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El general en su laberinto
El general en su laberinto (The General in His Labyrinth) is a 1989 historical novel by Gabriel García Márquez narrating Simón Bolívar's final journey down the Magdalena River.
El hacedor
El hacedor ("The Maker") is a 1960 collection by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges that mixes poems, prose pieces, and parables, including "Borges y yo".
El idioma de los argentinos
El idioma de los argentinos is a 1928 essay collection by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, asking whether the spoken language of Buenos Aires can constitute a national language.
El limonero real
El limonero real is a 1974 novel by the Argentine writer Juan José Saer, following peasant Wenceslao and his family through a single day, the last of the year.
El lugar sin límites
El lugar sin límites is a 1966 novel by Chilean writer José Donoso, set around a rural brothel and counted among the landmarks of the Latin American Boom.
El matadero
El matadero is a short story by Esteban Echeverría, written around 1838–1840 under Rosas and published posthumously in 1871, often called the first work of Argentine fiction.
El mono gramático
El mono gramático (The Monkey Grammarian) is a 1974 book of poetic prose by Mexican writer Octavio Paz, recounting a walk to Galta, near Jaipur, India.
El otro, el mismo
El otro, el mismo is a 1964 poetry collection by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, gathering his El hacedor poems with fifty-seven new ones.
El país de las últimas cosas
El país de las últimas cosas, titled In the Country of Last Things in English, is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic 1987 novel by the American writer Paul Auster.
El payador
El payador is a 1916 essay by Leopoldo Lugones, based on six 1913 lectures in Buenos Aires, that establishes Martín Fierro as Argentina's national poem.
El peregrino indiano
El peregrino indiano is an epic poem by Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán, printed in Madrid in 1599, narrating Cortés's conquest of Mexico from Cuba to the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
El pozo
El pozo ("The Well") is a 1939 short novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, often called the first modern novel of Latin America and the start of his Santa María cycle.
El rayo que no cesa
El rayo que no cesa ("The Lightning That Does Not Cease") is a 1936 book of thirty love poems, mostly sonnets, by the Spanish poet Miguel Hernández.
El santo de la espada
El santo de la espada is a 1933 biography of José de San Martín by Ricardo Rojas, published in Buenos Aires, that shaped San Martín's cult as Father of the Fatherland.
El Séptimo Círculo
El Séptimo Círculo was an Argentine crime fiction collection published in Buenos Aires by Emecé from 1945, directed at first by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.
El silencio de la luna
El silencio de la luna is a 1994 poetry collection by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, gathering poems from 1985 to 1993 and winning Colombia's José Asunción Silva prize in 1996.
El sueño de los héroes
El sueño de los héroes (The Dream of Heroes) is a 1954 novel by the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, the third of his five novels and the one critics most often call his best.
El viaje a Nicaragua
El viaje a Nicaragua, full title El viaje a Nicaragua e Intermezzo tropical, is a 1909 travel book by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío about his return home after fifteen years abroad.
Elantris
Elantris is Brandon Sanderson's 2005 debut fantasy novel from Tor Books, set on the Cosmere planet Sel, about Prince Raoden, Princess Sarene, and priest Hrathen amid the fallen city of Elantris and its broken AonDor magic.
Elder Race (novella)
Elder Race is a 2021 science fantasy novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor.com), told in alternating fantasy and science-fiction perspectives of princess Lynesse and anthropologist Nyr Illim Tevitch on Sophos 4; 2022 Hugo Best Novella finalist, second place.
Elders of the Universe
Elders of the Universe: Marvel Comics group of virtually immortal cosmic beings, each the last survivor of an ancient species bonded by the Power Primordial; includes the Collector and Grandmaster, first group appearance Avengers #174 (1978).
Eldest
Eldest (2005) is Christopher Paolini's second Inheritance Cycle novel, published by Knopf; it follows Eragon's Rider training in Ellesméra and cousin Roran's flight from Carvahall, and became Random House Children's Books' fastest-selling title at the time.
Eleanor & Park
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell's 2013 YA debut novel, follows two misfit teens in 1986 Omaha who fall in love over comics and mixtapes; a Printz Honor book, Boston Globe–Horn Award winner, and ALA Top Ten challenged book.
Eleceed (일렉시드)
Eleceed (일렉시드) is a South Korean action-fantasy webtoon by writer Jeho Son (Noblesse) and artist ZHENA (Girls of the Wild's), serialized on Naver Webtoon/WEBTOON since 2018. It follows Jiwoo Seo and Kayden, an Awakened being trapped in a cat's body; over 1.4 billion views, 10 languages, anime by DandeLion Animation Studio premiering April 2027.
Elective Affinities
Elective Affinities, or Die Wahlverwandtschaften, is a novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, his third, published in 1809, in which a married couple and two guests form new attachments.
Elegies of Propertius
The Elegies of Propertius are four books of Latin elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius (ca 50–16 BC), the first three dominated by his love for Cynthia.
Elegies of Theognis
The Elegies of Theognis, also called the Theognidea, are a corpus of roughly 1,389 ancient Greek elegiac verses attributed to Theognis of Megara of the sixth century BCE.
Elegy
Elegy: poetic form with a double meaning, ancient Greek elegiac couplet (hexameter plus pentameter) for any subject, and modern poem of mourning; also Persian marṯīa, defined by lament, praise, consolation stages.
Elegy for a Polish Boy
"Elegy for a Polish Boy" (Elegia o... [chłopcu polskim]) is a 1944 war poem by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, written as a mother's farewell to her soldier son.
Elegy of Fortinbras
Elegy of Fortinbras (Polish: Tren Fortynbrasa) is a 1957 poem by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert in which Fortinbras, who closes Shakespeare's Hamlet, delivers a monologue over the dead Hamlet.