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David Copperfield

David Copperfield is Charles Dickens's 1849–50 first-person novel, partly autobiographical, following David from harsh childhood to literary fame; illustrated by Phiz, adapted in 1935 and 2019 films.

David Weber bibliography

David Weber bibliography: complete works of David Mark Weber (born 1952, Cleveland), American military SF author of the Honor Harrington/Honorverse series (Baen, 1993–2024) and the ten-book Safehold series (Tor, 2007–2019), plus Dahak, War God, Empire of Man, and Starfire collaborations.

Davitiani

Davitiani (დავითიანი) is the collected poetical works of Georgian Baroque poet Davit Guramishvili (1705–1792), compiled as an autograph manuscript in 1787 and including "The Woes of Georgia" and "Shepherd Katsvia".

Davos Seaworth

Davos Seaworth, the Onion Knight (Davos Shorthand), is a smuggler-turned-knight of House Seaworth in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones: Stannis Baratheon's loyal Hand, hero of the Storm's End food run, POV from A Clash of Kings, played by Liam Cunningham.

Dawn of X

Dawn of X is the opening 2019-2020 phase of Marvel's Krakoan X-Men era, following House of X/Powers of X, overseen by Jonathan Hickman as Head of X, and collected in interleaved trade paperbacks.

Đây mùa thu tới

"Đây mùa thu tới" ("Here Comes Autumn") is a 1938 poem by the Vietnamese poet Xuân Diệu, published in his debut collection Thơ thơ of the New Poetry movement.

Day of the Oprichnik

Day of the Oprichnik (Den' oprichnika) is a 2006 satirical dystopian novella by Vladimir Sorokin, following one day of an oprichnik serving a future Russian tsar.

Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ

Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ ('Here in Vĩ Dạ Hamlet') is a 1938 Vietnamese poem by Hàn Mặc Tử, considered a masterpiece of modern Vietnamese poetry.

Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse

"Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse" is a free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Ai Qing, written in prison in Shanghai in January 1933 as a memorial to his peasant wet nurse.

Days and Nights

Days and Nights (Дни и ночи) is a novella by the Soviet writer Konstantin Simonov about the 1942–1943 defense of Stalingrad, his first large prose work.

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (森崎書店の日々)

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (森崎書店の日々) is Satoshi Yagisawa's 2010 debut novel, a Chiyoda Literature Prize winner about Takako recovering at her uncle's Jimbocho used bookstore; filmed 2010, translated by Eric Ozawa 2023, over 1 million copies sold abroad.

Days of Future Past

Days of Future Past is a two-part X-Men comic storyline from 1981 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, depicting a dystopian future ruled by Sentinels.

Days of Keeping

Written by Carlos Monsiváis, Days of Keeping (Días de guardar) is a 1970 collection of crónicas centered on Mexico City life and the society of the 1960s.

Days of the Past

Days of the Past is the shared imaginative picture of the Armenian past that the novelist Raffi (Hakob Melik-Hakobian) created, dramatizing figures like Samvel and David Bek.

DC All In

DC All In is DC Comics' October 2024 line-wide publishing initiative, launched with a flipbook one-shot by Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson, that introduced the Absolute Universe (Absolute Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) and a refreshed core DC line.

DC Black Label

DC Black Label is a DC Comics imprint announced March 8, 2018 for standalone, out-of-continuity, mature-reader (Ages 17+) stories of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, launched with Batman: Damned, absorbing Vertigo's role in 2020, and now distinct from the revived Vertigo line.

DC Comics

DC Comics (Detective Comics), founded 1934 as National Allied Publications by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, publisher of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman; subsidiary of Warner Bros., official name adopted 1977.

DC Compact Comics

DC Compact Comics is DC Comics' line of $9.99, 5.5" x 8.5" full-color paperback reprints of backlist graphic novels, announced November 2023 and launched June 2024 with titles like Watchmen and All-Star Superman, aimed at new readers and manga buyers.

DC K.O.

DC K.O. (King Omega) is DC Comics' 2025–2026 five-issue event series by Scott Snyder and Javi Fernández, in which 32 fighters battle in a tournament against Darkseid's reign; it continues the DC All In era.

DC Next Level

DC Next Level (2026) is a DC Comics publishing initiative of creator-driven #1 series in main continuity, the second act of DC All In led by Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson, launching after DC K.O. with Lobo, Batwoman, and Deathstroke, unlike the separate Absolute Universe.

DC Rebirth

DC Rebirth is DC Comics' 2016 line-wide relaunch, restoring New 52-era continuity and legacy characters via Geoff Johns's DC Universe: Rebirth #1, twice-monthly $2.99 shipping, and a Watchmen-linked mystery that ran into Doomsday Clock.

DC vs. Marvel

DC vs. Marvel covers the rivalry between the two major American comic publishers and the 1996 four-issue crossover miniseries with fan-voted battles, the Amalgam mash-up comics, and later crossovers including 2025's Batman/Deadpool.

DC x Sonic the Hedgehog

DC x Sonic the Hedgehog is a DC Comics–Sega intercompany crossover: a five-issue 2025 limited series by Ian Flynn and Adam Bryce Thomas in which Darkseid invades Sonic's world for the Chaos Emeralds, followed by the 2026 sequel Metal Legion.

De Actibus Apostolorum

De Actibus Apostolores is a two-book Latin epic poem by the sixth-century poet Arator that retells the biblical Acts of the Apostles in dactylic hexameters, completed in 544.

De Consulatu Stilichonis

De Consulatu Stilichonis ("On the Consulship of Stilicho") is a three-book Latin epic panegyric by Claudian, court poet to Honorius, celebrating Stilicho's consulship in AD 400; the third book describes his arrival in Rome.

De contemptu mundi

De contemptu mundi ("On the contempt of the world") is a Latin satirical poem in three books written around 1144 by Bernard of Cluny, a monk of Cluny whose work inspired hymns like "Jerusalem the Golden".

De excidio Troiae historia

De excidio Troiae historia, a Latin prose account of the Trojan War attributed to the eyewitness Dares Phrygius, was actually composed around the fifth or sixth century CE.

De la costilla de Eva

De la costilla de Eva ("From Eve's Rib") is a 1986 poetry collection by Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, combining feminist erotic verse with Contra War poems.

De los nombres de Cristo

De los nombres de Cristo is a 1583 prose dialogue by the Spanish friar Luis de León in which three religious discuss the names of Christ in Scripture.

De mulieribus claris

De mulieribus claris, also cited as De claris mulieribus, is a Latin collection of about 104 biographies of famous women by Giovanni Boccaccio, begun around 1360 and the first such collection devoted exclusively to women.