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Shūi Gusō
Shūi Gusō (拾遺愚草) is the personal waka anthology that the poet Fujiwara no Teika compiled from his own poems in three volumes, completed in 1216, one of the Six Poet Collections.
Shui Long Yin: Ascending Jiankang's Shangxin Pavilion
Shui Long Yin: Ascending Jiankang's Shangxin Pavilion (水龙吟·登建康赏心亭) is a ci poem by Xin Qiji, written around 1174 after climbing the Shangxin Pavilion in Jiankang, now Nanjing.
Shūi Wakashū
Shūi Wakashū (拾遺和歌集, Collection of Gleanings) is the third imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, compiled around 1005 to 1007 and containing about 1,350 poems in twenty volumes.
Shuihu Houzhuan
Shuihu Houzhuan (水浒后传) is a 40-chapter Qing dynasty novel by Chen Chen, a sequel to Water Margin in which surviving Liangshan heroes found a state in Siam.
Shuka Saptati
Shuka Saptati, "Seventy Tales of the Parrot," is a Sanskrit story collection in which a pet parrot tells tales night after night to keep his mistress faithful until her husband returns.
Shuo Yue Quanzhuan
Shuo Yue Quanzhuan (说岳全传), also known as Jingzhong Yue Zhuan, is a Qing dynasty novel by Qian Cai telling the life of Song general Yue Fei.
Shurpanakha (शूर्पणखा)
Shurpanakha (शूर्पणखा), also Surpanakha, is the rakshasi sister of Ravana in Valmiki's Ramayana, Aranya Kanda; her mutilation by Lakshmana after she propositions Rama triggers Khara and Dushana's deaths and Ravana's abduction of Sita.
Shutter Island
Shutter Island: Dennis Lehane's 2003 psychological thriller about U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigating Ashecliffe Hospital in Boston Harbor in 1954, basis for Martin Scorsese's 2010 film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, and Mark Ruffalo.
Shuyu Ci
Collected Ci of Li Qingzhao, also known as Shuyu Ci (漱玉词), is a collection of ci lyrics by Song-dynasty poet Li Qingzhao, lost by the 14th century and later reconstructed.
Shy (novella)
Shy is Max Porter's fourth book, a short 2023 novel (Graywolf, Faber) about a troubled 15-year-old who sneaks out of the Last Chance institution in 1995 England with a rucksack of rocks, told as a polyphonic collage of voices set to drum'n'bass.
Shy Girl
Shy Girl, horror novel by Mia Ballard, self-published on Amazon February 2025, acquired by Hachette (Wildfire UK, Orbit US). Cancelled March 2026 after Pangram flagged up to 78% AI-generated text; first major-publisher novel pulled over AI use.
Shylock
Shylock is the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, who lends Antonio 3,000 ducats and demands a pound of his flesh as security for the loan.
Sibylline Oracles
The Sibylline Oracles (Oracula Sibyllina) are pseudepigraphic prophecies in Greek hexameter verse, composed from the 2nd century BCE onward by Jewish and later Christian authors voicing the legendary Sibyl.
Siddha literature
Siddha literature (सिद्ध साहित्य) is the religious verse of the Siddhas, tantric Buddhist yogis active from about the eighth century, regarded as the foundation of early Hindi literature.
Siddha-Hemashabdanushasana
Siddha-Hemashabdanushasana (Siddhahemaśabdānuśāsana) is a twelfth-century grammar of Sanskrit and Prakrit by the Jain scholar Hemacandra, whose eighth chapter contains the first systematic grammar of Apabhraṃśa.
Siddhar poetry
Siddhar poetry (சித்தர் பாடல்கள்) is Tamil verse by the Siddhars, ascetics believed to have attained spiritual perfection, covering devotion, yoga, gnana, and medicine; tradition recognizes eighteen Siddhars, including Tirumular and Bogar.
Siddharama Charite
Siddharama Charite (ಸಿದ್ಧರಾಮ ಚರಿತೆ) is a Kannada hagiographic kavya associated with Raghavanka, a thirteenth-century poet of Hampi, narrating the life of the Virashaiva saint Siddharama of Sonnalige.
Siddhartha (novel)
Siddhartha. Eine indische Dichtung, Hermann Hesse's 1922 novella about a Brahmin's son seeking enlightenment in ancient India; written 1919-1922 in Montagnola, translated into over sixty languages, and noted for diverging from Buddhist doctrine.
Sidekick
Sidekick: a companion character to a more important protagonist, formally the deuteragonist. Covers the archetype's history from Enkidu and Dr. Watson to Robin (1940), its four classic narrative roles, and works named Sidekick.
Signatures: An Anthology of Philippine Poetry in English
Signatures is a 1955 anthology of Philippine poetry in English, published in Manila and associated with the writers Alejandrino G. Hufana and R. V. Diaz.
Sigrdrífumál
Sigrdrífumál, also spelled Sigurdrífumál, is an Old Norse heroic poem in the thirteenth-century Codex Regius in which the valkyrie Sigrdrífa teaches the dragon-slayer Sigurðr runic magic and moral wisdom.
Sihâm-ı Kazâ
Sihâm-ı Kazâ (Arrows of Destiny) is the anthology of satirical verse by the Ottoman poet Nef'î, regarded as the most famous satire in classical Turkish literature.
Sikandarnama
Sikandarnama (সিকান্দরনামা) is a Bengali narrative poem completed in 1673 by Syed Alaol, a Bengali rendering of Nizami Ganjavi's Persian work on Alexander the Great.
Siku Njema
Siku Njema, Swahili for "A Good Day," is a 1996 Swahili novel by the Kenyan writer Ken Walibora and his first, serving as a Kenyan secondary-school set book.
Siku ya Watenzi
Siku ya Watenzi, also published as Siku ya Watenzi Wote, is a Swahili-language novel by the Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, written before Tanganyikan independence and published after his death.
Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal
Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal is a 1970 Tamil novel by the Indian writer D. Jayakanthan that expands his controversial short story Agnipravesam and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for 1972.
Silamaka and Poullori
Silamaka and Poullori is a West African epic cycle, told in Fula and Bambara, about two Fula heroes who resisted the Bambara kingdom of Ségou.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, George Eliot's 1861 novel (William Blackwood and Sons), follows a weaver falsely accused of theft who hoards gold in Raveloe until the stolen treasure is replaced by the child Eppie.
Silvae
The Silvae, Latin for "woods" or "raw material," are 32 occasional poems in five books by the Roman poet Statius, written probably between 89 and 96 CE.
Silver Latin epic
Silver Latin epic is the Latin epic poetry written after Augustus' death in AD 14, principally by Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius in the first century AD.