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Daisy Buchanan
Daisy Buchanan (née Fay), fictional socialite in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925): Louisville debutante, Tom Buchanan's wife, Gatsby's lost love, and driver in Myrtle Wilson's death.
Daivathinte Vikrithikal
Daivathinte Vikrithikal (ദൈവത്തിന്റെ വികൃതികൾ) is a 1989 Malayalam novel by M. Mukundan, set in Mahe in the years after the French left, that won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Dalgliesh (TV series)
Dalgliesh is a British detective drama (2021–) starring Bertie Carvel as P.D. James's poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, produced by New Pictures for Acorn TV and Channel 5, adapting the novels in two-part cases set from 1975 onward, with a fourth season due in 2027.
Dalimil's Chronicle
Dalimil's Chronicle (Kronika tak řečeného Dalimila) is a rhymed Czech verse chronicle of the early 14th century and the oldest historical work composed in the Czech language.
Đăm Săn
Đăm Săn, also written Đam Săn, is the great oral epic of the Ê Đê people of Vietnam's Central Highlands, chanted in the khan genre in 2,077 verses.
Damage Control (comics)
Damage Control is a Marvel Comics construction company created by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colón, first appearing in 1989, that cleans up superhero battle damage; distinct from the MCU's Department of Damage Control government agency.
Damascus Station
Damascus Station (2021) is the debut spy thriller by former CIA analyst David McCloskey, published by W. W. Norton. Set in Syria during 2011-13, it follows CIA officer Sam Joseph and his recruit, palace official Mariam Haddad, hunting an American spy's killer in Damascus.
Damaskin literature
Damaskin literature (Bulgarian and Serbian: дамаскини) is a body of South Slavic manuscript miscellanies of sermons and saints' lives, arising in the late 16th century from translations of Damaskin Studit's Thesaurus.
Dan Abnett bibliography
Dan Abnett bibliography: published works of British novelist and comic writer Dan Abnett (born 1965), covering Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn, Horus Heresy, Guardians of the Galaxy with Andy Lanning, and 2000 AD series such as Sinister Dexter.
Dan Brown
Dan Brown (born 1964) is the American thriller author of The Da Vinci Code and the Robert Langdon series; over 250 million copies in 56 languages, about $2.24 billion film gross.
Dandelion (だんでらいおん) (manga)
Dandelion (だんでらいおん) is Hideaki Sorachi's 2002 Weekly Shonen Jump debut one-shot, reprinted in Gintama volume 1 and adapted as a seven-episode Netflix anime in April 2026.
Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine is Ray Bradbury's 1957 semi-autobiographical novel (Doubleday) about twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding's summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois, based on Waukegan; a fix-up of short stories, first of the Green Town books, with sequel Farewell Summer (2006).
Danger Girl
Danger Girl is a 1998 spy-adventure comic co-created by J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell for WildStorm's Cliffhanger imprint, following agent Abbey Chase's team against the Hammer Syndicate, with spinoffs, a PlayStation game, and a 2027 Artist's Edition.
Dangkou Zhi
Dangkou Zhi, also known as Jie Shuihu Zhuan, is a Qing dynasty novel by Yu Wanchun, a deliberate counter to Water Margin in which government forces destroy the Liangshan outlaws.
Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda is George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, with a dual plot pairing Gwendolen Harleth's story in English society with Daniel's discovery of Jewish identity.
Daniel Silva (novelist)
Daniel Silva, American #1 New York Times bestselling spy-thriller novelist, former UPI and CNN journalist; creator of Israeli art-restorer spy Gabriel Allon, series begun with The Kill Artist (2000), 26th book Ransom due July 14, 2026.
Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, abbreviated DgF, is the standard critical edition of the Danish medieval ballads: 12 volumes, 539 ballad types, begun in 1853 and completed in 1976.
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream is a Stephen King novella from You Like It Darker (Scribner, May 21, 2024): janitor Danny Coughlin has a prophetic dream of a murder, reports it, and becomes the suspect, pursued by detective Jalbert.
Danny Torrance
Danny Torrance is Stephen King's child protagonist of The Shining (1977), gifted with the psychic "shining", targeted by the Overlook Hotel, played by Danny Lloyd in Kubrick's 1980 film, and revisited as an alcoholic adult in Doctor Sleep.
Danny, the Champion of the World
Danny, the Champion of the World is Roald Dahl's 1975 children's novel (from his 1960 short story in Kiss Kiss) about nine-year-old Danny and his poacher father outwitting landowner Victor Hazell; it first mentions the BFG and was filmed in 1989 with Jeremy Irons.
Danpyeon soseol
Danpyeon soseol (단편소설) is the Korean short story form, readable in half an hour to two hours and built around a single effect and unity of construction.
Dansimga
Dansimga (단심가, "Song of the Red Heart") is a sijo, a three-line Korean fixed-form poem, composed in the late Goryeo period by Jeong Mongju as his answer to Yi Bang-won's Hyeoga, declaring loyalty until death.
Dante's Satan
Dante's Satan, Lucifer in Inferno Canto XXXIV, is the three-faced, six-winged archangel frozen waist-deep in Cocytus at Hell's center, silently chewing Judas, Brutus, and Cassius while his wings freeze the lake, contrasting sharply with Milton's active Satan.
Danton's Death
Danton's Death (Dantons Tod) is a drama by the German writer Georg Büchner, set in Paris during the French Revolution and depicting Georges Danton's final two weeks before his 1794 execution.
Danzōtei Diary
The Danzōtei Diary (断腸亭日乗) is the diary of Japanese writer Nagai Kafū, kept almost daily from 1917 until the day before his death in 1959.
Daphnis and Chloe
Daphnis and Chloe is an ancient Greek prose romance by Longus, written in the 2nd or 3rd century CE about two foundlings discovering love on Lesbos.
Darangen
The Darangen is an ancient epic chant of the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippines, totaling 72,000 lines and proclaimed a UNESCO heritage masterpiece in 2005.
Daridro
Daridro (Bengali: দারিদ্র্য, "Poverty") is a 1926 Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam, national poet of Bangladesh, which addresses poverty as a source of greatness rather than mere want.
Dark Avengers
Dark Avengers: Marvel Comics series (2009-2010) by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato Jr., in which Norman Osborn leads villains posing as Avengers during Dark Reign, ending in Siege; relaunched 2012 from Thunderbolts numbering.
Dark Avenues
Dark Avenues (Тёмные аллеи) is a cycle of short stories on love and loss by Ivan Bunin, written in exile in France between 1937 and 1945.