The authors, A to Z
Authors whose surname starts with S
32 authors · every book free in PDF & EPUB
❦ Sorted by surname, the librarian's way — that's why William Shakespeare lives here under S, not under W.
Rafael Sabatini
1875–1950 · Italy – United Kingdom
Swashbuckling honor, intrigue, and repartee at full sail with moral clarity.
Saki
1870–1916
Dorothy L. Sayers
1893–1957 · United Kingdom
Golden Age mystery with logic, theology, and style woven into fair play.
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788–1860 · Germany
Philosophy of will, suffering, and art; lucid style with dark clarity and wit.
Walter Scott
1771–1832 · United Kingdom
Founder of the historical novel; nation memory and honor turned into brisk story.
Anna Sewell
1820–1878 · United Kingdom
Empathy for animals and people; kindness as design in daily life.
William Shakespeare
1564–1616 · United Kingdom
Electric language and living characters; forms that still teach rhythm, wit, and range.
George Bernard Shaw
1856–1950 · Ireland
Debate on a stage; satire and moral pressure that move people not just lines.
Mary Shelley
1797–1851 · United Kingdom
A pioneering imagination about creation, care, and responsibility in the age of making life.
Murasaki Shikibu
973–1014 · Japan
Courtly novel of perception; time, love, and politics traced in refined detail.
Florence Scovel Shinn
1871–1940 · United States
New Thought classic on attention, words, and action; simple rules for daily practice.
Upton Sinclair
1878–1968 · United States
Muckraking energy that links factory, family, and law; narrative built to move policy.
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Laurence Sterne
Playful structure and bold digression that invented modern meta fiction.
Adam Smith
1723–1790 · United Kingdom
Clear economics and moral philosophy; markets, sympathy, and institutions in balance.
Joseph Smith
1805–1844 · United States
Foundational texts and sermons of a new religious movement; community, law, and vision.
Tobias Smollett
1721–1771 · United Kingdom
Riotous picaresque and travel; medicine, misrule, and comedy on the road.
Sophocles
-497–-406 · Greece
Tragedy with clear ethics; fate choice and speech tested in public.
Johanna Spyri
1827–1901 · Switzerland
Alpine warmth resilience and care; a child and her circle learning how place and kinship heal.
Gertrude Stein
1874–1946 · United States
Radical syntax and attention that reset modern prose and portraiture.
John Steinbeck
1902–1968 · United States
California's great chronicler of the dispossessed — caught here at the very start, chasing pirate gold.
Stendhal
1783–1842 · France
Speed irony and psychology; ambition measured against love and power.
Laurence Sterne
1713–1768 · Ireland – United Kingdom
Playful structure and bold digression that invented modern meta fiction.
Wallace Stevens
1879–1955 · United States
Philosophical lyric where imagination meets the real; crisp images and thinking music.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850–1894 · United Kingdom
Adventure with psychological bite and elegant pace; bright islands and darker streets.
St. George William Joseph Stock
1850 · United Kingdom
Classical philosophy explained plainly; clear gateways into Greek schools and ideas.
Frank R. Stockton
1834–1902
Bram Stoker
1847–1912 · Ireland
Folklore meets science in a case file horror about consent, contagion, and belief.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811–1896 · United States
Vivid moral urgency; fiction that changed public feeling about slavery and law.
August Strindberg
1849–1912 · Sweden
Nerves truth and experiment; modern drama that tests gender class and power.
Arthur Stringer
1874–1950 · Canada
Fast adventure and mystery with modern snap; clean stakes and city savvy.
Suetonius
69–122 · Italy
Imperial biographies that mix archive gossip and sharp notes; the origin of profile culture.
Sun Tzu
-544–-496 · China
Clear strategy maxims about time, terrain, and perception beyond the battlefield.
Jonathan Swift
1667–1745 · Ireland
Satire with cold clarity; reason sharpened against pride power and fad.
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