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The Duke's Son Claims He Won't Love Me yet Showers Me with Adoration

The Duke's Son Claims He Won't Love Me yet Showers Me with Adoration (きみを愛する気はないと言った次期公爵様がなぜか溺愛してきます, Kimi-Ai) is a Japanese fantasy romance manga by Kei Misawa and Natsu Mizuno, serialized since 2021 on Comic Polaris, with a 12-episode Zero-G/Grass anime airing July–September 2026 on TV Asahi and streamed on Crunchyroll.

The Duma about Marusia Bohuslavka

The Duma about Marusia Bohuslavka (Дума про Марусю Богуславку) is a Ukrainian folk epic telling of a captive priest's daughter who frees 700 Cossacks from a Turkish dungeon on Easter.

The Duma about Samiilo Kishka

The Duma about Samiilo Kishka (Дума про Самійла Кішку) is a Ukrainian folk epic, one of the largest dumy at 390 lines, about hetman Samiilo Kishka's escape from Turkish galley slavery.

The Dunciad

The Dunciad is a mock-epic satirical poem by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in three books in 1728 and expanded into its final four-book form in 1743.

The Dunwich Horror

The Dunwich Horror is a 1928 cosmic horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, published in Weird Tales in April 1929; set in fictional Dunwich, Massachusetts, it features Wilbur Whateley, Yog-Sothoth, and the Necronomicon, and is a core Cthulhu Mythos story.

The Eagle and the Serpent

The Eagle and the Serpent (El águila y la serpiente) is a 1928 novel by Martín Luis Guzmán about his experiences in the Mexican Revolution.

The Eagle Has Landed (novel)

The Eagle Has Landed is a 1975 World War II thriller by Jack Higgins in which German paratroopers land in Norfolk to kidnap Winston Churchill.

The Earthquake in Chile

The Earthquake in Chile (Das Erdbeben in Chili) is an 1807 novella by Heinrich von Kleist, first printed as Jeronimo und Josephe, set during the 1647 Santiago earthquake.

The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom

The Eccentric Doctor of the Moon Flower Kingdom (月華国奇医伝, Gekkakoku Kiiden) is a Japanese shōjo manga by Tohru Himuka, serialized in Kadokawa's Asuka since 2018; a medical fantasy about doctor Koyou and Crown Prince Keiun, published in English by Seven Seas.

The Edge Chronicles

The Edge Chronicles, by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, is an illustrated children's fantasy series launched in 1998: 13 titles across five sagas (Quint, Twig, Rook, Nate, Cade) set on the Edge cliff, spanning 600 years and three Ages of Flight.

The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams is a third-person autobiography by the American historian Henry Adams, privately printed in 1907 and published in 1918, winning the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's 1968 Farrar, Straus and Giroux New Journalism classic, chronicles Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, their LSD Acid Tests, and the 1964 Furthur bus trip.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (L'Élégance du hérisson) is a 2006 novel by French writer Muriel Barbery about a Paris concierge who hides her intelligence.

The Elf on the Shelf

The Elf on the Shelf (also Elf on a Shelf) is a 2005 self-published picture book and scout-elf doll tradition by Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell, sold by The Lumistella Company, with 25 million-plus copies, Netflix specials, and surveillance-premise criticism.

The Elfstones of Shannara

The Elfstones of Shannara is Terry Brooks's 1982 epic fantasy novel, second in the original Shannara trilogy after The Sword of Shannara, in which Wil Ohmsford guards Amberle Elessedil on a quest to renew the Ellcrys and reimprison escaping Demons.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

The Elves and the Shoemaker, German Die Wichtelmänner (KHM 39), is the Brothers Grimm fairy tale first printed in 1812, about two naked elves who finish a poor shoemaker's leather overnight and depart when given clothes.

The Emigrants

The Emigrants, published in German as Die Ausgewanderten in 1992, is a book of four interconnected narratives by German writer W. G. Sebald about broken lives of exile.

The Eminence in Shadow (陰の実力者になりたくて!)

The Eminence in Shadow (陰の実力者になりたくて!) is a Daisuke Aizawa light novel series, illustrated by Touzai, about reincarnated Cid Kagenou whose invented evil cult proves real. Adaptations include a 2022 Nexus anime, manga, game, and film.

The Emissary

The Emissary (Japanese: Kentōshi) is a dystopian novel by Yoko Tawada about a disaster-stricken Japan cut off from the world, translated into English in 2018.

The Emperor of All Maladies

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a 2010 book by oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee tracing cancer's history and winning the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

The Emperor of Portugallia

The Emperor of Portugallia (Kejsarn av Portugallien) is a 1914 novel by Selma Lagerlöf about a Värmland crofter who loses his reason after his daughter leaves home.

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes (Kejserens nye Klæder) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 Danish fairy tale about swindlers who weave invisible cloth for a vain emperor, published with The Little Mermaid and classified as Aarne-Thompson 1620.

The Empusium

The Empusium (Polish: Empuzjon) is Olga Tokarczuk's 2022 post-Nobel novel, a horror-inflected retelling of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain set in 1913 at Görbersdorf sanatorium; English translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones appeared in 2024.

The Enchanted Wanderer

The Enchanted Wanderer (Очарованный странник) is an 1873 tale by Nikolai Leskov, recounting the life of Ivan Flyagin, a powerful former serf who wanders Russia.

The Enchanter

The Enchanter (Volshebnik) is a novella Vladimir Nabokov wrote in Russian in Paris in 1939, about a middle-aged man who marries a dying widow to reach her daughter.

The Encyclopedia of the Dead

The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Serbian: Енциклопедија мртвих) is a collection of nine stories by the Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš, published in Serbo-Croatian in 1983 and translated into English in 1989.

The End (novel)

The End (novel) covers several unrelated novels sharing this title: Lemony Snicket's 2006 finale of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Mats Strandberg's 2020 YA comet apocalypse, Fernanda Torres's 2017 debut, and Scibona's award finalist.

The End and the Beginning

"The End and the Beginning" (Koniec i początek) is a 1993 poem by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, about the unheroic work of cleaning up after war.

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair (1951) is Graham Greene's fourth and final Catholic novel, narrated by jealous novelist Maurice Bendrix about lover Sarah Miles in Blitz-era London; based on Greene's affair with Catherine Walston, filmed in 1955 and 1999.

The End of the Legend

The End of the Legend (Kazakh: Anyzdyn Aqyry) is a 1974 philosophical historical novel by Äbish Kekilbayev, a defining text of the Kazakh historical and psychological novel.