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Shivlilamrut
Shivlilamrut (शिवलीलामृत), the nectar of Shiva's play, is a Marathi devotional poetic text composed by Shridhar Swami Nazarekar at Kashi around 1658's poet's era, retelling the Skanda Purana's Shivlila.
Shiyi Shi Shihua
Shiyi Shi Shihua (石遗室诗话, "Poetry Talks from the Shiyi Studio") is a work of classical Chinese poetry criticism by Chen Yan, leader of the Tongguang school.
Shmoo
Shmoo (plural shmoon), fictional gourd-shaped creature created by Al Capp, introduced in Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948; provides all human needs, sparked the 1948–1952 Shmoo Craze, and became an economics allegory.
Shōbōgenzō
Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵, "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") is the principal written work of Dōgen, founder of Japanese Sōtō Zen, delivered from 1231 to 1253.
Shoggoth
Shoggoth: Lovecraft's amorphous protoplasmic slave-creature, first named in Fungi from Yuggoth (1929-30) and detailed in At the Mountains of Madness (1936); bred by Elder Things, rebelled, now a Cthulhu Mythos and AI-meme icon.
Shōgun (novel)
Shōgun (1975) is James Clavell's historical novel of Japan in 1600, part of his Asian Saga, following shipwrecked English navigator John Blackthorne, based on William Adams, amid Toranaga's (Tokugawa Ieyasu's) rise; it sold over six million copies by 1980.
Shōjo bungaku
Shōjo bungaku (少女文学, girls' literature), also called shōjo shōsetsu, is Japanese fiction written for adolescent girls. It developed in girls' magazines from the early twentieth century, with Yoshiya Nobuko as its representative author.
Shōjo manga (少女漫画)
Shōjo manga (少女漫画, girls' comics) is Japanese manga marketed to female readers through girls' magazines, from prewar titles like Shōjo Club and Ribon no kishi (1953) to the weekly 1963 era, the Year 24 Group, and international hits like Fruits Basket.
Shomin Sample
Shomin Sample (俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」として拉致られた件) is a Japanese light novel series by Takafumi Nanatsuki, 11 volumes 2011–2015, adapted into manga, a 2015 anime by SILVER LINK., and a live-action film.
Shona novel
A Shona novel is a novel written in Shona, a Bantu language of Zimbabwe, forming the central genre of written Shona literature. The genre began with Solomon Mutswairo's Feso, published in 1956.
Shonan Bakusozoku (湘南爆走族)
Shonan Bakusozoku (湘南爆走族) is a Japanese manga series by Satoshi Yoshida about a high-school biker gang on the Shonan coast, serialized from 1983 and selling over 29 million copies.
Shonkhonil Karagar
Shonkhonil Karagar (শঙ্খনীল কারাগার) is a 1973 Bengali novel by the Bangladeshi writer Humayun Ahmed, the first he wrote though Nondito Noroke was published first.
Shooting an Elephant
Shooting an Elephant is George Orwell's 1936 essay, first published in New Writing, about a colonial policeman in Moulmein, Burma, forced by a crowd to shoot a rogue elephant; its historicity is debated.
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays is a posthumous collection of 18 essays by George Orwell, published in London in 1950, nine months after his death.
Short story
A short story is a brief work of prose fiction, typically 1,000 to 7,500 words, built around a single conflict and readable in one sitting.
Short story cycle
A short story cycle, also called linked stories or a novel-in-stories, is a book of short stories that are independent yet interrelated, sitting between the collection and the novel.
Shōryōshū
Shōryōshū (性霊集), fully Henjō Hokki Shōryōshū, is a ten-volume collection of Chinese-language poetry and prose by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kūkai, compiled by his disciple Shinzei around 835.
Shōsetsuka ni Narō (小説家になろう)
Shōsetsuka ni Narō (小説家になろう, Narō) is Japan's largest web novel posting site, launched April 2004 and run by HinaProject Inc., with about 1.34 million works, 2.98 million users, 9,000+ published books, and over 200 anime adaptations by 2026.
Shōshimin Series (小市民シリーズ)
Shōshimin Series, also known as Shōshimin, is a mystery novel series by Honobu Yonezawa. It follows two high school students who solve small cases, and it was adapted into a 22-episode anime.
Shota Oni
Shota Oni (ショタおに) is a boys' love manga by Miyuki Nakayama, published by Square Enix under Gangan BLiss since 2021, about elementary schooler Tsubaki's crush on his older friend Yuu; its anime adaptation is retitled Ore to Yu Nii!.
Shrek!
Shrek! is William Steig's 1990 picture book about a repulsive ogre who leaves home and marries an even uglier princess, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; unlike the DreamWorks film it inspired, its hero has no kind heart hidden inside.
Shri Ramachandra Kripalu (श्रीरामचन्द्र कृपालु)
Shri Ramachandra Kripalu (श्रीरामचन्द्र कृपालु), the Shri Ram Stuti, is Tulsidas's five-couplet hymn to Rama from Vinaya Patrika pada 45, sung daily at Rama temples and on Ram Navami across North India.
Shriftn
Shriftn (שריפטן) was a Yiddish literary journal published in New York from 1912 to 1926 by David Ignatoff, the main outlet for the modernist group Di Yunge.
Shriman Yogi
Shriman Yogi (श्रीमान योगी) is a Marathi biographical historical novel by Ranjit Desai, first published in 1968, following the life of Shivaji Maharaj from childhood to his rule as Chhatrapati.
Shringarashataka
Shringarashataka, or Shringara Shataka, is a Sanskrit collection of about one hundred verses on erotic love attributed to the poet Bhartrihari of the 4th to 5th centuries.
Shruks of Nund Rishi
The Shruks of Nund Rishi are short didactic aphorisms in the Kashmiri language composed by the mystic Sheikh Nur-ud-Din (1378–1440), called Nund Rishi or Sheikh-ul-Alam, which with Lal Ded's vākhs are the earliest surviving Kashmiri poetry.
Shtetl literature
Shtetl literature is the Yiddish and Hebrew writing set in the shtetl, the small Jewish market town of pre–World War II Eastern Europe, first critiqued and later memorialized by writers.
Shu Ting's Poems
Shu Ting's Poems is the body of poetry by Chinese poet Shu Ting, a leading Misty Poet known for "To the Oak" and "Motherland, My Dear Motherland".
Shudra Tapasvi
Shudra Tapasvi (ಶೂದ್ರ ತಪಸ್ವಿ, "The Shudra Ascetic") is a 1944 Kannada play by Kuvempu that rewrites the Shambuka episode of the Ramayana so Rama refuses to kill the low-caste ascetic.
Shuggie Bain
Shuggie Bain is the 2020 debut novel of Douglas Stuart, set in Glasgow, following a boy and his alcoholic mother, and winner of the 2020 Booker Prize.