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Some People

Some People (有的人) is a 1949 lyric poem by the Chinese poet Zang Kejia, written to commemorate the thirteenth anniversary of Lu Xun's death and taught in Chinese schools.

Some Prefer Nettles

Some Prefer Nettles (蓼喰ふ虫, Tade kuu mushi) is a 1929 novel by the Japanese writer Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, portraying a disintegrating Osaka marriage and marking his turn toward traditional Japanese aesthetics.

Someone Hertz

Someone Hertz (さむわんへるつ, Samuwan Herutsu) is a romantic comedy manga by Ei Yamano serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since September 16, 2025, about two students competing to get jokes read on late-night radio; 500,000 copies and Next Manga Award 2026 print winner.

Someone to Run With

Someone to Run With (Hebrew: מישהו לרוץ איתו) is a 2000 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman about two Jerusalem teenagers linked by a lost dog and a street underworld, which won the 2001 Sapir Prize.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell's 2024 DAW debut novel, is a Nebula and Locus Award-winning horror-fantasy romance in which the shapeshifting monster Shesheshen falls in love with Homily, a woman hunting a monster blamed for cursing her family.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)

Something Wicked This Way Comes is Ray Bradbury's 1962 Simon & Schuster dark fantasy novel about Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show arriving in Green Town, Illinois; it grew from the 1948 story "The Black Ferris", was titled from Macbeth, and was filmed by Disney in 1983.

Son (novel)

Son (2012) by Lois Lowry is the fourth and final Giver Quartet novel, following Birthmother Claire's search for her son Gabriel across the worlds of The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger, published by Houghton Mifflin.

Son of a Witch

Son of a Witch (2005) by Gregory Maguire, second novel of the Wicked Years and sequel to Wicked, follows Liir, possibly Elphaba's son, through post-Wizard Oz, the Cloister of Saint Glinda, and the search for Nor in Southstairs.

Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh

Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh, also Sơn Tinh Thuỷ Tinh, is a Vietnamese folk legend in which mountain and water gods compete to marry a Hùng king's daughter.

Sonar Tari

Sonar Tari (সোনার তরী, "The Golden Boat") is a Bengali poem by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in 1893, in which a boatman carrying paddy represents eternal Time.

Sonar Tori

Sonar Tori (Bengali: সোনার তরী, alternatively spelt Sonar Tari) is an 1894 collection of Bengali poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, written along the rivers of rural Bengal and regarded as his first popular success.

Sonatina

Sonatina is a poem in Spanish by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, first published in Buenos Aires in 1895, portraying a sad princess awaiting a liberating prince.

Sonatorrek

Sonatorrek is a 25-stanza Old Norse skaldic elegy attributed to the tenth-century Icelandic poet Egill Skallagrímsson, composed, according to Egils saga, after his son Bǫðvarr drowned around 960.

Sonde met die Bure

Sonde met die bure is a 1921 satiric-humorous novel by Afrikaans writer C.J. Langenhoven, in which the elephant Herrie pulls a converted tram-house from Oudtshoorn to Meiringspoort.

Soneto de Fidelidade

"Soneto de Fidelidade" ("Sonnet of Fidelity") is a sonnet by Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, written in Portugal in 1939 and known for promising love infinite while it lasts.

Sonetos de la muerte

Sonetos de la muerte (Sonnets of Death) is a series of thirteen sonnets by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, whose first three won Santiago's 1914 Juegos Florales poetry prize.

Sonetos del amor oscuro

Sonetos del amor oscuro (Sonnets of Dark Love) is a series of eleven love sonnets by Federico García Lorca, written mainly in 1935 and published posthumously in 1984.

Sonette

Sonette is the title of the German sonnet collections of Andreas Gryphius, first published in 1637, known for the vanitas theme and the experience of the Thirty Years' War.

Sonetti lussuriosi

Sonetti lussuriosi is a set of sixteen erotic sonnets by the Italian writer Pietro Aretino, written around 1524 to accompany Raimondi's engravings known as I modi.

Sonetti romaneschi

Sonetti romaneschi is the corpus of 2,279 sonnets in the Roman vernacular written by the Roman poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli between 1830 and 1849 and published after his death.

Sống mòn

Sống mòn ("Dying Slowly") is a Vietnamese realist novel by Nam Cao, completed in 1944 and first published in 1956, about a poor teacher whose poverty wears away his ideals.

Sông núi nước Nam

Sông núi nước Nam, or Nam quốc sơn hà, is a celebrated Vietnamese poem in classical Chinese asserting the country's sovereignty, regarded as Vietnam's first written declaration of independence.

Song of Gaixia

The Song of Gaixia (垓下歌) is a four-line Chu song attributed to Xiang Yu, composed before his final defeat at the battle of Gaixia in 202 BC.

Song of Lei Feng

Song of Lei Feng (雷锋之歌) is a long political lyric poem by He Jingzhi, first published in China Youth Daily in 1963 in praise of soldier Lei Feng.

Song of Myself

"Song of Myself" is Walt Whitman's long free-verse poem, first published untitled in 1855 in Leaves of Grass, renamed "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" in 1856 and "Walt Whitman" in 1860, and given its present title in the 1881 edition.

Song of Solomon (novel)

Toni Morrison's third novel, Song of Solomon (Knopf, 1977), follows Milkman Dead from Michigan to Virginia, using the flying-Africans folktale; it won the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.

Song of the Artemisia

Song of the Artemisia (Haoli, 蒿里) is a short Han dynasty Chinese funeral dirge, sung by coffin-pullers at burials and preserved in Guo Maoqian's Collection of Yuefu Poetry.

Song of the Chile

The Song of the Chile (敕勒歌, Chìlè Gē) is a 27-character Northern Dynasties folk song describing the grassland below the Yin Mountains, preserved in the Collection of Yuefu Poetry.

Song of the Great Wind

The Song of the Great Wind (Dafeng ge, 大風歌) is a three-line song attributed to Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, sung at his home village of Pei in 195 BCE.

Song of the Open Road

"Song of the Open Road" is an 1856 Walt Whitman poem, later retitled from "Poem of the Road," celebrating freedom and the journey along a public road.