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Sword of Honour

Sword of Honour is Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of Second World War novels, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender, following the disillusioned Catholic officer Guy Crouchback.

Swordheart

Swordheart is a 2018 fantasy romance novel by T. Kingfisher, pen name of Ursula Vernon, about a widow who inherits an enchanted sword holding an immortal warrior.

Syair Abdul Muluk

Syair Abdul Muluk, also Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk, is a nineteenth-century Malay narrative poem in which Siti Rafi'ah disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband, becoming an early Malay bestseller.

Syair Bidasari

Syair Bidasari is an anonymous classical Malay romantic narrative poem, an estimated 1750 work of about 7,000 verses telling of a maiden whose life resides in a golden fish.

Syair Burung Pingai

Syair Burung Pingai, also titled Thair al-'Uryan, is a Malay Sufi poem by Hamzah Fansuri casting the soul's search for God as a colloquy of birds.

Syair Perahu

Syair Perahu, "Poem of the Boat," is the name of two Malay Sufi poems using the ship as a metaphor for the soul's voyage toward God.

Syair Perang Mengkasar

Syair Perang Mengkasar is a Malay war poem by Encik Amin describing the Makassar War of 1666 to 1669, in which the VOC defeated Sultan Hasanuddin.

Syair Singapura Terbakar

Syair Singapura Terbakar ("The Burning of Singapore") is a Malay syair by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi recording Singapore's great fire of 1830, published in 1843.

Syair Siti Zubaidah

Syair Siti Zubaidah, also called Syair Siti Zubaidah Perang China, is an anonymous Malay narrative poem in which the heroine disguises herself as a man to rescue her captive husband.

Sybil (Schreiber book)

Sybil (1973), Flora Rheta Schreiber's bestselling account of Shirley Mason's sixteen personalities and psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur, shaped the MPD/DID diagnosis before being exposed as largely fabricated.

Sybil, or The Two Nations

Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli portraying England divided into two nations, the rich and the poor, against the background of the Chartist movement.

Syphilis sive morbus gallicus

Syphilis sive morbus gallicus is a three-book Latin didactic poem by the Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro, printed at Verona in 1530 and famous for coining the word syphilis.

Szabadság, szerelem

Szabadság, szerelem ("Liberty and love") is a six-line poem written by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi in 1847, declaring he would sacrifice life for love and love for freedom.

Szondi's Two Squires

Szondi's Two Squires (Hungarian: Szondi két apródja) is an 1856 historical ballad by János Arany recalling the 1552 Ottoman siege of Drégely castle and its two captive young singers.

Szózat

Szózat ("Appeal" or "Summons") is an 1836 patriotic poem by the Hungarian poet Vörösmarty Mihály, regarded in Hungary as a de facto second national anthem alongside the Himnusz.

T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize is an annual £25,000 poetry award for the best new collection published in the UK and Ireland, founded in 1993 by the Poetry Book Society.

Ta'amr

Ta'amr, known as Taʾammərä Māryām or Miracles of Mary, is a Geʿez collection of miracle stories about the Virgin Mary, translated into Ethiopic in the late 14th century.

Ta'iyyat al-Kubra

Ta'iyyat al-Kubra, also known as Nazm al-Suluk, is a 761-verse Sufi poem by the Egyptian poet 'Umar Ibn al-Farid describing the mystic's ascent toward union with the divine Beloved.

Tabaré

Tabaré is an epic poem by the Uruguayan poet Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, first published in 1888, telling the story of a mestizo hero among the Charrúa people facing Spanish conquest.

Table for Two

Table for Two: Fictions is Amor Towles's 2024 Viking collection of six New York short stories and the novella Eve in Hollywood, continuing Evelyn Ross from Rules of Civility in 1938 Hollywood; a New York Times bestseller.

Table of contents

Table of contents: a document-ordered list of part titles with page-number locators, serving as a paratext finding device; distinct from an index, formatted per Chicago rules, and encoded in EPUB toc nav or NCX.

Taboo Charming Mother (艶母)

Taboo Charming Mother (艶母, Enbo), also called Erotic Heart Mother, is a 1998-1999 adult manga by Tsuzuru Miyabi serialized in Comic Dolphin, adapted into a six-episode Big Wing/Milky OVA released 2003-2005, licensed in the US by JapanAnime.

Tachikawa Bunko

Tachikawa Bunko (立川文庫, correctly read Tatsukawa Bunko) was a series of about 200 small, inexpensive storybooks published in Osaka from 1911 to 1924, whose ninja hero Sarutobi Sasuke shaped the popular image of the ninja.

Tackle!

Tackle! (2023) is Jilly Cooper's final Rutshire Chronicles novel, the 11th in the series, in which Rupert Campbell-Black buys the football club Searston Rovers while his wife Taggie has cancer treatment. Published by Bantam Press.

Tad Williams bibliography

Tad Williams bibliography: complete works of US fantasy author Robert Paul Williams (born 1957), from Tailchaser's Song (1985) through Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Otherland, Shadowmarch, The Last King of Osten Ard, and the new Flan's Crows series.

Tahir and Zuhra

Tahir and Zuhra (Tahir və Zöhrə) is a tragic love dastan of the Turkic peoples, telling of betrothed lovers separated by the girl's father, the padishah.

Tahir ile Zühre

Tahir ile Zühre (Tâhir ile Zühre) is a Turkish folk tale of tragic love between a vizier's son and a sultan's daughter, known since the 16th century.

Tahkemoni

The Tahkemoni (ספר תחכמוני, Sefer Taḥkemoni) is a collection of fifty Hebrew maqamas by the Spanish-Jewish poet Judah al-Harizi, written in the early thirteenth century.

Tai-Pan (大班) (novel)

Tai-Pan (大班), James Clavell's 1966 historical novel and Asian Saga book 2, is set in 1841 Hong Kong and follows trader Dirk Struan's rivalry with Tyler Brock; loosely based on Jardine Matheson and Butterfield & Swire, adapted as a 1986 film.

Taika's Reason

Taika's Reason (Taika no Risei, タイカの理性) is Paru Itagaki's manga serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion from January 2025, set in near-future Japan where pets are humanized against declining birthrates; Ao hides her father's body beside her pit bull Taika, then he is humanized.