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Denethor
Denethor II is the last Ruling Steward of Gondor in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, father of Boromir and Faramir, who despairs and burns himself during the siege of Minas Tirith.
Deng Tuzi the Lecher
Deng Tuzi the Lecher (登徒子) is a fictional courtier in a fu poem attributed to the Warring States poet Song Yu, now a Chinese byword for a lecher.
Dengeki Novel Prize (電撃小説大賞)
The Dengeki Novel Prize (電撃小説大賞) is an annual Japanese literary award founded in 1994 by ASCII Media Works to scout unpublished novels for its Dengeki Bunko light-novel line.
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics)
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) is Hank Ketcham's syndicated newspaper panel, debuted March 12, 1951, about five-and-a-half-year-old Dennis Mitchell; distinct from the unrelated British Beano character of the same name.
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (originally Dennis the Menace) is a long-running British comic strip in The Beano, created by David Law, debuting March 1951; the dog Gnasher joined in 1968, distinct from the coincidental American Dennis the Menace.
Deor
Deor, also called The Lament of Deor, is a 42-line Old English poem in the 10th-century Exeter Book, in which a displaced poet consoles himself with the refrain "that passed away, so may this".
Departure(s)
Departure(s) is Julian Barnes's 2026 novel, announced as his final book: an autofiction in which narrator Julian recounts twice matchmaking his friends Stephen and Jean, 40 years apart, mixed with memoir of memory, illness, and aging.
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen
Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, originally known as the Ackermannbüchlein, is an early 15th-century German prose dialogue by Johannes von Tepl in which a widower accuses Death of taking his wife.
Der Knabe im Moor
"Der Knabe im Moor" ("The Boy in the Moor") is an 1842 German ballad by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff about a boy's ghost-haunted crossing of a Westphalian bog.
Der Meridian
Der Meridian is the acceptance speech Paul Celan delivered in Darmstadt in October 1960 on receiving the Georg Büchner Prize, a foundational text of twentieth-century poetics.
Der Messias
Der Messias (The Messiah) is a German religious epic in 20 cantos by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, retelling the Passion and resurrection of Jesus in dactylic hexameters.
Der Rosengarten zu Worms
Der Rosengarten zu Worms, also called Der Große Rosengarten, is an anonymous 13th-century Middle High German heroic poem about twelve combats in Kriemhild's rose garden.
Der Untergang der Titanic
Der Untergang der Titanic is an epic poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, published in 1978, retelling the 1912 sinking of the Titanic in 33 cantos.
Der Welsche Gast
Der Welsche Gast ("The Romance Stranger") is a roughly 15,000-line didactic poem in Middle High German, composed in 1215/16 by Thomasin von Zerclaere as the first German code of conduct.
Derniers vers
Derniers vers (Last Verses) is a posthumous 1890 collection of poems by the French writer Jules Laforgue, generally regarded as the first full-length volume of free verse in French poetry.
Derry (Stephen King)
Derry is Stephen King's fictional Maine town, based on Bangor, first appearing in a 1981 short story and famous as the setting of It (1986), where Pennywise attacks every 27 years; also featured in Insomnia, 11/22/63, and HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry.
Deru Campur Debu
Deru Campur Debu is a 1949 poetry collection by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, published the year of his death and foundational to modern Indonesian poetry.
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (昭和元禄落語心中) is Haruko Kumota's ten-volume manga about rakugo performers across the Shōwa era, serialized in Itan 2010–2016, adapted into OVAs, two anime seasons, a live-action series, and a Grand Prize musical.
Descriptio Moldaviae
Descriptio Moldaviae, in Romanian Descrierea Moldovei, is a Latin encyclopedic monograph on the principality of Moldavia, written by Dimitrie Cantemir from 1714 to 1716 at the Berlin Academy's request.
Description of Greece
The Description of Greece (Greek: Hellados Periegesis) is a ten-book travel guide by the Greek geographer Pausanias, describing the monuments, sanctuaries, and legends of mainland Greece in the second century CE.
Desdemona
Desdemona, Brabantio's daughter and Othello's wife in Shakespeare's tragedy, from Cinthio's Disdemona through textual history, criticism, Verdi's Otello, and modern stagings.
Desiderata
Desiderata, Latin for "things desired," is a 1927 prose poem by Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana, famous for a false 1692 church attribution, Adlai Stevenson's deathbed copy, and Les Crane's 1971 Grammy-winning recording.
Desolación
Desolación is the first book of the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, a collection of poems and prose published in New York by Columbia University's Instituto de las Españas in 1922.
Desolation Island (novel)
Desolation Island (1979) is Patrick O'Brian's fifth Aubrey/Maturin naval novel: Jack Aubrey sails HMS Leopard with convicts and the spy Mrs Wogan to Australia, pursued by the Dutch Waakzaamheid into Antarctic waters.
Desperation (novel)
Desperation is Stephen King's 1996 horror novel (Viking) about travelers trapped by the possessed officer Collie Entragian in a Nevada mining town menaced by the entity Tak, published the same day as its mirror novel The Regulators under King's Bachman pseudonym.
Dessan
Dessan (also spelled destan or dastan) is an epic genre of Turkmen literature, known since the 18th century, that combines fairy tales, folk legends, and love or heroic material.
Destan
Destan is a long versified narrative in Turkish literature that recounts historical and social events through heroes' extraordinary adventures, traditionally performed with melody before an audience.
Det
Det is a long poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, published in 1969 and widely regarded as her breakthrough and a central work of Danish system poetry.
Detective fiction
Detective fiction, also called detective stories or detective literature: narratives centered on a detective solving a crime by ratiocination, from Poe's Dupin and Sherlock Holmes to Golden Age whodunits, hardboiled fiction, and police procedurals.
Detectives These Days Are Crazy!
Detectives These Days Are Crazy! (まったく最近の探偵ときたら, Mattaku Saikin no Tantei to Kitara) is Masakuni Igarashi's comedy-mystery manga in Dengeki Maoh since 2016 and a 2025 LIDENFILMS anime about washed-up detective Nagumo and assistant Mashiro.