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Serat Dewa Ruci
Serat Dewa Ruci is a Javanese wayang text in which Bima seeks the water of life and meets the deity Dewa Ruci, who teaches spiritual perfection.
Serat Kalatidha
Serat Kalatidha is a celebrated Javanese poem by the Surakarta court poet Ronggowarsita, written around 1860 in the Sinom meter, describing an age of madness.
Serat Kandha
Serat Kandha, also written Serat Kanda, is a genre of Javanese manuscript texts retelling wayang stories and Javanese dynastic history, used as libretti for court wayang wong performances.
Serat Rama
Serat Rama is a Javanese retelling of the Ramayana in metrical macapat verse by the poet Yasadipura I, used for wayang kulit and wayang wong performances.
Serat Wedhatama
Serat Wedhatama ("The Foremost Teaching") is a 19th-century Javanese didactic poem in macapat verse by Mangkunegara IV of Surakarta, Central Java, teaching ethics and the unity of servant and Lord.
Serat Wulang Reh
Serat Wulang Reh (ꦱꦼꦫꦠ꧀ꦮꦸꦭꦁꦫꦺꦃ) is a didactic Javanese poem by Pakubuwono IV, king of Surakarta, finished in 1808 as instructions and prohibitions for right living.
Serdarot
Serdarot (Сердарот) is an epic poem written in Greek in 1860 by the Macedonian poet Grigor Stavrev Prličev, winning the Athens University competition and the title "second Homer".
Serenidad
Serenidad is a book of poems by the Mexican poet Amado Nervo, first published in Madrid in 1914, marking his turn away from Modernismo toward plainer, confessional verse.
Serial (literature)
Serial (literature), or serialised fiction: a single novel published in successive installments (numbers, parts, fascicles) in newspapers or magazines, from Dickens's Pickwick Papers (1836–37) through Victorian part-issue, syndication, and modern web serial platforms.
Şermin
Şermin is a 1914 book of 31 children's poems by Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret, his last work and the first Turkish children's poetry book in syllabic meter.
Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind
Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind is a 1981 work of creative nonfiction by Bessie Head presenting the history of Serowe, Botswana, through villagers' own words.
Sessiz Gemi
"The Silent Ship" is a 1921 Turkish poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı that portrays death as a sea voyage, and is regarded as his signature work.
Seto Dharti
Seto Dharti ("White Earth") is a 2012 Nepali novel by Amar Neupane about Tara, a Brahmin girl widowed at nine; it won the Madan Puraskar.
Setting (narrative)
Setting (narrative): the spatiotemporal circumstances, time, place, and social environment, in which a story's events occur; also called milieu. Distinguished from spatial frames and storyworld in narratology; typed as irrelevant, functional, mental, or symbolic in prose fiction.
Sevastopol Sketches
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) is a cycle of three short works by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1855 and 1856, on the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War.
Seven Days in May
Seven Days in May is a 1962 Cold War political thriller novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II about a military coup against a disarmament-minded US president, adapted into John Frankenheimer's acclaimed 1964 film starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales, in Danish Syv fantastiske Fortællinger, is the 1934 debut story collection of Danish writer Karen Blixen, published in New York under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen.
Seven Little Australians
Seven Little Australians is an 1894 children's novel by Ethel Turner about the seven children of Captain Woolcot and their stepmother in 1890s Sydney.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph is T. E. Lawrence's memoir of his service with Arab forces in the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918, published after his death in 1935.
Seven Sages of Rome
The Seven Sages of Rome, the western form of the Book of Sindbad, is a medieval collection where seven sages delay a prince's execution with daily tales.
Seven Seas Entertainment
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC: American publisher of manga, light novels, danmei, and webtoons, founded by Jason DeAngelis in 2004; Airship, Ghost Ship, Siren imprints; distributed by PRHPS since 2021; acquired 100% by Media Do International in 2026.
Seven Stimuli
Seven Stimuli (Qifa, 七發) is a Western Han fu by Mei Sheng in which a guest cures an ailing Chu prince through seven presentations, founding the seven-style genre.
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity is a 1930 work of literary criticism by the English poet William Empson, which treats ambiguity in poetry as a source of richness.
Seven-Step Poem
The Seven-Step Poem (七步诗) is a Chinese poem attributed to Cao Zhi, said to have been composed in seven steps at his brother Cao Pi's command.
Severance (novel)
Severance is Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel (FSG), a satirical zombie-apocalypse story in which immune office worker Candace Chen survives the Shen Fever pandemic. It won the Kirkus Prize and NYPL Young Lions Award and is unrelated to the Apple TV+ series of the same name.
Severus Snape
Severus Snape (セブルス・スネイプ), Harry Potter character: Slytherin Head and Potions Master, secretly Dumbledore's double agent among the Death Eaters, motivated by lifelong love for Lily Potter; killed by Nagini, played by Alan Rickman.
Sex (book)
Sex (book) refers to Sex, the Image Comics comic book series by Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski (2013-2016), about retired superhero Simon Cooke in Saturn City; six collected volumes, mature readers rating, distinct from Sex Criminals.
Seyahatname
The Seyahatname, also written Seyahatnâme, is a ten-volume 17th-century travel work by the Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi, covering journeys through the Ottoman world from the 1630s to 1683.
Seytek
Seytek (Сейтек) is the third and concluding part of the Kyrgyz epic trilogy Manas, Semetey, and Seytek, following the hero Manas's grandson; the trilogy joined UNESCO's heritage list in 2013.
SF Masterworks
SF Masterworks is a Gollancz/Orion paperback series launched in 1999 by Malcolm Edwards to keep classic postwar science fiction in print, with numbered and relaunched runs, Fantasy and Golden Age companion lines, and well over a hundred titles.