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Dongguk Munheon Bigo
Dongguk Munheon Munheon Bigo (동국문헌비고) is an encyclopedic reference work on Korea's institutions, history, geography, and culture, compiled by the Joseon government and completed in 1770 under King Yeongjo.
Dongjing Meng Hua Lu
Dongjing Meng Hua Lu is a memoir completed in 1147 by the Song writer Meng Yuanlao, recording the streets, festivals, and daily life of the Northern Song capital Kaifeng.
Dongmen Xing
Dongmen Xing (東門行, "Song of the East Gate") is a Han dynasty yuefu folk song about a poor commoner driven by hunger to take up his sword.
Dongpo Yuefu
Dongpo Yuefu (东坡乐府, Dongpo Song Lyrics) is the collected ci poetry of Northern Song writer Su Shi, founding document of the bold and unconstrained school of Song lyrics.
Dongpo Zhilin
Dongpo Zhilin (东坡志林, "Records of Dongpo") is a collection of notes and essays by the Northern Song writer Su Shi, assembled from his manuscripts after his death.
Doom Patrol
The Doom Patrol is a DC Comics superhero team created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani, first appearing in My Greatest Adventure #80 (1963). Outcasts Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman, and the Chief died heroically in 1968, were revived, and were famously reinvented by Grant Morrison; adapted as a 2019-2023 TV series and relaunched in comics in 2026.
Doomsday Clock (comics)
Doomsday Clock is DC Comics' 12-issue 2017–2019 maxiseries by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, a Watchmen sequel crossing Doctor Manhattan, Rorschach, and Ozymandias into the DC Universe as the conclusion of Rebirth.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is the second poetry collection by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, published in 1969, whose closing poem "Bogland" opens his bog theme.
Doosra Saptak
Doosra Saptak (दूसरा सप्तक, "Second Septet") is a 1951 anthology of poems by seven Hindi poets, edited by Agyeya, whose introduction established the experimental movement Prayogvad.
Dopesick (book)
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America is Beth Macy's 2018 Little, Brown nonfiction book on the US opioid epidemic, centered on Appalachian Virginia and Purdue Pharma's OxyContin, adapted into Hulu's 2021 Peabody-winning series.
Dora Milaje
Dora Milaje ("Adored Ones") are Marvel Comics' all-female royal bodyguard corps of Wakanda, created by Christopher Priest in 1998's Black Panther #1, inspired by the Dahomey Amazons and prominent in the MCU films.
Doraemon (ドラえもん)
Doraemon (ドラえもん) is a Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio about a robot cat from the 22nd century who helps schoolboy Nobita with gadgets.
Dorian Gray (character)
Dorian Gray, protagonist of Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/1891), a beautiful young man whose hidden portrait ages and records his sins while he stays youthful; icon of decadence and eternal youth.
Dork Diaries
Dork Diaries is a middle-grade diary-format series by Rachel Renée Russell, illustrated by Nikki Russell, following Nikki Maxwell at Westchester Country Day; 16 books, 55 million copies, first published June 2009.
Dorothy Gale
Dorothy Gale is the Kansas farm girl heroine of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels; unnamed until Ozma of Oz (1907), silver shoes in the book, ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 MGM film, later resident of Ozma's court.
Dosan sibigok
Dosan sibigok (도산십이곡) is a set of twelve sijo poems written in 1565 by the Korean Neo-Confucian scholar Toegye Yi Hwang about his retreat at Dosan in Andong.
Double entendre
Double entendre: a word or phrase with two meanings, one usually risqué or sexual; a type of pun. From obsolete French, coined in English in the 1670s, attributed to Dryden's 1673 play Marriage a-la-Mode.
Doujin soft (同人ソフト)
Doujin soft (同人ソフト), also called doujin game, is self-published software within Japanese doujin culture, covering games and hardware, sold mainly at events like Comic Market.
Dover Beach
Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold's most celebrated lyric poem, published 1867 in New Poems but likely written around his 1851 honeymoon at Dover; four irregular stanzas mourning the retreating Sea of Faith and ending with the darkling plain image.
Dover Publications
Dover Publications (Dover Books), founded 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker, is an American paperback publisher of public-domain reprints and originals: Thrift Editions classics, math and science books, coloring books; Courier acquired it for $39M in 2000, later LSC Communications.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell's first book (1933), his first under that pseudonym, recounting poverty as a Paris plongeur and a London tramp; first published by Gollancz, 9 January 1933.
Down Second Avenue
Down Second Avenue is the 1959 autobiography of South African writer Es'kia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele, recounting his childhood in segregated South Africa; banned for protesting apartheid, it became a founding text of black South African autobiography.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)
Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde are the dual identities of the physician protagonist of Stevenson's 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, whose potion releases his repressed evil self, Hyde, until the transformation consumes him.
Dr. Watson
Dr. John H. Watson is the fictional physician, narrator, and biographer of Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet (1887); an Afghan War army surgeon who shares 221B Baker Street with Holmes.
Draco Malfoy
Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter's Slytherin school rival, only child of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. Raised at Malfoy Manor in pure-blood supremacy, later a reluctant Death Eater; adult life, Cursed Child father of Scorpius, and film, stage, and HBO portrayals.
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic novel by Bram Stoker about a Transylvanian count who moves to London and preys on the living, becoming the defining work of vampire fiction.
Dragon Raja (龙族) (Chinese novels)
Dragon Raja (龙族) is Jiangnan's (Yang Zhi's) Chinese fantasy novel series, serialized from 2009, following Lu Mingfei at Cassell College in a hidden human-dragon war; over 21 million copies sold, five parts, still unfinished.
Dragonar Academy (星刻のドラグナー)
Dragonar Academy (Seikoku no Dragonar) is a Japanese light novel series by Shiki Mizuchi, illustrated by Kohada Shimesaba, published in MF Bunko J from 2010; adapted into manga and a 2014 C-Station anime.
Dragonfly in Amber
Dragonfly in Amber is Diana Gabaldon's 1992 second Outlander novel, following Claire and Jamie Fraser from the court of Louis XV to Culloden, framed by a 1968 Inverness story with Brianna and Roger; adapted as Outlander season two.
Dragonlance
Dragonlance is a Dungeons & Dragons high fantasy campaign setting on the world of Krynn, created by Laura and Tracy Hickman with Margaret Weis for TSR in 1984, spanning the War of the Lance modules, nearly 200 novels, and recent revivals.