Torako, adapted by Kyoto Animation into a two-season anime (2012, 2014), the 2013 Rikka Version compilation film, and the 2018 film Take On Me.
Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost is Shakespeare's mid-1590s comedy in which the King of Navarre and three lords forswear women, then fall for the Princess of France and her ladies; first printed 1598, ending without marriage.
Lovecraft Country (novel)
Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff's 2016 Harper horror novel (not the HBO series), follows Atticus Turner, a Black Korean War veteran, from 1954 Chicago to New England against the sorcerous Order of the Ancient Dawn; World Fantasy Award nominee, adapted 2020.
Lovecraftian horror
Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror or eldritch horror, is a horror subgenre named for H. P. Lovecraft, centered on the unknowable, human insignificance, and the indifferent universe of his Cthulhu Mythos.
Low fantasy
Low fantasy is a fantasy subgenre where magic intrudes on the real, primary world, contrasted with high fantasy's invented secondary worlds; also framed by Mendlesohn as intrusion fantasy, with a contested magic-scarcity usage.
Lu Gui Bu
Lu Gui Bu (录鬼簿, A Register of Ghosts) is a two-volume register of Yuan dynasty zaju and sanqu writers, compiled by the playwright Zhong Sicheng and completed in 1330.
Lu Xun Literary Prize
The Lu Xun Literary Prize (鲁迅文学奖) is a Chinese literary award given every four years by the China Writers Association in seven categories, first awarded in 1997.
Lửa thiêng
Lửa thiêng (Sacred Fire) is the first poetry collection of Vietnamese poet Huy Cận, published in Hanoi in 1940 and a landmark of the New Poetry movement.
Luarsab
Luarsab, full name Luarsab Tatkaridze, is the protagonist of Ilia Chavchavadze's 1863 satirical story "Katsia-Adamiani?!", whose name became a Georgian common noun for an idle, self-satisfied man.
Lucario (ルカリオ)
Lucario (ルカリオ), #448, the Aura Pokémon, is a Fighting/Steel Pokémon evolving from Riolu that debuted in the 2005 film Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, stars in Smash Bros. with its damage-scaling Aura mechanic, and ranked second in the 2020 Pokémon of the Year poll.
Luceafărul
Luceafărul ("The Evening Star") is an 1883 philosophical poem by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, in 98 stanzas telling of a celestial being in love with a mortal princess.
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (星のサミダレ)
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (惑星のさみだれ, Wakusei no Samidare) is a completed 2005-2010 seinen manga by Satoshi Mizukami about a knight serving a princess who wants to conquer Earth, adapted into a widely criticized 24-episode 2022 anime by studio NAZ.
Lucíola
Lucíola is an 1862 urban romance by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, in which a courtesan named Lúcia seeks redemption through love in Second Empire Rio de Janeiro.
Luckiest Girl Alive
Luckiest Girl Alive is Jessica Knoll's 2015 debut psychological thriller about Ani FaNelli, partly based on Knoll's own sexual assault, adapted into a 2022 Netflix film starring Mila Kunis.
Lucky Per
Lykke-Per (Lucky Per / A Fortunate Man) is Henrik Pontoppidan's 1898–1904 eight-volume Danish novel about pastor's son Per Sidenius, engineer and visionary, rewritten several times, Nobel-linked, part of the Danish Kulturkanon.
Lucy Pevensie
Lucy Pevensie, Queen Lucy the Valiant, is the youngest Pevensie sibling in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia; born 1932 in the timeline, she first enters Narnia through the wardrobe, reigns at Cair Paravel, and appears in five of the seven books.