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Sefer HaYashar
Sefer HaYashar (Book of the Upright) is the title of several Hebrew works, including a lost biblical book and a medieval midrashic retelling of Genesis through Joshua.
Sei Samay
Sei Samay (সেই সময়, "Those Days") is a Bengali historical novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay, published in 1981, set in nineteenth-century Calcutta during the Bengal Renaissance.
Seiobo There Below
Seiobo There Below, also known as Seiobo járt odalent, is a 2008 novel by László Krasznahorkai. It features seventeen stories numbered by the Fibonacci sequence.
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (精霊幻想記)
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (精霊幻想記) is a Japanese isekai fantasy series by Yuri Kitayama, begun as a web novel in 2014, about an orphan who gains a Japanese student's memories, adapted into manga and anime.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day is a 1956 novella by Saul Bellow following failed actor Tommy Wilhelm through a single day of financial and spiritual reckoning in New York City.
Seken Munesan'yō
Seken Munesan'yō (世間胸算用), translated as Worldly Mental Calculations, is a 1692 collection of twenty linked stories by Ihara Saikaku, all set on New Year's Eve.
Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends
Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends (Выбранные места из переписки с друзьями) is an 1847 book by Nikolai Gogol of revised letters setting out his religious, moral, and social views.
Selected Poems of Bei Dao
Selected Poems of Bei Dao (北岛诗选) is a 1986 collection of 90 poems by the Chinese Misty Poetry poet Bei Dao, his first formally published collection in China.
Selected Poems of Seo Jeong-ju
Selected Poems of Seo Jeong-ju, the 1989 English collection translated by David R. McCann, was the first book-length English selection of the leading twentieth-century Korean poet.
Selected Poems of Yu Guangzhong
Selected Poems of Yu Guangzhong (余光中精选集) is an anthology of representative works by the Taiwanese poet Yu Guangzhong (1928–2017), best known for his 1972 nostalgia poem "Nostalgia."
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" is a long 1975 poem by John Ashbery, an ekphrastic meditation on Parmigianino's 1524 painting in which the artist paints his face distorted by a convex mirror.
Selige Sehnsucht
Selige Sehnsucht is an 1814 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1819 in the West-östlicher Divan, centred on a moth drawn to a flame.
Seneca Myths and Folk Tales
Seneca Myths and Folk Tales is a 1923 collection of Seneca oral narratives compiled by Arthur C. Parker and published by the Buffalo Historical Society.
Senhora
Senhora is an 1875 novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, in which the heiress Aurélia Camargo buys as her husband Fernando Seixas, the fiancé who abandoned her.
Senja di Jakarta
Senja di Jakarta, Twilight in Jakarta, is an Indonesian novel by Mochtar Lubis exposing corruption in 1950s Jakarta, the first Indonesian novel published in English translation (1963).
Senren Banka (千恋＊万花)
Senren Banka (千恋＊万花) is a Japanese-style romance adventure visual novel by Yuzusoft, its 10th-anniversary title, released July 29, 2016; set in hot-spring town Hoori around the broken divine sword Murasamemaru, with six routes and 500,000+ sales.
Sensation novel
The sensation novel was a British fiction genre of the 1860s, with plots of murder, bigamy, and madness among the respectable, exemplified by Wilkie Collins.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel (30 October 1811, 'By a Lady', Thomas Egerton on commission), began as the epistolary Elinor and Marianne in 1795, contrasts the Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne, and differs from Pride and Prejudice in its focus on sense versus sensibility.
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education (L'Éducation sentimentale) is an 1869 realist novel by Gustave Flaubert following Frédéric Moreau, a young man whose hopeless love for a married woman spans two decades of political upheaval in Paris.
Sentimental novel
The sentimental novel, or novel of sensibility, is a genre prominent in the late eighteenth century whose heroes show acute emotional responsiveness, best known from Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling.
Sentimento do mundo
Sentimento do mundo ("Feeling of the World") is a 1940 book of poems by the Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, his third poetry collection.
Senzai Wakashū
Senzai Wakashū (千載和歌集, "Collection of a Thousand Years"), usually shortened to Senzaishū, is the seventh imperial anthology of Japanese waka, compiled by Fujiwara no Shunzei and presented in 1188.
Seodongyo
Seodongyo (서동요, "Song of Seodong") is a four-line hyangga preserved in the Samguk yusa, attributed to Seodong, the boyhood name of Baekje's King Mu, who reportedly used it to win Princess Seonhwa of Silla.
Seogyeong byeolgok
Seogyeong byeolgok (서경별곡) is an anonymous Goryeo dynasty song, one of the representative Goryeo sogyo, lamenting a forced parting between lovers at Seogyeong, present-day Pyongyang, and it remained a court favorite into the early Joseon period.
Seongsan byeolgok
Seongsan byeolgok (성산별곡, "Song of Seongsan") is a Korean gasa lyric poem by Jeong Cheol, written around 1578 and praising the scenery of Seongsan in Damyang County.
Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas
Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas is a 2014 novel by Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan, translated into English in 2017 as Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash.
Sepotong Senja untuk Pacarku
Sepotong Senja untuk Pacarku is a 1991 short story by Indonesian writer Seno Gumira Ajidarma, first published in Kompas and among the most discussed works of modern Indonesian fiction.
Septology
Septology (Septologien) is Jon Fosse's seven-part Nynorsk novel published 2019-2021 in three volumes, written as one sentence without full stops, following painter Asle and his doppelganger during Advent; Nobel-linked, Booker-shortlisted.
Serat Bratayuda
Serat Bratayuda, also written Serat Baratayuda, is a Javanese verse adaptation of the Bharatayuddha, composed at the Surakarta court and attributed to Yasadipura I, a standard source for wayang plays.
Serat Centhini
Serat Centhini, also known as Suluk Tambangraras, is a Javanese encyclopedic narrative poem composed at the Surakarta court in the early 1810s, covering Javanese religion, music, food, and everyday life.