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Lucy Westenra
Lucy Westenra, fictional character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula: wealthy Victorian socialite, Mina Murray's best friend, Dracula's first English victim, destroyed by staking and beheading; subject of major critical debate and altered in most adaptations.
Ludwigslied
The Ludwigslied, meaning Lay of Ludwig, is an Old High German poem of 881/882 celebrating King Louis III's victory over a Viking force at Saucourt-en-Vimeu in 881.
Luha ng Buwaya
Luha ng Buwaya (Tears of the Crocodile) is a Tagalog novel by Amado V. Hernandez, first published in Manila in 1963, about poor tenant farmers who organize against a landlord family.
Lum (ラム) (Urusei Yatsura)
Lum (ラム), also Lum Invader, is the Oni-alien heroine of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura (うる星やつら, 1978–1987): she loses a tag game to Ataru Moroboshi, becomes his fiancée, and shocks him with controllable electricity.
Luna Lovegood
Luna Lovegood, fictional witch in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series; Ravenclaw, Dumbledore's Army member, born 1981; first appears in Order of the Phoenix; film Luna is Evanna Lynch.
Lunch Poems
Lunch Poems is a 1964 poetry collection by Frank O'Hara, written largely on his lunch breaks from the Museum of Modern Art and published by City Lights Books.
Lunheng
The Lunheng (论衡) is a collection of around 85 philosophical essays by the Han thinker Wang Chong, written to weigh accepted claims and expose falsehood.
Lưu Hương ký
Lưu Hương ký (留香記, Record of Lingering Fragrance) is a manuscript collection of 52 poems in Chinese and Nôm script attributed to the Vietnamese poet Hồ Xuân Hương.
Luuanda
Luuanda is a collection of three short stories by the Portuguese-born Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira, published in Luanda in 1964 and considered a founding work of Angolan literature.
Luzumiyat
Luzumiyat (اللزوميات), short for Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam, is the second major poetry collection of the blind Arab poet al-Maʿarrī, known for its unprecedented double rhyme scheme.
Lycidas
Lycidas is a pastoral elegy by John Milton, written in 1637 for a memorial volume for Edward King, a Cambridge fellow drowned in the Irish Sea.
Lynd Ward
Lynd Kendall Ward (1905–1985), American wood engraver and illustrator born in Chicago, created six wordless novels (1929–1937), beginning with Gods' Man, the first American woodcut novel and precursor of the graphic novel.
Lyra Belacqua
Lyra Belacqua, also called Lyra Silvertongue, is the orphan heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, daughter of Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel, daemon Pantalaimon, later adult protagonist of The Book of Dust.
Lyric poetry
Lyric poetry, from Greek lyrikos (lyre-accompanied song), is short personal verse expressing a speaker's feelings, contrasted with epic and drama; originating in 7th-century BCE Greece with Sappho and Pindar, and now covering odes, elegies, and sonnets.
Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 anonymous Bristol poetry collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched English Romanticism with 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere' and 'Tintern Abbey' and Wordsworth's 1800 Preface.
Lyrics of Lowly Life
Lyrics of Lowly Life is an 1896 poetry collection by Paul Laurence Dunbar, drawing mostly on his earlier books Oak and Ivy and Majors and Minors.
M (James Bond)
M (James Bond) is the code letter for the head of MI6 and James Bond's boss in Ian Fleming's novels and Eon films; Sir Miles Messervy in the books, played on film by Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, Judi Dench, and Ralph Fiennes.
M.A.S.K. (comic series)
M.A.S.K. is an ongoing Image Comics/Skybound comic series (2026) in the Energon Universe, by Dan Watters and Pye Parr, following Matt Trakker's masked agents against Miles Mayhem and V.E.N.O.M.
Ma Shuo
Ma Shuo (马说, "Discourse on Horses") is a short classical Chinese essay by the Tang dynasty writer Han Yu, arguing that talent exists only when someone able to recognize it does.
Mac Flecknoe
Mac Flecknoe is a mock-heroic verse satire by John Dryden, published in London in 1682, mocking the playwright Thomas Shadwell as heir to the throne of dullness.
Macavity
Macavity, the Mystery Cat and Hidden Paw, is T.S. Eliot's fictional feline master criminal from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), modeled on Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, later a villain in the musical Cats and its 2019 film.
Macbeth (character)
Macbeth is the protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, a Scottish general who murders King Duncan after a witches' prophecy, rules as tyrant, and is slain by Macduff; drawn from Holinshed's Chronicles and the historical king Mac bethad.
Mad (magazine)
Mad (MAD), American satire magazine founded 1952 by Harvey Kurtzman and William Gaines at EC Comics; became a magazine with issue #24 (1955), reached 2.3 million circulation in the 1970s under Al Feldstein, and remains in print under DC.
Mad (manga)
MAD (マッド, Maddo) is a post-apocalyptic SF survival manga by Yusuke Otori, serialized on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ since June 18, 2024, about survivor John on an alien-overrun Earth; eight Jump Comics volumes, ranked in Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2025 and Next Manga Award 2025.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary (Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province) is Gustave Flaubert's 1857 realist novel about Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife ruined by romantic illusions; known for its 1857 obscenity trial, free indirect style, and vast translation and adaptation history.
Madame Butterfly (short story)
Madame Butterfly, short story by John Luther Long (January 1898, Century Magazine), source of Belasco's 1900 play and Puccini's 1904 opera; Cho-Cho-San abandoned by Pinkerton survives her suicide attempt in Long's ending.
Madame Morrible
Madame Morrible (Madame Muriel Morrible), Shiz University headmistress and sorceress, secondary antagonist of Maguire's 1995 Wicked novel, the 2003 musical, and the 2024–25 films; Wizard's agent, Dillamond's murderer in the novel.
Madeline (book series)
Madeline is a children's picture book series by Ludwig Bemelmans, begun in 1939, about twelve Paris schoolgirls in two straight lines and the smallest, boldest girl; six Bemelmans books plus continuations by grandson John Bemelmans Marciano.
Madhumalati
Madhumalati (मधुमालती, Madhumālatī) is a sixteenth-century Sufi romance in Hindavi by the poet Manjhan, composed around 1545. It tells of Prince Manohar's love for Princess Madhumalati as a spiritual path.
Madhushala
Madhushala (मधुशाला, "The Tavern") is a collection of 135 Hindi quatrains by Harivansh Rai Bachchan, first published in 1935 and a major work of the Chhayavad movement.