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The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valiant Merchant Kalashnikov is a narrative poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1837, often printed as Song about the Merchant Kalashnikov.
The Song of the Murdered Jewish People
The Song of the Murdered Jewish People is an epic poem of about 900 verses by Yitzhak Katzenelson, written in Yiddish at the Vittel internment camp in 1943 and 1944.
The Song of Wandering Aengus
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" is an 1897 lyric poem by W. B. Yeats, spoken by the Irish god Aengus, who searches his whole life for a vanishing girl.
The Songlines
The Songlines is a 1987 book by British writer Bruce Chatwin that blends travelogue, fiction, and anthropology in an account of Aboriginal dreaming tracks in central Australia.
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a 1915 verse novel by C. J. Dennis about Bill, a Melbourne larrikin who reforms for love of Doreen.
The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (أغاني مهيار الدمشقي) is a 1961 poetry collection by the Syrian poet Adonis, widely considered the apex of the Arab modernist movement.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), Goethe's 1797 ballad from Lucian's Philopseudes, about an apprentice whose animated broom floods the hall; basis of Dukas's 1897 scherzo and Disney's Fantasia.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)
L'apprenti sorcier, Dukas's 1897 symphonic scherzo after Goethe's Der Zauberlehrling and Lucian, premiered May 18, 1897; famed through Disney's Fantasia (1940) with Mickey Mouse as the apprentice; F minor, about 10–12 minutes.
The Sorrow of War
The Sorrow of War (Vietnamese: Nỗi buồn chiến tranh) is a 1990 novel by Vietnamese writer Bảo Ninh following a North Vietnamese veteran's postwar trauma.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe's epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), published anonymously in 1774 and revised in 1787, about Werther's fatal love for the engaged Lotte; a Sturm und Drang bestseller that sparked "Werther fever," bans, and the Werther effect.
The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine is a 1981 work of narrative nonfiction by Tracy Kidder about engineers building a Data General minicomputer; it won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize.
The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde, first published in the Fortnightly Review, arguing that abolishing private property enables true individualism.
The Soul of the Indian
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation is a 1911 book by Dakota physician and writer Charles Alexander Eastman, presenting Indian religious life before sustained European contact.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 essay collection by W. E. B. Du Bois that introduced "double consciousness" and critiqued Booker T. Washington.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner's 1929 modernist novel, tells the decline of the Compson family of Yoknapatawpha County in four sections narrated by Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and a Dilsey-centered finale.
The Sound of the Mountain
The Sound of the Mountain (山の音, Yama no oto) is a 1954 novel by Kawabata Yasunari about an aging Tokyo businessman, Ogata Shingo, and his family in postwar Japan.
The Sound of Waves
The Sound of Waves (Shiosai, 潮騒) is a 1954 novel by Yukio Mishima, a love story between a young fisherman and a shipowner's daughter on a small island in Ise Bay.
The Southern Vampire Mysteries
The Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse Novels) are Charlaine Harris's 13 urban fantasy mystery novels, 2001–2013, following telepathic Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse; basis for HBO's True Blood.
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God is Mary Rowlandson's 1682 captivity narrative about her eleven weeks as a captive of Indigenous forces during King Philip's War, the first published in English.
The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy is a revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd, written in the 1580s and first published in 1592, that established revenge tragedy on the English stage.
The Spider and the Fly (poem)
The Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt's 1829 children's cautionary poem (written 1828), in which a spider's flattery lures a vain fly to her doom; famous for "Will you walk into my parlour," parodied by Carroll and adapted in DiTerlizzi's 2003 Caldecott Honor book.
The Spider's Thread
The Spider's Thread (Kumo no ito) is a 1918 short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, his first children's work, retelling a Buddhist parable of a thief saved briefly from hell.
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a five-book children's fantasy series (2003–2004) by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black about the Grace children and Arthur Spiderwick's faerie field guide, followed by Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles and 2008 and 2024 screen adaptations.
The Splendid and the Vile
The Splendid and the Vile is Erik Larson's 2020 Crown narrative history of Winston Churchill's first year as prime minister, May 1940 to May 1941, during the London Blitz, built from diaries including Mary Churchill's and John Colville's.
The Spring to Come
The Spring to Come (Przedwiośnie) is a political novel by Stefan Żeromski, completed in 1924 and ranked among the most important Polish novels of the 20th century.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is John le Carré's 1963 Cold War spy novel (David Cornwell), third in the George Smiley series, published by Victor Gollancz, following agent Alec Leamas, a best seller adapted into the 1965 Richard Burton film.
The Stalin Epigram
The Stalin Epigram, known in Russia as "Epigram Against Stalin" (Эпиграмма на Сталина), is a satirical poem about Stalin by Osip Mandelstam, composed in November 1933.
The Stand
The Stand, Stephen King's 1978 post-apocalyptic novel (also The Complete and Uncut Edition, 1990), tells of the superflu Captain Trips and survivors choosing Mother Abagail's Boulder or Randall Flagg's Las Vegas; adapted for TV in 1994 and 2020.
The Star of August
The Star of August (نجمة أغسطس) is a 1974 novel by Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, his second, following a released political journalist at the Aswan High Dam site.
The Star of the Covenant
The Star of the Covenant (Der Stern des Bundes) is a 1914 cycle of 100 poems by Stefan George, published in Berlin weeks before the First World War.