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Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos is a Marvel war comic launched May 1963 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the debut of Nick Fury; 167 issues to 1981 with a racially integrated WWII squad.
Sha Wujing (沙悟净)
Sha Wujing (沙悟净, Sha Seng, Friar Sand, Sandy) is the third disciple of Tang Sanzang in Journey to the West: an exiled Curtain-Raising General turned Flowing Sands River demon, converted by Guanyin, who carries the luggage and becomes an arhat.
Shabdangal
Shabdangal (ശബ്ദങ്ങൾ, The Voices) is a 1947 Malayalam novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer about a soldier in the Second World War, noted as the first Malayalam work to touch on non-heteronormative union.
Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone (2012) is Leigh Bardugo's debut young adult fantasy novel, book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy set in Russia-inspired Ravka, where soldier Alina Starkov discovers light-summoning powers; adapted by Netflix in 2021.
Shadow of Paradise
Shadow of Paradise (Sombra del paraíso) is a 1944 book of poems by the Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre, his first after the Spanish Civil War.
Shah Jo Risalo
Shah Jo Risalo (شاھ جو رسالو) is the collected poetry of Sindhi Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, regarded as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature.
Shahab Nama
Shahab Nama (شہاب نامہ) is the Urdu autobiography of Pakistani civil servant Qudrat Ullah Shahab, published in 1986 and considered a key work of Urdu non-fiction.
Shahnameh (شاهنامه)
Shahnameh (شاهنامه, Book of Kings), the Persian national epic by Ferdowsi (940–1020), about 50,000 couplets in three mythical, legendary, and historical sections, from creation to the 651 CE Arab conquest.
Shahnameh-khani
Shahnameh-khani (شاهنامهخوانی) is the Iranian tradition of reciting or singing verses of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh before an audience, ranging from simple reading to the professional dramatic storytelling known as naqqali.
Shahnameh-ye Abu Mansuri
The Shahnameh-ye Abu Mansuri (شاهنامهٔ ابومنصوری) was a New Persian prose history of ancient Iranian kings, completed in 957 at Tus for Abu Mansur Muhammad.
Shajara-i Turk
Shajara-i Turk, also rendered Shajara-yi Turkī, is a 17th-century dynastic history and genealogy of the Turkic peoples by Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur Khan, khan of Khiva.
Shaken, not stirred
"Shaken, not stirred" is the martini instruction of fictional spy James Bond, first appearing in Ian Fleming's 1956 novel Diamonds Are Forever and named one of film's most famous lines in 2005.
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love (1998) is a John Madden romantic comedy written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes; it won seven Oscars including Best Picture and grossed about $289 million worldwide.
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a 1998 book by the American critic Harold Bloom arguing that Shakespeare invented the modern sense of human personality.
Shakespeare's late romances
Shakespeare's late romances, also called the Shakespearean romances, are the plays of his final phase, roughly 1606 to 1611: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.
Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets: 154 English-form sonnets by William Shakespeare, first published in the 1609 quarto Shake-speares Sonnets published by Thomas Thorpe, addressed largely to a young man and a woman, and ending with A Lover's Complaint.
Shakespearean comedy
Shakespearean comedy, or Shakespeare's comedies, is the group of Shakespeare plays classified as comedies, defined by happy endings and marriage, from the 1623 First Folio's division into Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
Shakespearean tragedy
Shakespearean tragedy: the tragic plays of William Shakespeare, classified in the 1623 First Folio, shaped chiefly by Seneca rather than Greek tragedy, performed at the Globe and Blackfriars, and defined by A. C. Bradley as tales of suffering ending in death.
Shakugan no Shana (灼眼のシャナ)
Shakugan no Shana (灼眼のシャナ) is a Japanese school battle fantasy light novel series by Yashichiro Takahashi and Noizi Ito, Dengeki Bunko, first volume 10 November 2002, concluded 2012, adapted into three TV anime seasons, a film, and OVAs from 2005 to 2011 by J.C.STAFF.
Shakuni
Shakuni (Sanskrit: शकुनि) is a prince of Gandhara in the Mahabharata, brother of Queen Gandhari and maternal uncle of Duryodhana, who rigged the dice game against Yudhishthira.
Shakuntala
Shakuntala (Abhijnanashakuntalam) is Kalidasa's seven-act Sanskrit play about Dushyanta, Shakuntala, a curse, and a recognition ring, adapted from the Mahabharata; first translated into English by William Jones in 1789.
Shalya
Shalya is the king of Madra in the Mahabharata. He fought for the Kauravas after being tricked, serving as Karna's charioteer before being slain by Yudhishthira.
Shane Hollander
Shane Hollander, fictional Canadian hockey captain of Rachel Reid's Game Changers romance novels (Heated Rivalry, The Long Game), secret partner of Russian rival Ilya Rozanov; played by Hudson Williams in the Crave/HBO Max series Heated Rivalry.
Shang Xie
Shang Xie (上邪, "Heaven!") is a Han dynasty yuefu love poem in which a woman swears eternal fidelity to her beloved by invoking five impossible natural catastrophes.
Shangri-La
Shangri-La, coined by James Hilton in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, is a fictional Himalayan paradise derived from the Tibetan legend of Shambhala; Zhongdian County, Yunnan, was renamed Shangri-La in 2001.
Shangri-La Frontier
Shangri-La Frontier (シャングリラ・フロンティア) is Katarina's web novel since 2017 and Ryosuke Fuji's Weekly Shonen Magazine manga since 2020 about kusoge hunter Sunraku in a 30-million-player VR game; won 47th Kodansha Manga Award, anime by C2C since 2023, season 3 in 2027.
Shangu Ji
Shangu Ji (山谷集, "Valley Collection") is the collected works of the Northern Song poet and calligrapher Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), leader of the Jiangxi school, transmitted through inner, outer, and supplementary collections.
Shannara
Shannara: Terry Brooks's epic fantasy series begun with The Sword of Shannara (1977), the first fantasy NYT bestseller; set on post-apocalyptic future Earth, 36 primary works, ended with The Last Druid (2020), adapted as MTV's The Shannara Chronicles.
Shanta
Shanta (शान्ता), also Shanta Devi, is the wife of sage Rishyasringa in the Ramayana tradition; her parentage is disputed between recensions, as daughter of Dasharatha of Ayodhya given in adoption to Romapada of Anga, or Romapada's own daughter.
Shantanu (शांतनु)
Shantanu (शांतनु), also Śantanu, is the Kuru king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata, father of Bhishma by Ganga and of Chitrangada and Vichitravirya by Satyavati; his second marriage triggers Bhishma's celibacy vow and the dynasty's succession crisis.