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The Silver Dream of Salomea
The Silver Dream of Salomea (Sen srebrny Salomei) is an 1843 drama by Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, set in Ukraine during the peasant uprising of 1768.
The Silver World
The Silver World (Eunsegye) is a 1908 Korean new novel by Yi In-jik whose stage adaptation at Wongaksa that year was Korea's first new drama performance.
The Simple Art of Murder
The Simple Art of Murder: Raymond Chandler's December 1944 Atlantic Monthly essay attacking the British puzzle whodunit and defining the hard-boiled detective, also the title of his 1950 Houghton Mifflin collection of that essay plus eight pulp stories.
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai (Haishang hua liezhuan) is an 1894 novel by Han Bangqing, written largely in Wu dialect and set in Shanghai's courtesan houses.
The Sixth Book of Genius: Romance of the Western Chamber
The Sixth Book of Genius: Romance of the Western Chamber (Diliu caizi shu Xixiang ji) is Jin Shengtan's 1656 commentary edition of the Yuan play Xixiang ji.
The Sixth Floor of the Five-Story House
The Sixth Floor of the Five-Story House (Beşmərtəbəli evin altıncı mərtəbəsi) is a 1981 novel by Azerbaijani writer Anar about the lovers Zaur and Tahmina.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. is a collection of 34 essays and short stories by Washington Irving, published serially in 1819 and 1820 under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon.
The Slap
The Slap is a 2008 novel by the Greek-Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas, tracing the fallout after a man slaps a child at a suburban Melbourne barbecue.
The Slave
The Slave (Yiddish: Der Knecht, דער קנעכט) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, originally written in Yiddish and published in English translation in 1962 by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy.
The Slave Girl
The Slave Girl is a 1977 novel by Nigerian-born British writer Buchi Emecheta, her fourth, following Ogbanje Ojebeta, an Igbo girl sold into domestic slavery in colonial Nigeria.
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is Anne Rice's four-book erotic retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, published 1983-1985 as A. N. Roquelaure, with Beauty's Kingdom added in 2015 under her own name.
The Slippery Slope
The Slippery Slope (2003) is the tenth novel in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, following the Baudelaire orphans in the Mortmain Mountains as Violet and Klaus try to rescue Sunny from Count Olaf.
The Smell of Apples
The Smell of Apples (Die reuk van appels) is a debut novel by South African writer Mark Behr, published in Afrikaans in 1993 and in English in 1995.
The Smurfs
The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) are Peyo's Belgian comic characters, blue and three apples tall, first appearing 23 October 1958 in Spirou, later stars of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Sony and Paramount films, and the Nickelodeon series.
The Snake's Skin
The Snake's Skin (გველის პერანგი) is a 1925 modernist novel by the Georgian writer Grigol Robakidze, conceived in Iran in 1917 and regarded as a cornerstone of Georgian literary modernism.
The Sneetches and Other Stories
The Sneetches and Other Stories is Dr. Seuss's 1961 Random House collection of four verse stories, led by "The Sneetches," an allegory of prejudice and arbitrary markers exploited by Sylvester McMonkey McBean.
The Snow Man
"The Snow Man" is a fifteen-line poem by Wallace Stevens, first published in 1921, asking what it takes to see a winter landscape without projecting human emotion onto it.
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen (Danish: Sneedronningen/Snedronningen) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 literary fairy tale in seven stories, in which Gerda rescues Kay from the Snow Queen's palace by thawing his heart with her tears.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)
Hemingway short story first published in Esquire, August 1936, subtitled "A long story"; about Harry, a writer dying of gangrene on safari; reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1937 and filmed in 1952 with Gregory Peck.
The Solid Mandala
The Solid Mandala is a 1966 novel by the Australian writer Patrick White about the twin brothers Waldo and Arthur Brown, set in the fictional Sydney suburb of Sarsaparilla.
The Solitaire Mystery
The Solitaire Mystery (Kabalmysteriet) is a 1990 philosophical fantasy novel for young readers by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, written before Sophie's World and translated into about thirty languages.
The Solitary Reaper
The Solitary Reaper is a 32-line William Wordsworth lyric, composed November 1805 and published in Poems in Two Volumes (1807), about a Gaelic-singing Highland woman reaping alone, sourced from Thomas Wilkinson's Scottish tour manuscript.
The Son of a Servant
The Son of a Servant (Tjänstekvinnans son) is an 1886 autobiographical novel series in four parts by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, following protagonist Johan from childhood to artistic maturity.
The Son of Neptune
The Son of Neptune, 2011 novel by Rick Riordan, book 2 of The Heroes of Olympus: amnesiac Percy Jackson joins Roman demigods Hazel and Frank at Camp Jupiter on a quest to free Thanatos from Alaska.
The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles, a 2011 debut novel by Madeline Miller, retells the Trojan War from Homer's Iliad through Patroclus, covering their entire journey from boyhood to Troy.
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Chang hen ge, 长恨歌) is a 1995 novel by Wang Anyi that follows Shanghai woman Wang Qiyao from the 1940s to the 1980s.
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow's 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter, retells Ojibwe legends collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as the life of Hiawatha and Minnehaha; its hero conflates the Iroquois leader Hiawatha with Nanabozho.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) is a late eleventh-century Old French epic poem about Roland's betrayal and death at Roncevaux and Charlemagne's vengeance.
The Song of the Bell
The Song of the Bell (Das Lied von der Glocke) is an 1799 ballad by Friedrich Schiller that sets the casting of a bronze bell against human life.
The Song of the Cid
The Song of the Cid (Cantar de mio Cid) is an anonymous medieval Castilian epic poem about the exile and restored honor of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid.