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The Sword and the Spear
The Sword and the Spear (A Espada e a Azagaia) is a 2016 historical novel by Mia Couto about a romance in 1895 Mozambique, second in his Sands of the Emperor trilogy.
The Sword of Shannara
The Sword of Shannara is Terry Brooks's 1977 debut epic fantasy novel, the first Del Rey Books title and the first fantasy novel on the NYT bestseller list; it launched the 20+-book Shannara saga.
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy is Terry Brooks' original Shannara series: The Sword of Shannara (1977), The Elfstones of Shannara (1982), and The Wishsong of Shannara (1985), the first Del Rey Books title and a landmark of commercial epic fantasy.
The Sword of Truth
The Sword of Truth is Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series (17 volumes, from Wizard's First Rule, 1994) about Seeker Richard Cypher, Confessor Kahlan Amnell, and wizard Zedd; adapted as Legend of the Seeker (2008–2010).
The Sympathizer
The Sympathizer is Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2015 Grove Press debut novel, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, told as the confession of a nameless half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent, adapted as a 2024 HBO miniseries.
The Sympathizer (miniseries)
The Sympathizer (Cảm tình viên) is a 2024 seven-episode HBO/A24 limited series adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-winning 2015 novel, co-created by Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, starring Hoa Xuande as a half-French Vietnamese spy and Robert Downey Jr. in four roles, premiering April 14, 2024.
The Tainted Cup
The Tainted Cup, a 2024 fantasy mystery by Robert Jackson Bennett, opens the Ana and Din Mysteries (Shadow of the Leviathan). Detective Ana Dolabra and memory-altered assistant Dinios Kol investigate murders in a biopunk empire behind sea walls; it won the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
The Takase Boat
The Takase Boat (Takasebune) is a 1916 short story by Mori Ōgai about a mercy killing, set on a boat carrying an exile from Kyoto.
The Take (TV series)
The Take, also known as Martina Cole's The Take, is a four-part British crime miniseries broadcast on Sky1 in 2009, starring Tom Hardy as East End criminal Freddie Jackson.
The Tale of Amiran
The Tale of Amiran (Georgian: Amiraniani) is a pre-Christian Georgian folk epic, transmitted orally in many regional versions, about the hero Amirani, who is punished with eternal trials for defying the gods.
The Tale of Chunhyang
The Story of Chunhyang (춘향전, Chunhyangjeon) is an anonymous Korean classical novel telling how Chunhyang, daughter of a gisaeng, and Yi Mongryong, a magistrate's son, sustain their love across status lines in late Joseon Namwon.
The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Despereaux is Kate DiCamillo's 2003 Candlewick children's fantasy about a mouse who loves Princess Pea, the rat Roscuro, and serving girl Miggery Sow; it won the 2004 Newbery Medal and was adapted as a 2008 Universal animated film.
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat (Повесть о Евпатии Коловрате) is an Old Russian episode about the Ryazan boyar Evpatiy Kolovrat fighting Batu's army after Ryazan fell in 1237.
The Tale of Genji (源氏物語)
The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari) is a 54-chapter Heian court tale by Murasaki Shikibu, written around 1008, often called the world's first novel, centered on Prince Genji and his descendants.
The Tale of Heungbu
The Tale of Heungbu (흥부전, Heungbu-jeon; also Heungbu and Nolbu) is a Korean pansori-based novel of the late Joseon period about kindhearted Heungbu and his greedy brother Nolbu.
The Tale of Hoa Tiên
The Tale of Hoa Tiên (Truyện Hoa Tiên) is an 18th-century Vietnamese verse novel by Nguyễn Huy Tự, written in Nôm script in lục bát meter.
The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich (Повесть о том, как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем) is a satirical 1833 novella by Nikolai Gogol.
The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu
The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu is a Tang dynasty tale by Jiang Fang about the poet Li Yi and the abandoned courtesan Huo Xiaoyu, who dies of grief.
The Tale of Jeon Uchi
The Tale of Jeon Uchi (전우치전, Jeon Uchi-jeon) is a classical Korean novel of unknown authorship about a Joseon trickster whose Taoist magic mocks the powerful and corrupt.
The Tale of Kieu
The Tale of Kieu (Truyện Kiều, Đoạn Trường Tân Thanh) is a 3,254-line lục bát verse epic by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Du (1765–1820), written in Nôm script and adapted from the Chinese novel Jin Yun Qiao; no definitive text exists, and it has been translated into over 20 languages.
The Tale of Li Wa
The Tale of Li Wa (Li Wa zhuan) is a Tang dynasty Chinese tale by Bai Xingjian about a scholar who falls in love with the Chang'an courtesan Li Wa and marries her.
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên (Truyện Lục Vân Tiên) is a Vietnamese verse narrative in the lục bát meter, written by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu in the early 1850s.
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm verse narrative in lục bát meter, adapted from a Chinese novel about the Mai and Trần families.
The Tale of Nie Yinniang
The Tale of Nie Yinniang is a Tang dynasty chuanqi tale about a female assassin, attributed to Pei Xing and preserved in the Taiping Guangji.
The Tale of Ochikubo
The Tale of Ochikubo (Ochikubo monogatari, 落窪物語) is an anonymous late-tenth-century Japanese tale in which a noblewoman mistreated by her stepmother marries a nobleman and takes revenge.
The Tale of Ondal
The Tale of Ondal (Ondaljeon, 온달전) is a Korean narrative about a poor, mocked young man who married Princess Pyeonggang, rose to become a Goguryeo general, and died in battle in 590.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is Beatrix Potter's 1902 picture book about a disobedient young rabbit in Mr McGregor's garden, first privately printed in 1901 after publisher rejections, with over 40 million copies sold.
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa (範公菊花) is a Vietnamese Nôm verse tale in lục bát meter, written roughly between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries.
The Tale of Phan Trần
The Tale of Phan Trần is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm-script verse romance, probably 18th or early 19th century, telling of lovers betrothed before birth who are separated by war.
The Tale of Ren Shi
The Tale of Ren Shi (Renshi zhuan, 任氏传) is a Tang dynasty chuanqi tale by Shen Jiji, written in 781, about a faithful fox spirit in Chang'an.