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authors’ names beginning with “S”

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Gustav Sack

Im Heu

Saki (1870–1916)

Dusk

J. D. Salinger (*1919)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
For Esmé – With Love and Squalor
[Departure from Pensey] [= chapter 8 in The Catcher in the Rye] (1951)

William Saroyan (1908–1981)

There Was a Young Lady of Perth

Július Satinský (1941–2002) [aka Julius Satinsky]

Moji milí Slováci (1991)
[fejtóny]
[(& Milan Lasica) dialógy]
[(& Milan Lasica) poviedky]
Dvadsiaty piaty list Slovákom, v ktorom je reč o tom, či čítame (1991)
- kompletný text / full text [11 KB]
Fascinujúce dedinské prízemné domčeky (1998)
Národná odroda
Peniaze nerastú nadivoko
[Posledné interview (& Jozef Dado Nagy)] (2002)
- kompletný text / full text [15 KB]
Príbuzní na cintorínoch
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations]

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)

Murder at Pentecost

Paul Scheerbart

Rakkóx der Billionär

Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)

Kabale und Liebe (1784)
Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1801)
[verschiedene]

Arno Schmidt (1914–1979)

Geschichten von der Insel Mann

Rolf Schneider (*1932)

Imagination

Sascha Schneider (1870–1927; siehe Kommentar)

Titelbild zu Karl Mays Durchs Wilde Kurdistan (um 1905; klein [9 KB] / groß [133 KB])
Titelbild zu Karl Mays Am Rio de la Plata (1904; klein [20 KB] / groß [149 KB])
8 weitere Illustrationen
[28 Illustrationen bei der Karl-May-Gesellschaft]

Wolf Schneider (*1925)

Deutsch für Profis (1984)
Deutsch für Kenner (1987)
Deutsch fürs Leben (1994)
Der vierstöckige Hausbesitzer (1994)
(Hrsg.) Unsere tägliche Desinformation (1984)
Bürgermeister mit Jeans-Komponente
Satzbau im Sekundentakt
Sohn Josef auf Pferd Otto
Die Teufelskralle der Abstraktion
Viel Gegacker, wenig Eier
[zitiert von Wolf Schneider]

Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931)

Leutnant Gustl

Karl Schönherr (1867–1943)

Henkermahl

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde (1813/1847)
Ueber das Sehn und die Farben (1816/1854)
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung I (1818/1844/1859)
- Vorrede zur ersten Auflage (1818)
  - Volltext / full text [22 KB + 3 KB]
- Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage (1844)
  - Volltext / full text [35 KB + 4 KB]
- Vorrede zur dritten Auflage (1859)
  - Volltext / full text [9 KB + 3 KB]
- Volltext / full text 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [ 6.0 MB external links – DISCLAIMER ]
- Auszüge im Volltext (Deutsch) / German extracts in full text [ external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Ueber den Willen in der Natur (1835/1854)
Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik (1840/1860)
- Preisschrift über die Freiheit des Willens (1840/1860)
- Preisschrift über die Grundlage der Moral (1840/1860)
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung II (1844/1859)
- Volltext / full text 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 [ 6.5 MB external links – DISCLAIMER ]
  - chapters 40–50 in Russian full text [ 215 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Parerga und Paralipomena I (1851)
- Fragmente zur Geschichte der Philosophie (1851)
- Versuch über das Geistersehn und was damit zusammenhängt (1851)
- Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (1851)
Parerga und Paralipomena II (1851)
- English extracts in full text [ external link – DISCLAIMER ]
  - Russian extracts in full text [ external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Den Intellekt überhaupt und in jeder Beziehung betreffende Gedanken (1851)
Einige archäologische Betrachtungen (1851)
Einige Betrachtungen über den Gegensatz des Dinges an sich und der Erscheinung (1851)
Einige mythologische Betrachtungen (1851)
Einige Verse (1851)
Einige Worte über den Pantheismus (1851)
Einiges zur Sanskritlitteratur (1851)
Gleichnisse, Parabeln und Fabeln (1851)
Nachträge zur Lehre vom Leiden der Welt (1851)
Nachträge zur Lehre von der Bejahung und Verneinung des Willens zum Leben (1851)
Nachträge zur Lehre von der Nichtigkeit des Daseyns (1851)
Psychologische Bemerkungen (1851)
Selbstdenken (1851)
- Volltext / full text [24 KB + 3 KB]
Skitze einer Geschichte der Lehre vom Idealen und Realen (1851)
Transscendente Spekulation über die anscheinende Absichtlichkeit im Schicksale des Einzelnen (1851)
Ueber den Selbstmord (1851)
Ueber die Universitäts-Philosophie (1851)
Ueber die Weiber (1851)
- Volltext / full text [25 KB + 5 KB]
Ueber Erziehung (1851)
Ueber Gelehrsamkeit und Gelehrte (1851)
Ueber Lerm und Geräusch (1851)
- Volltext / full text [13 KB]
  - English full text [ 11 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Ueber Lesen und Bücher (1851)
- Volltext / full text [20 KB + 3 KB]
Ueber Philosophie und ihre Methode (1851)
Ueber Religion (1851)
Ueber Schriftstellerei und Stil (1851)
- Volltext / full text [84 KB + 12 KB]
Ueber Sprache und Worte (1851)
Ueber Urtheil, Kritik, Beifall und Ruhm (1851)
Zur Ethik (1851)
Zur Farbenlehre (1851)
Zur Lehre von der Unzerstörbarkeit unseres wahren Wesens durch den Tod (1851)
Zur Logik und Dialektik (1851)
Zur Methaphysik des Schönen und Aesthetik (1851)
Zur Philosophie und Wissenschaft der Natur (1851)
Zur Physiognomik (1851)
- Volltext / full text [23 KB + 4 KB]
Zur Rechtslehre und Politik (1851)
[Mottos für Avenarius’ Zitatenbuch: a, b, c]
[zitiert von Arthur Schopenhauer:]
- Ludovico Ariosto
- Aristoteles (a, b, c)
- Biblia
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (a, b)
- Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (a, b, c, d)
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Hesiod
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (a, b, c, d)
- Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy
- Jean de La Bruyère
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Francesco Petrarca (a, b)
- Gaius Plinius Secundus „der Ältere“
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (a, b)
- Friedrich von Schiller
- William Shakespeare
- Friedrich Taubmann
- Voltaire

Robert Schuller (*19..)

[Sermon on Phil 1:7 (broadcast on NBC Europe on 9 February 1997)]

Anna Seghers (1800–1983)

Das Schilfrohr

Judy & Jim Sellner

Falling in Love for Keeps

Seneca (4? bce–65 ce) [aka Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger; d. J., der Jüngere]

[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations]

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Romeo and Juliet (1595)
[tr] King Henry IV, Part II (1598)
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1601)
Othello (1604)
Sonnet XVIII
Sonnet CXXIX

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Blaming the Bard (1896)
[various]

Irvin Shaw (1913–1984)

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
In the French Style

Jane Smiley (*1949)

A Thousand Acres (1991)

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations]

Socrates (470–399 bce) [aka Sokrates, Socrate]

[various]

Steve Solomon (*19..; see author’s homepage)

The Wisdom of Solomon
- full text [ 13 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]

Anton Srholec (*19..)

[rôzne]

Wilbur Daniel Steele (1886–1970)

How Beautiful With Shoes (1932)

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)

The Blue-Winged Teal

John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

Tortilla Flat (1935)
The Harness

Stanislav Štepka (*1944)

Loď svet (1988)
Vygumuj a napíš (1989)
Delostrelci na mesiaci (1992)
Dohoda možná (1994)

Carl Sternheim (1878–1942)

Busekow

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

The Body-Snatcher

Hans Joachim Störig

Kleine Weltgeschichte der Philosophie (1950/1990:xv)
[zitiert von Hans Joachim Störig]

Rex Stout (1886–1975; view special bio page [100 KB])

Her Forbidden Knight (1913)
Under the Andes (1914)
- full text [ 504 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
A Prize for Princes (1914)
The Great Legend (1916)
How Like a God (1929)
Seed on the Wind (1930)
Golden Remedy (1931)
Forest Fire (1933)
The President Vanishes (1934)
Fer-de-Lance (1934) [95 KB + 14 KB]
O Careless Love! (1935)
A Question of Proof (1935)
The League of Frightened Men (1935)
The Rubber Band (1936)
The Red Box (1937)
The Hand in the Glove (1937)
Too Many Cooks (1938) [39 KB + 6 KB]
Mr. Cinderella (1938)
Some Buried Caesar (1939)
Red Threads (1939)
Double for Death (1939)
The Mountain Cat Murders (1939)
Over My Dead Body (1940)
Where There’s a Will (1940)
Bad for Business (1940)
The Broken Vase (1941)
The Sound of Murder (1941) [aka Alphabet Hicks]
Black Orchids (1942)
Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
The Silent Speaker (1946)
Too Many Women (1947)
And Be a Villain (1948)
The Second Confession (1949)
Trouble in Triplicate (1949)
In the Best Families (1950)
Three Doors to Death (1950)
Murder by the Book (1951)
Curtains for Three (1951)
Prisoner’s Base (1952)
Triple Jeopardy (1952)
The Golden Spiders (1953)
The Black Mountain (1954) [11 KB]
Three Men Out (1954)
Before Midnight (1955)
Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
Three Witnesses (1956)
If Death Ever Slept (1957)
Three for the Chair (1957)
Champagne for One (1958)
And Four To Go (1958)
Plot It Yourself (1959) [aka Murder in Style]
Too Many Clients (1960)
Three at Wolfe’s Door (1960)
The Final Deduction (1961)
Gambit (1962)
Homicide Trinity (1962)
The Mother Hunt (1963)
A Right To Die (1964)
Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964)
The Doorbell Rang (1965)
Death of a Doxy (1966)
The Father Hunt (1968)
Death of a Dude (1969)
Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
A Family Affair (1975)
[Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe] (1977)
[Justice Ends at Home, and Other Stories] (1977)
[Death Times Three] (1985)
(ed.) The Illustrious Dunderheads (1942)
(ed.) Rue Morge, No. 1 (1946)
(& editors of Viking Press) The Nero Wolfe Cookbook (1973)
An Agacella Or (1914)
- full text [ 24 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Assault on a Brownstone ([1959]/1985)
Before I Die (1947/1949)
Bitter End (1940/1977[1985])
Black Orchids (1942)
Blood Will Tell (1963/1964)
Booby Trap (1944)
Bullet for One (1948/1950)
By His Own Hand (1955) [aka Curtain Line]
Christmas Party (1957/1958)
The Cop-Killer (1951/1952)
Cordially Invited to Meet Death (1942)
Counterfeit for Murder (1959/1962)
Death of a Demon (1961/1962)
Die Like a Dog (1954/1956)
Disguise for Murder (1950)
Door to Death (1949/1950)
Easter Parade (1957/1958)
Eeny Meeny Murder Mo (1962)
Fourth of July Picnic (1957/1958)
Frame-Up for Murder (1958/1985)
The Gun with Wings (1949/1950)
Heels of Fate
Help Wanted, Male (1945/1949)
Home to Roost (1952)
Immune to Murder (1955/1957)
Instead of Evidence (1946/1949)
Invitation to Murder (1942/1954)
Jonathan Stannard’s Secret Vice (1915)
- full text [ 22 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Justice Ends at Home
Kill Now – Pay Later (1962/1964)
The Lie
Man Alive (1947/1950)
Method Three for Murder (1960)
Méthode Américaine
The Mother of Invention (1913)
- full text [ 19 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Murder Is Corny (1962/1964)
Murder Is No Joke (1958)
The Next Witness (1955/1956)
Not Quite Dead Enough (1942/1944)
An Officer and a Lady (1917)
- full text [ 26 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Omit Flowers (1948/1950)
Pamfret and Peace
The Pay Yeoman (1914)
- full text [ 22 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Poison a la Carte (1960)
A Professional Recall
The Rodeo Murder (1960)
The Rope Dance (1916)
- full text [ 38 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Rose Orchid (1914)
- full text [ 27 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Secrets
The Squirt and the Monkey (1951/1952)
This Won’t Kill You (1952/1954)
Too Many Detectives (1956/1957)
Tough Cop’s Gift (1953) [aka Santa Claus Beat aka Christmas Beat aka Nobody Deserved Justice]
A Tyrant Abdicates (1914)
- full text [ 14 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Warner and Wife (1915)
- full text [ 73 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
Watson Was a Woman (1941)
- full text [ 19 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
When a Man Murders (1954/1956)
Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids (1963/1977)
- full text [ 11 KB external link – DISCLAIMER ]
A Window for Death (1956/1957)
The Zero Clue (1953/1954)
[various]
- <Rex Stout’s Top 10 Favourite Mysteries> (1938-47?/1951/1956)
- An Informal Interview with Rex Stout ([1973]/1977)
[mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations: a, b, c, d, e, f, g]
[Rex Stout’s Worst quotations]
[Rex Stout on the Information, Please radio quiz show (29 August 1939)]
- full-length audio file [28 minutes, 25 seconds / 6.50 MB]
  - Rex Stout on Sherlock Holmes stories [4 minutes, 24 seconds / 1.76 MB]
  - Rex Stout on beards and moustaches [2 minutes, 35 seconds / 1.03 MB]
[videoclips]
- Nero Wolfe played by Tino Buazzelli [6 seconds / 714 KB external link – DISCLAIMER]
- Archie Goodwin played by Paolo Ferrari [6 seconds / 750 KB external link – DISCLAIMER]
[quoted by Rex Stout]
[about Rex Stout:]
- obituary in ›Long Island Press‹ [full text]
- Reading Nero Wolfe Stories On the Internet? [77 KB]
- Looking for Wolfe (wording from August 2004) [15 KB]
  - Looking for Wolfe (wording from January 2004) [13 KB]
- recommended secondary literature
- miscellaneous Internet links
- discussion mailing lists

August Stramm (1874–1915)

Warten

Erwin Strittmatter (1912–19..)

Die Katze und der Mann

William Strunk Jr. (18..–19..)

(& E. B. White) The Elements of Style (1935/1972:iii)
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations]
[quoted by William Strunk Jr.]

Ján Sucháň (*19..)

[rôzne]
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations]

Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928)

Die Reise nach Tilsit

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver... (1726)

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