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The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Danish: Den standhaftige Tinsoldat) is an 1838 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a one-legged tin soldier who loves a paper ballerina.
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives: Ira Levin's 1972 Random House feminist satirical thriller, 145 pages, in which Stepford husbands replace wives with robot duplicates; source of the 'Stepford wife' idiom and two film adaptations.
The Stillborn
The Stillborn is a 1984 novel by Nigerian writer Zaynab Alkali about three village women in Northern Nigeria, which won the Association of Nigerian Authors prose prize in 1985.
The Stone Angel
The Stone Angel is a 1964 novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Laurence, following ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley as she resists a nursing home and recalls her life in Manawaka, Manitoba.
The Stone Cross
The Stone Cross («Камінний хрест») is an 1900 novella by Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk about an elderly Galician peasant who leaves his land to emigrate to Canada.
The Stone of Laughter
The Stone of Laughter (Hajar al-Dahik) is a 1990 novel by the Lebanese writer Hoda Barakat, set in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and centered on a young man named Khalil.
The Stone on the Road
The Stone on the Road (Robo no ishi) is an unfinished novel by the Japanese writer Yamamoto Yuzo, serialized in the Asahi Shimbun in 1937.
The Stone Sky
The Stone Sky (2017) is the concluding novel of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, published by Orbit. It won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel, completing the first three-year consecutive Hugo sweep.
The Stone Sleeper
The Stone Sleeper (Kameni spavač) is a 1966 poetry collection by the Bosnian poet Mak Dizdar, his most important work, built from a poetic dialogue with medieval tombstones called stećci.
The Stone Virgins
The Stone Virgins is a 2002 novel by the Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera, her fifth and final, and the first to confront the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 collection of 61 short stories by the American writer John Cheever, spanning 1946 to 1975 and including "The Swimmer".
The Stormlight Archive
The Stormlight Archive is a fantasy novel series by Brandon Sanderson, beginning with The Way of Kings in 2010. Set on the storm-battered world of Roshar, it combines large-scale conflict with the.
The Story of a Life
The Story of a Life (Повесть о жизни) is a six-volume literary autobiography by Soviet Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky, considered his main work and written over 18 years.
The Story of an African Farm
The Story of an African Farm is an 1883 novel by South African writer Olive Schreiner, published as Ralph Iron, following Waldo, Em, and Lyndall on a Karoo farm.
The Story of an Hour
"The Story of an Hour" (1894) is Kate Chopin's short story, first published in Vogue as "The Dream of an Hour," in which Louise Mallard briefly experiences freedom after news of her husband's death, then dies when he returns alive.
The Story of Art
The Story of Art is a single-volume survey of art history by E. H. Gombrich, first published in 1950 and continuously in print, with about 8 million copies sold.
The Story of Ferdinand
The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson's 1936 Viking Press picture book, tells of a gentle Spanish bull who refuses to fight. Banned by Franco and burned by the Nazis, loved by Gandhi and the Roosevelts, adapted by Disney (1938) and Fox (2017).
The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon
The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon (장화홍련전) is a classical Korean novel in which two sisters, killed through their stepmother's scheming, return as ghosts seeking justice.
The Story of Little Black Sambo
The Story of Little Black Sambo, Helen Bannerman's 1899 Dumpy Book picture story written in India, its unauthorized American editions, the racist history of 'Sambo', and later retellings like Sam and the Tigers.
The Story of Liu Yi
The Story of Liu Yi (Liuyi zhuan, 柳毅傳) is a Tang dynasty tale by Li Chaowei in which a scholar carries a letter for an abused dragon princess.
The Story of My Experiments with Truth (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા)
The Story of My Experiments with Truth (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા) is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, written in Gujarati and published in 1927 and 1929.
The Story of the Golden Seal
Jinyin ji (金印记, The Gold Seal) is a Ming dynasty chuanqi drama attributed to Su Fuzhi, about the strategist Su Qin's rise to chancellor of six states.
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers is Maria Augusta von Trapp's 1949 Lippincott memoir of her marriage to Baron Georg von Trapp and the family's singing career, the basis for The Sound of Music.
The Story of the Washing Gauze
The Story of the Washing Gauze (Huan Sha Ji, 浣纱记) is a 45-scene Ming chuanqi play by Liang Chenyu, the earliest known staged with kunqu singing.
The Story of the Western Wing
Xixiang Ji (西厢记), known in English as "The Story of the Western Wing," is a Yuan-dynasty zaju play by Wang Shifu dramatizing the love of Zhang Junrui and Cui Yingying.
The Story of Yingying
The Story of Yingying (Yingying zhuan) is a Tang dynasty tale by Yuan Zhen about scholar Zhang Sheng's love affair with Cui Yingying, whom he abandons.
The Story of Zahra
The Story of Zahra (Ḥikāyat Zahra) is a 1980 novel by Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh about a young woman's life during the Lebanese Civil War.
The Storyteller (Picoult novel)
The Storyteller, also known as The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult, is a 2013 novel by the American writer Jodi Picoult, her first to take up the Holocaust.
The Strain
The Strain: 2009 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, first of the Strain Trilogy; vampirism spreads as a parasitic worm outbreak investigated at JFK by CDC's Ephraim Goodweather; basis of the 2014-2017 FX series and a 2027 Norwegian series.
The Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine: British monthly founded by George Newnes in January 1891, closed March 1950, famed for Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories; name revived by a US mystery quarterly in 1998 and a King's College London student magazine in 2017.