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Sad Toys
Sad Toys (Kanashiki gugu; 悲しき玩具) is the second tanka collection of Japanese poet Ishikawa Takuboku, published posthumously in 1912 with 194 poems and two essays.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (サダコと千羽鶴) is Eleanor Coerr's 1977 children's novel about Sadako Sasaki, a Hiroshima bombing survivor who died of leukemia at 12 while folding paper cranes for peace.
Saddharmalankaraya
Saddharmalankaraya (සද්ධර්මාලංකාරය, "Ornament of the Good Law") is a 14th-century Sinhala Buddhist prose work compiled by the monk Jayabahu Dharmakirti during the Gampola period of Sri Lanka.
Saddharmaratnakaraya
Saddharmaratnakaraya is a Sinhala-language Buddhist dharma work composed by Vimalakirti Maha Swami, distinct from the similarly named Saddharmaratnavaliya; a 1923 printing survives, digitized on Tipitaka.lk.
Saduktikarnamrita
The Saduktikarnamrita (सदुक्तिकर्णामृत, "nectar to the ears of good sayings") is a Sanskrit verse anthology compiled by Śrīdharadāsa in 1205 CE, collecting about 2,377 verses by 446 poets.
Saekano
Saekano (Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, 冴えない彼女の育てかた) is Fumiaki Maruto and Kurehito Misaki's 13-volume light novel series (2012, Fujimi Fantasia Bunko), adapted into two A-1 Pictures anime seasons (2015, 2017) and CloverWorks' 2019 finale film.
Safahat
Safahat is the collective title of the seven volumes of poetry by Mehmet Akif Ersoy, author of Turkey's national anthem, published between 1911 and 1933.
Safar Dar Safar
Safar Dar Safar (سفر در سفر, "Journey within Journey") is a 1981 Urdu travelogue by Pakistani writer Ashfaq Ahmed, recounting a journey from Lahore to Kaghan and blending travel narrative with Sufism.
Safarnama
Safarnama (سفرنامه), also called Siyahat-nameh-ye Nasir Khusraw, is a Persian travelogue by the poet Nasir Khusraw, recording his seven-year journey through Iran, Arabia, and Egypt.
Safarnama-yi Ibrahim Beyg
Safarnama-yi Ibrahim Beyg, also Siyahatnameh-ye Ebrahim Beg, is a three-volume fictional travelogue satirizing Qajar Iran, written by Zayn ol-Abedin Maraghe'i and published abroad in the 1890s and 1900s.
Safe Conduct
Safe Conduct (Okhrannaia gramota, also rendered The Preservation Certificate) is an autobiographical book by the Russian poet Boris Pasternak on how he became a poet, written 1927–1931.
Saga (comics)
Saga is an epic space opera/fantasy comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, published by Image Comics from March 2012, following lovers Alana and Marko fleeing a galactic war with their daughter Hazel, the narrator.
Sagarana
Sagarana is a 1946 short-story collection by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa, nine stories set in the interior of Minas Gerais that renewed regionalist fiction with an innovative, heavily worked language.
Sagas of Icelanders
Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also called Icelandic family sagas: about forty medieval Icelandic prose narratives, written in the 13th–14th centuries but set c. 870–1030, depicting settlement, feud, and family history in the Icelandic Commonwealth.
Sahadeva (सहदेव)
Sahadeva (सहदेव), youngest Pandava twin of Nakula in the Mahabharata, born to Madri through the Ashvins; wisest brother, astrologer bound by a curse of silence, conqueror of the south, killer of Shakuni, and name of three other epic figures.
Sahasa Bhima Vijaya
Gadayuddha (ಗದಾಯುದ್ಧ; "The Duel of the Maces"), also titled Sahasabhima-vijaya, is a Kannada court epic by the Jain poet Ranna telling of Bhima's final mace duel with Duryodhana.
Sahitya Akademi Award
Sahitya Akademi Award (साहित्य अकादमी पुरस्कार): annual Indian literary prize by the Sahitya Akademi for the best book in each of 24 languages; instituted 1954, first given 1955, Rs 1 lakh plus copper plaque and shawl.
Sahitya Lahari
Sahitya Lahari is a short Braj Bhasha poem-cycle of 118 padas attributed to Surdas, traditionally the third of his major works after the Sursagar and Sursaravali.
Saif-ul-Maluk
Saif-ul-Maluk (سیف الملوک), also known as Safar-ul-Ishq, is a Punjabi Sufi masnavi by Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (1830–1907) recounting Prince Saif-ul-Maluk's quest for the fairy Badi-ul-Jamal, read as an allegory of the soul's pursuit of Divine Truth.
Saikano (最終兵器彼女)
Saikano (最終兵器彼女, Saishū Heiki Kanojo; She, the Ultimate Weapon) is Shin Takahashi's seinen war-romance manga serialized in Big Comic Spirits, 7 volumes, about high-schooler Chise weaponized by the JSDF, adapted as a 2002 GONZO anime and 2006 live-action film.
Sailing to Byzantium
Sailing to Byzantium, W. B. Yeats's 1926 ottava rima poem first published in October Blast (1927) and opening The Tower (1928), follows an aging speaker's imagined journey to Byzantium, symbol of art, religion, and eternity, source of the line "That is no country for old men."
Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Pretty Soldier/Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) is Naoko Takeuchi's shōjo manga serialized in Nakayoshi from 1992 to 1997, adapted by Toei into an anime from March 1992, about Usagi Tsukino, guardian of love and justice.
Saint of Killers
The Saint of Killers is a fictional gunslinger in the comic book series Preacher, created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and first published by DC in 1995.
Sakarya Türküsü
"Sakarya Türküsü" is a 1949 poem by Turkish poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek that treats the Sakarya river as a symbol of the Turkish nation's destiny.
Sakshatkar
Sakshatkar (साक्षात्कार) is a Hindi title associated with the poet Nagarjun, a Hindi and Maithili writer called Janakavi, the People's Poet, and a modern Kabir, who died in 1998.
Salad Anniversary
Salad Anniversary (サラダ記念日, Sarada Kinenbi) is a tanka collection by Tawara Machi, published in May 1987. It topped the 1987 bestseller list, revitalizing modern Japanese poetry.
Salah Asuhan
Salah Asuhan is an Indonesian novel by Abdoel Moeis, first published in 1928 by Balai Poestaka and long part of the modern Indonesian literary canon.
Salalihini Sandesha
Salalihini Sandesha (සැළලිහිණි සන්දේසය, also rendered Selalihini Sandeshaya, "The Starling's Message") is a fifteenth-century Sinhala messenger poem in 111 quatrains by the monk Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera, composed around 1450.
Salaman and Absal
Salaman and Absal (سلامان و ابسال) is an allegorical Persian masnavi that Abd al-Rahman Jami composed in 1480, telling of a prince's love for his wet-nurse Absal.
Salammbô
Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in Paris in 1862 and set in ancient Carthage during the Mercenary War that followed the First Punic War.