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Duck family (Disney)
The Duck family is a fictional family of Disney cartoon ducks related to Donald Duck, centered in comics, with Huey, Dewey, and Louie and Scrooge McDuck.
Dugu Pian
Dugu Pian, or Dugu bujian, is a seven-character regulated poem (qilü) by the early Tang poet Shen Quanqi, portraying a Chang'an wife whose husband has been garrisoned at Liaoyang for ten years.
Duino Elegies
The Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) are a cycle of ten elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, begun in 1912 at Duino castle and completed in 1922.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, from Horace's Odes 3.2.13 (23 BC), means 'it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country'; it appears on war memorials and was rejected as 'the old Lie' in Wilfred Owen's World War I poem.
Đulići
Đulići (Ђулићи, "little roses") is a cycle of love poems by the Serbian poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, written for his wife Ruža and published in Novi Sad in 1864.
Duncan Idaho
Duncan Idaho, Frank Herbert's Dune saga character: Atreides Ginaz Swordmaster who dies in Dune (1965) and returns across all six novels as Tleilaxu gholas, first as Hayt, later God Emperor's commander; played by Jason Momoa in Villeneuve's films.
Dune (video game)
Dune (Cryo Interactive, 1992, Virgin Games) is a hybrid adventure-strategy game based on Herbert's novel and Lynch's film, nearly canceled in 1990, released May 1992 before Westwood's unrelated Dune II.
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Harkonnen (2000) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson is the second novel of the House prequel trilogy to Frank Herbert's Dune, covering Leto Atreides, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Jessica, Gurney Halleck, and Duncan Idaho before the original novel.
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002), by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, is the first Legends of Dune prequel novel, dramatizing the war against thinking machines ten millennia before Frank Herbert's Dune and the origins of the Bene Gesserit, Mentats, and Fremen.
Dúnedain
The Dúnedain (singular Dúnadan, meaning "Men of the West") are a fictional people in Tolkien's Middle-earth, descendants of the Edain who were granted the island of Númenor.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Dungeon Crawler Carl is a LitRPG science fantasy series by Matt Dinniman about a man and his cat surviving a deadly dungeon aired as an alien reality show.
Dunhuang quzi ci
Dunhuang quzi ci (敦煌曲子詞) are a corpus of Chinese song lyrics preserved in Tang, Five Dynasties, and early Song manuscripts from the Mogao Grottoes library cave, precursors of Song ci.
Dunia Ulimwengu
Dunia Ulimwengu, short for Dunia uwanja wa fujo ("The World Is an Arena of Chaos"), is a 1975 Swahili novel by Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi.
Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı
Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı is a 1959 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Turgut Uyar, where he abandoned his early socially themed verse and helped pioneer the İkinci Yeni movement.
Durarara!! (デュラララ!!)
Durarara!! (デュラララ!!) is Ryohgo Narita's Ikebukuro-set light novel series with Suzuhito Yasuda illustrations, published by Dengeki Bunko since 2004 in 13 volumes plus SH, with manga and 2010 and 2015-16 anime adaptations.
Duravastha
Duravastha ("Misery") is a Malayalam khanda kavya by N. Kumaranasan, published in September 1922, set during the 1921 Malabar Rebellion, whose union of a Brahmin woman and a Pulaya man attacks the caste system.
Durendal
Durendal (Durandal, Durlindana), the legendary sword of Count Roland in the Song of Roland, first attested ca. 1100; famed as unbreakable, given Muslim-owner pre-histories in Aspremont and Mainet, with debated etymology.
Durgeshnandini
Durgeshnandini (দুর্গেশনন্দিনী) is an 1865 Bengali historical romance novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, set during Pathan-Mughal conflicts under Akbar and widely regarded as the first successful Bengali novel.
Duryodhan Vadh
Duryodhan Vadh (दुर्योधन वध) is the climactic episode of the Mahabharata war in which Bhima kills Duryodhana in a mace duel on the eighteenth day.
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन)
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन), also called Suyodhana, eldest of the hundred Kaurava sons of Dhritarashtra in the Mahabharata; his jealousy, the dice game, and refusal of land cause the Kurukshetra War, ending in his mace duel with Bhima.
Dushyanta
Dushyanta (Duṣmanta, दुष्मन्त), Puru-dynasty king of the Mahabharata, husband of Shakuntala (शकुन्तला), father of Bharata; epic gandharva marriage retold with curse and ring in Kalidasa's play.
Dusk of Dawn
Dusk of Dawn is a 1940 autobiography by W. E. B. Du Bois that traces the history of the race concept through his own life.
Dust (His Dark Materials)
Dust, also known as Rusakov particles and dark matter, is a fictional substance in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. It is an invisible matter that gathers around conscious beings.
Dutch colonial novel
The Dutch colonial novel (Indische roman) is Dutch-language fiction about the Netherlands' overseas colonies, above all the Dutch East Indies, founded by Multatuli's Max Havelaar (1860).
Dutch psychological novel
The Dutch psychological novel (psychologische roman) is a subgenre of the novel in Dutch literature that centers on characters' thoughts, feelings, and motives, central since the late nineteenth century.
Düvaz
Düvaz, also known as düvaz-ı imam, is a genre of Alevi-Bektashi religious poetry naming the Twelve Imams in order and praising their virtues, recited in the cem ritual.
Dying Earth
Dying Earth: Jack Vance's four-book far-future fantasy sequence (The Dying Earth 1950 to Rhialto the Marvellous 1984) and the eponymous dying-sun subgenre it named, source of D&D's Vancian magic.
Dylan Dog
Dylan Dog (L'Indagatore dell'Incubo) is an Italian monthly horror comic created by Tiziano Sclavi in 1986 for Sergio Bonelli Editore, about a London paranormal detective modeled on Rupert Everett; second-best-selling Italian comic after Tex, peaking near 530,000 copies monthly.
Dyskolos
Dyskolos (Δύσκολος, often translated The Grouch) is a comedy by the Athenian playwright Menander, first performed in Athens in 316 BC and his only surviving complete play.
Dystopia
Dystopia (also anti-utopia, cacotopia): an imagined oppressive society and the literary genre depicting it, coined by John Stuart Mill in 1868 as the antonym of More's utopia; classics include We, Brave New World, and Nineteen Eighty-Four.