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Snowball (Animal Farm)
Snowball is the pig in George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) who rivals Napoleon for leadership and allegorizes Leon Trotsky. He paints the Seven Commandments, leads the Battle of the Cowshed, plans the windmill, is expelled by Napoleon's dogs, and is then scapegoated.
Snowpiercer (graphic novel series)
Snowpiercer (Le Transperceneige) is a French post-apocalyptic graphic novel series by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, serialized 1982–83, about a class-divided perpetual train on a frozen Earth, later adapted into Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film and a TV series.
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie are the gumnut-baby heroes of May Gibbs's 1918 Australian bush fairy tale, published in Sydney by Angus & Robertson, about two brothers seeking a Human.
Số đỏ
Số đỏ, published in English as Dumb Luck, is a satirical 1936 novel by Vietnamese writer Vũ Trọng Phụng about a vagabond's rise in colonial Hanoi.
So I'm a Spider, So What? (蜘蛛ですが、なにか？)
So I'm a Spider, So What? (蜘蛛ですが、なにか？, Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?) is a Japanese light novel by Okina Baba, illustrated by Tsukasa Kiryu, published by KADOKAWA since December 10, 2015, about a high school girl reincarnated as a weak spider monster surviving a monster-filled dungeon; adapted into manga, a 24-episode anime, and a 2024 browser game.
So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter (Une si longue lettre) is a 1979 epistolary novel by Mariama Bâ, a Senegalese author, in which a widow writes to her friend about polygamy.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is Douglas Adams' 1984 fourth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, titled after the dolphins' farewell, following Arthur Dent's return to a restored Earth and romance with Fenchurch.
So Vast the Prison
So Vast the Prison is a 1995 novel by Algerian writer Assia Djebar, the third volume of her Algerian Quartet, blending autobiography with Algerian women's history.
So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin?
So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? (Tensei Goblin dakedo Shitsumon Aru?) is a Japanese reincarnation-fantasy manga by Nazuna Miki and Tsukasa Araki, serialized since 2020.
So, I Can't Play H!
So, I Can't Play H! (だから僕は、Hができない。) is a Japanese ecchi-comedy light novel series by Pan Tachibana, 11 volumes in Fujimi Fantasia Bunko (2010–2013), with a 5-volume manga by Sho Okagiri and a 12-episode 2012 anime by feel.
Sobrados e Mucambos
Sobrados e Mucambos is a 1936 work of social history by Gilberto Freyre, tracing the decline of rural patriarchy in Brazil after the arrival of the Portuguese royal family in 1808.
Sobre los ángeles
Sobre los ángeles ("Concerning the Angels") is a 1929 book of poems by Rafael Alberti, regarded as his first surrealist work and central to modern Spanish poetry.
Sobrevivo
Sobrevivo ("I Survive") is a 1978 collection of poems by Claribel Alegría, published in Havana, winner of the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry.
Sodor (fictional island)
Sodor is the fictional Irish Sea island between the Isle of Man and Barrow-in-Furness, created by Rev. W. Awdry for The Railway Series; also called the Island of Sodor, setting of Thomas the Tank Engine, with its own map, history, and Sudric language.
Sohbet
Sohbet, also known by its alternative name söyleşi, is a Turkish prose genre of warm, conversational opinion writing that entered Turkish literature through journalism in the Tanzimat period.
Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال)
Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال), also Suhini-Mehar, is a Punjabi and Sindhi tragic love folktale of the Indus valley: Sohni swims the Chenab nightly to her lover Mahiwal until a swapped unbaked clay pot dissolves and both drown; classic texts by Fazal Shah Sayyad and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.
Sojan Badiar Ghat
Sojan Badiar Ghat (সোজন বাদিয়ার ঘাট) is a 1933 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the love of Sojan, a Muslim, and Dulali, a Hindu girl.
Sokmiingok
Sokmiingok (속미인곡), the "Continued Song of Longing," is a Korean gasa poem written by Jeong Cheol around 1589 as a sequel to his Samiingok, voicing two women's longing for their lovers.
Solar Throat Slashed
Solar Throat Slashed (French: Soleil cou coupé) is a 1948 collection of 72 poems by the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, published in Paris by K éditeur.
Solaris (fictional planet)
Solaris is the fictional planet in Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel Solaris, covered by a sentient ocean orbiting a binary star in Aquarius; humans study it for a century (Solaristics) without achieving Contact, and it was filmed in 1968, 1972 (Tarkovsky), and 2002.
Solaris (novel)
Solaris is a 1961 Polish science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem, first published by Wydawnictwo MON. Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a station above a sentient ocean that creates human replicas from memories; known for its unknowable-alien theme, indirect 1970 English translation, 2011 Johnston translation, and Tarkovsky and Soderbergh films.
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy (Benjamin) is The Boys character: three legacy comic superheroes created by Garth Ennis, and the TV version played by Jensen Ackles, Homelander's father, a Russian-captive Supe with a radioactive depowering blast, returning in Vought Rising (2027).
Soldiers Alive
Soldiers Alive (Ikite iru heitai) is a novella by the Japanese writer Ishikawa Tatsuzō, published in 1938 and based on his reporting from the Japanese march on Nanjing.
Soledades
Soledades, known in English as The Solitudes, is an unfinished two-part Baroque poem by Luis de Góngora, written in the difficult culteranismo style and begun around 1613.
Soledades, galerías y otros poemas
Soledades, galerías y otros poemas is a 1907 poetry collection by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado, expanding his first book, Soledades (1903), with themes of time, memory, and dream.
Solibo Magnificent
Solibo Magnificent is a 1988 novel by Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau about the death of a Creole storyteller and the failed police investigation that follows.
Solo Leveling (나 혼자만 레벨업)
Solo Leveling (나 혼자만 레벨업, I Alone Level Up) is a Korean web novel by Chugong about E-rank hunter Sung Jinwoo, whose private game System lets him level up; its Redice Studio webtoon spawned an anime, Netmarble's Arise game, and 25-language licensing.
Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a fictional Puritan adventurer created by Robert E. Howard, debuting in "Red Shadows" (Weird Tales, August 1928); a God-driven avenger with sword, pistols, and a ju-ju staff, adapted in comics and a 2010 film.
Soma (Brave New World)
Soma is the fictional euphoric, hangoverless tranquilliser distributed free by the World State in Huxley's Brave New World (1932), named after the Vedic ritual drink soma; rationed in half-gramme tablets, it symbolizes drug-induced social control.
Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature
Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature (Wenxue gailiang chuyi) is Hu Shi's 1917 essay in New Youth calling for vernacular Chinese as the legitimate literary language.