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Salem Saberhagen
Salem Saberhagen is the talking black cat familiar of Sabrina Spellman in Archie Comics and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. A warlock sentenced to 100 years as a cat for world domination; created by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo, voiced by Nick Bakay.
Sally Bowles
Sally Bowles is the fictional English cabaret singer created by Christopher Isherwood in Goodbye to Berlin (1939), modeled on Jean Ross, and the central figure of I Am a Camera and the musical and film Cabaret, played by Julie Harris, Jill Haworth, Liza Minnelli, and Judi Dench.
Salt of the Forest
Salt of the Forest (Muối của rừng) is a 1986 short story by Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Huy Thiệp, following an old hunter who rescues the monkey he wounds.
Saltuknâme
Saltuknâme is an Ottoman prose epic and hagiography recounting the legendary life, wars, and miracles of the dervish-warrior Sarı Saltuk, compiled by Ebülhayr-i Rûmî at Prince Cem's request around 1480.
Salvo el crepúsculo
Salvo el crepúsculo is the final poetry collection of the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, an anthology of 132 poems from forty years of verse, published in Mexico in 1984.
Salvor Hardin
Salvor Hardin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. He served as the first Mayor of Terminus, resolving the Seldon Crises by establishing a religion of science.
Sam Kok
Sam Kok (สามก๊ก, "Three Kingdoms") is the classic Thai translation of the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, commissioned by King Rama I and completed around 1802.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is the San Francisco private detective Dashiell Hammett created in The Maltese Falcon (1930), played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film and by Clive Owen in Monsieur Spade.
Sam Vimes
Sam Vimes is Terry Pratchett's Discworld City Watch commander, protagonist of the Watch novels from Guards! Guards! (1989) to Snuff (2011), famous for the Boots Theory of socio-economic unfairness.
Samak-e Ayyar
Samak-e Ayyar (سمک عیار), also romanized Samak-i ʿAyyār, is the oldest extant Persian popular prose romance, compiled in the 12th century and telling of the ayyar Samak and prince Khurshid-shah.
Saman
Saman is Ayu Utami's debut Indonesian novel, published April 1998 by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, days before Soeharto's fall. It follows four women and an ex-priest, won the Jakarta Arts Council novel contest, and sparked the sastra wangi movement.
Samaraichchakaha
Samaraichchakaha (Samarāiccakahā, also called Samarādityakathā) is a Jain religious narrative in Prakrit prose composed by the Śvetāmbara monk Haribhadra Sūri in the late 8th century, following king Samarāditya of Ujjain and Agniśarmā through nine births.
Samay Sargam
Samay Sargam (समय सरगम, "The Music of Time") is a 2000 Hindi novel by Krishna Sobti following two elderly neighbors in Delhi who build a late-life friendship, awarded the Vyas Samman in 2007.
Samiingok
Samiingok (사미인곡, 思美人曲) is a 1588 Korean gasa poem by the scholar-official Jeong Cheol, written in exile at Changpyeong and counted among the genre's highest achievements.
Samson Agonistes (Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής)
Samson Agonistes (Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής), Milton's 1671 closet tragedy published with Paradise Regained, retells Judges 13–16 in Greek tragic form with a chorus, blind Samson in Gaza, and no stage performance until Poel's 1900 production.
Samutthakhot Kham Chan
Samutthakhot Kham Chan (สมุทรโฆษคำฉันท์) is a Thai narrative poem telling the adventures of Prince Samutthakhot and Pintumat, begun under King Narai and completed by Paramanuchit Chinorot about 160 years later.
Samvel
Samvel (Armenian: Սամվել) is an 1886 historical novel by the Armenian writer Raffi, set in fourth-century Armenia torn between Persia and Byzantium and regarded as the peak of Armenian historical fiction.
Samwell Tarly
Samwell Tarly (Sam) is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by John Bradley. Eldest son of Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill, Night's Watch steward, killer of an Other with dragonglass, and Citadel novice sent by Jon Snow to become Maester Aemon's successor.
Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee is Frodo Baggins's gardener and loyal companion in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the only Fellowship member to reach Mount Doom and back, later Mayor of the Shire, and Tolkien's stated 'chief hero'.
Samyukta (संयुक्ता)
Samyukta, also known as Sanyogita or Samyogita, is the princess of Kannauj whom the bardic epic Prithviraj Raso presents as King Jaichand's daughter, won by Prithviraj Chauhan at her swayamvara.
Sanbao Taijian Xiyang Ji
Sanbao Taijian Xiyang Ji (三寶太監西洋記), also titled Sanbao Taijian Xiyang Ji Tongsu Yanyi and abbreviated Xiyang Ji, is a 1597 Ming shenmo novel attributed to Luo Maodeng that retells Zheng He's maritime expeditions as demon-quelling fantasy.
Sanchayita
Sanchayita (সঞ্চয়িতা) is a 1931 self-edited anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali poetry, containing nearly 400 poems he chose across his career; it remains the standard single-volume selection and is often confused with Kazi Nazrul Islam's Sanchita.
Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza is the peasant who serves as squire to Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes's novel Don Quixote (1605, 1615), a squat, practical contrast to his idealistic master.
Sand and Foam
Sand and Foam (رمل وزبد) is a 1926 book of aphorisms by the Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran, gathering several hundred sayings on love, life, death, and beauty.
Sandalwood Death
Sandalwood Death (檀香刑) is a 2001 historical novel by the Chinese writer Mo Yan, recounting an execution in German-occupied Shandong at the end of the Qing dynasty.
Sandhya Sangit
Sandhya Sangit (সন্ধ্যাসঙ্গীত, "Evening Songs") is an early Bengali lyric collection by Rabindranath Tagore, published in Kolkata in 1882 and regarded as his first book.
Sanditon
Sanditon is Jane Austen's unfinished final novel, an untitled ~24,000-word draft written January–March 1817, satirizing seaside resorts, health fads, and property speculation; first published 1925, held at King's College Cambridge.
Sandor Clegane
Sandor Clegane, called the Hound, is a warrior in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones: Gregor Clegane's burned younger brother, Joffrey Baratheon's sworn shield, Arya Stark's captor, and a Quiet Isle gravedigger in the books but dead in the show, played by Rory McCann.
Sandro of Chegem
Sandro of Chegem (Сандро из Чегема) is a picaresque novel in 32 novellas by Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander, set in the village of Chegem in Abkhazia.
Sandworm (Dune)
Sandworm (Shai-Hulud), the fictional giant desert creature of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune on planet Arrakis; its sandtrout larva and lifecycle produce the spice melange; film worms 400 m long; scientists say giant worms are implausible.