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Digte
Digte (Danish for "poems") is the body of lyric poetry by Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Denmark's leading eighteenth-century lyricist, whose "Kong Christian stod ved højen Mast" (1779) became one of Denmark's two national songs.
Dil-o-Danish
Dil-o-Danish (दिलो-दानिश) is a 1993 Hindi novel by Krishna Sobti, portraying a feudal Delhi haveli in the 1920s and translated into English as The Heart Has Its Reasons.
Dime novel
The dime novel, also known as the dime store novel, was inexpensive American popular fiction first issued by Beadle and Adams in 1860, best known for Wild West tales.
Diné Bahaneʼ
Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo for "Story of the People") is the creation narrative of the Diné (Navajo) people, describing their emergence from lower worlds into the present Glittering World.
Ding'an Shiwen Ji
Ding'an Shiwen Ji (定盦文集, Collected Works of Ding'an) is the collected prose and poetry of Qing thinker Gong Zizhen (1792–1841), first self-carved in 1823 and repeatedly expanded after his death.
Dinotopia
Dinotopia is James Gurney's illustrated fantasy series, beginning with A Land Apart from Time (1992), about an 1862 shipwrecked father and son on an island where humans and sentient dinosaurs coexist; it spawned sequels, novels, a 2002 ABC miniseries, and games.
Diogenes Club
Diogenes Club: fictional silent London gentlemen's club in Conan Doyle's "The Greek Interpreter" (1893), founded by Mycroft Holmes; no talking except the Stranger's Room; subject of real-club identification debates and real-life namesake societies.
Dionysiaca
The Dionysiaca (Διονυσιακά) is a fifth-century Greek epic in 48 books by Nonnus of Panopolis recounting the life, Indian war, and deification of Dionysus; at over 21,000 lines it is the longest extant ancient epic.
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan is a posthumous Copper Canyon Press collection gathering work from her ten poetry volumes plus unpublished last poems.
Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently, the "holistic detective" created by Douglas Adams, stars in the 1987 novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, its 1988 sequel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt, BBC Four and BBC America/Netflix TV adaptations, and IDW comics.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is Douglas Adams' 1987 comic novel about a "holistic" detective, real name Svlad Cjelli, who solves a murder, a ghost, and time travel via the fundamental interconnectedness of all things; adapted for radio, BBC Four, BBC America, stage, and IDW comics.
Dirk Pitt
Dirk Pitt, hero of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt Adventures, is a fictional NUMA marine adventurer first published in The Mediterranean Caper (1973); Pacific Vortex! was written first, and the series spans 28 novels with film adaptations of Raise the Titanic! and Sahara.
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア)
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア) is Haruka Takachiho's SF action series about WWWA trouble consultants Kei and Yuri, the Lovely Angels nicknamed Dirty Pair for the disasters they cause. Debuting in S-F Magazine in 1979, it won a Seiun Award and was adapted by Sunrise into a 1985 TV anime, OVAs, and a 1987 film.
Dirty realism
Dirty realism is a term for spare, unsentimental American short fiction of the late 1970s and 1980s, named in 1983 by Granta editor Bill Buford.
Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism (Discours sur le colonialisme) is a 1950 pamphlet by Aimé Césaire arguing that colonialism dehumanizes the colonizer, and calling Nazism colonial methods turned on Europe.
Discusión
Discusión is a collection of essays by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Buenos Aires in 1932 and expanded in 1957 as volume six of his Obras completas.
Discworld
Discworld is Terry Pratchett's 41-novel comic fantasy series (1983-2015), set on a flat world carried by four elephants on a giant star turtle, featuring Death, Granny Weatherwax, and Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork.
Discworld (world)
Discworld is Terry Pratchett's fictional flat world carried by four elephants on the star turtle Great A'Tuin, setting of 41 satirical fantasy novels (1983-2015) run on magic and narrativium.
Disgrace
Disgrace (1999) is J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel about David Lurie, a disgraced Cape Town professor, and his daughter Lucy on an Eastern Cape farm in post-apartheid South Africa; not the Finnish death metal band, the play Disgraced, or Robin Patchen's novel.
Disney Fairies
Disney Fairies is Disney's multimedia franchise around Tinker Bell and the Never Fairies of Pixie Hollow, launched September 2005 with Gail Carson Levine's novel, spanning chapter books, the 2008-2014 DisneyToon animated films, the Pixie Hollow virtual world, and the revived Wings of Pixie Hollow novel series.
District Routine
District Routine (Rayonnye budni) is a cycle of five linked essays by the Soviet writer Valentin Ovechkin, published in Novy Mir from 1952 to 1956.
Diu Crône
Diu Crône ("The Crown") is a Middle High German Arthurian romance of about 30,000 lines by Heinrich von dem Türlin, in which Gawain wins the Grail.
Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr
The Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (دیوان ابوسعید ابوالخیر) is a collection of Persian mystical quatrains attributed to the Khorasani Sufi master Abu Sa'id (967–1049).
Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani
The Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani is the collected Persian poetry of the Qajar court poet Adib al-Mamalik Farahani, about 22,000 couplets, first printed in 1933.
Divan of Ahmad Shamlu
The Divan of Ahmad Shamlu (دیوان احمد شاملو) is the collected poetry of Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000), pioneer of meterless Persian free verse, written from 1947 to 2000.
Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i
The Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i is the lyric poetry collections of Alisher Navoi (1441–1501), the Chagatai Turkic poet of the Timurid court in Herat, in Turkic and Persian.
Divan of Alisher Navoi
The Divan of Alisher Navoi is the collected lyric poetry of Navoi (1441–1501), the Timurid statesman of Herat regarded as the founder of classical Chagatai literature.
Divan of Amir Khusrau
The Divan of Amir Khusrau (ديوان امير حسرو) is the five collections of lyric poetry that the Indo-Persian poet Amir Khusrau Dehlavi assembled during his lifetime.
Divan of Anvari
The Divan of Anvari (دیوان انوری) is the collected poetical works of Awhad al-Din Anvari of Abivard, the leading Persian panegyrist of the 12th-century Saljuq court.
Divan of Attar
The Divan of Attar (دیوان عطار) is the collected lyric poetry of the Persian Sufi poet Farid-al-Din Attar of Nishapur, comprising ghazals, qasidas, and tarji'-bands, assembled by the poet himself.