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Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı
Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı is a 1936 epic poem by Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet about the 15th-century Ottoman jurist and Sufi Şeyh Bedreddin, who sought an egalitarian social order.
Simcheongga
Simcheongga (심청가) is one of the five surviving Korean pansori epics, telling of the filial daughter Sim Cheong, who sacrifices herself in the Indang Sea.
Simon Birch
Simon Birch is a 1998 American comedy-drama and coming-of-age film, the directorial debut of Mark Steven Johnson, starring Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, and Ashley Judd.
Simon the Musician
Simon the Musician (Сымон-музыка) is a lyrical-epic poem in six parts by Yakub Kolas, written from 1911 to 1925, about a self-taught violinist from a poor peasant family.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) is Becky Albertalli's debut YA novel about closeted teen Simon Spier, his anonymous pen pal Blue, blackmail by Martin, the 2016 Morris Award, and the 2018 film Love, Simon.
Simple Verses
Simple Verses (Versos sencillos) is an 1891 collection of 46 poems by the Cuban poet and patriot José Martí, published in New York during his exile from Cuba.
Simplicissimus
Simplicissimus (Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, first printed in 1668 and set in the Thirty Years' War.
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Simplicius Simplicissimus is the protagonist and narrator of The Adventurous Simplicissimus, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's 1668 picaresque novel set in the Thirty Years' War.
Sin City
Sin City is Frank Miller's black-and-white noir comic series set in Basin City, first serialized in Dark Horse Presents in 1991, collected in seven volumes, and adapted into Robert Rodriguez's 2005 and 2014 films.
Sin Xay
Sin Xay, more fully Sang Sinxay (Lao: ສັງສິນໄຊ), is a Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham, dated about 1600, and regarded as Laos' national epic.
Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad the Sailor (السندباد البحري): fictional Baghdadi merchant whose seven sea voyages form a celebrated cycle of One Thousand and One Nights, Arabic in origin, later incorporated into the Nights and brought to Europe by Antoine Galland (1704-1717).
Sindbad in His Eighth Voyage
Sindbad in His Eighth Voyage (السندباد في رحلته الثامنة) is a long Arabic poem by Khalil Hawi, published in 1960, in which Sindbad makes an invented eighth voyage into the self.
Sindhi folk epic
A Sindhi folk epic is a long oral narrative of heroism or romance from Sindh, Pakistan, sung by bards; its love legends include Sassui Punnhu and Umar Marvi.
Sindhi novel
The Sindhi novel is long-form prose fiction in the Sindhi language, introduced by Mirza Kalich Beg, whose Zeenat (1890) is credited as the first original Sindhi novel.
Sindhi short story
The Sindhi short story (مختصر ڪهاڻي) is the principal prose fiction genre of the Sindhi language, begun in 1914 with stories by Lal Chand Amardinomal and Mirza Qaleich Beg.
Sinestro Corps
Sinestro Corps, also called Yellow Lanterns, DC Comics army founded by Thaal Sinestro, powered by the yellow light of fear, debut 2007 Sinestro Corps Special #1, rival of the willpower-based Green Lantern Corps.
Sinking
Sinking (沉沦) is a short story by the Chinese writer Yu Dafu, first published in 1921, about a Chinese student in Japan driven to drown himself by loneliness and national humiliation.
Sins of the Father
"Sins of the Father" (also "the sins of the fathers") is the biblical phrase, from the Ten Commandments and Deuteronomy 5:9, describing sin's consequences passing to later generations, countered by Ezekiel 18:20; also the title of many novels by Archer, Dixon, Bale, and others.
Sinsoseol
Sinsoseol (신소설, "new fiction"), also called Gaehwagi fiction, is the body of Korean novels written from about 1906 to 1917 that spread enlightenment themes and bridged classical and modern fiction.
Sir Fantasy
Sir Fantasy (Zixu, "Sir Vacuous") is a fictional envoy of Chu invented by the Western Han poet Sima Xiangru as the chief speaker of his Zixu fu.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: late-14th-century Middle English alliterative romance by the anonymous Gawain/Pearl Poet, unique in MS Cotton Nero A.x; beheading game, Green Chapel quest, girdle test of chivalry and Christian faith.
Sir Orfeo
Sir Orfeo is a Middle English Breton lay, composed anonymously around 1300, that retells the Orpheus myth as a fairy story with a happy ending.
Sirat al-Zir Salim
Sirat al-Zir Salim (سيرة الزير سالم), also called Sirat Zir Salim Abu Layla al-Muhalhil, is an Arabic folk epic telling of Zir Salim's revenge for his murdered brother Kulaib.
Sirat Antar
Sirat Antar (سيرة عنترة) is an Arabic popular epic built around ʿAntara ibn Shaddād, a 6th-century poet of the Muʿallaqāt, recounting his battles and his love for ʿAbla.
Sirat Bani Hilal
Sirat Bani Hilal (سيرة بني هلال, al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah) is an Arabic oral epic telling of the Bani Hilal Bedouin tribe's tenth-century migration from Arabia to North Africa.
Sirat Dhat al-Himma
Sirat Dhat al-Himma (سيرة الأميرة ذات الهمة, Story of the Princess Possessor of Resolve) is an Arabic popular epic, the only long-standing one with a woman as its heroic figure.
Sirat-un-Nabi
Sirat-un-Nabi (سیرت النبی, "Life of the Prophet") is a landmark multi-volume Urdu biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, begun by Shibli Nomani and completed by Syed Sulaiman Nadvi.
Siréna
Siréna is a 1935 generational and social novel by Czech writer Marie Majerová, following four generations of the mining family Hudec in Kladno and regarded as a peak of the Czech social novel.
Sirius Black
Sirius Black (also Sirius Black III, Padfoot) is the fictional godfather of Harry Potter in J. K. Rowling's series: a Gryffindor Marauder, unregistered black-dog Animagus, and wrongly imprisoned Azkaban escapee killed by Bellatrix Lestrange.
Sirupanarruppatai
Sirupanarruppatai (சிறுபாணாற்றுப்படை) is a classical Tamil Sangam poem, the third of the ten Pattuppattu idylls, in which poet Nathathanar directs a wandering bard to the patron Oyman Nalliyakodan.