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Pai'an Jingqi
Pai'an Jingqi (Slapping the Table in Amazement) is a 1628 collection of forty vernacular short stories by Ling Mengchu, among the first written independently by a single literatus.
Palace-style poetry
Palace-style poetry (宮體詩, gongti shi) is a sensuous style of Chinese verse from the Liang dynasty court, centered on women's feelings and appearance and associated with the future Emperor Jianwen.
Paladin
Paladin: originally one of Charlemagne's twelve legendary knights (Twelve Peers) in the Song of Roland; from Latin palatinus, palace official; now a holy-warrior fantasy class in D&D and World of Warcraft.
Palantír
Palantír (plural palantíri), Tolkien's seeing-stones: seven dark crystal globes made by Fëanor, brought by Elendil from Númenor, used for far-seeing and thought-communication in The Lord of the Rings and named after by Palantir Technologies.
Palataka
Palataka (পলাতকা, meaning "the fugitive" or "the runaway") is a 1918 book of Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore, published by Visva-Bharati in Calcutta and known for poems written in a form close to prose.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 experimental novel (Putnam), presents John Shade's 999-line poem with foreword, commentary, and index by Charles Kinbote, exiled king of Zembla; a postmodern test case for theories of reading.
Palestinian novel
The Palestinian novel (الرواية الفلسطينية) is prose fiction by Palestinians, chiefly in Arabic, written since the early twentieth century inside Israel, the Occupied Territories, and the diaspora.
Palestinian short story
The Palestinian short story (القصة الفلسطينية القصيرة) is the body of short fiction written by Palestinian authors in Arabic, a genre that emerged in Palestine in the early twentieth century.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest: a writing surface reused after erasure, and a metaphor for layered texts. Covers the concept, Vidal's 1995 memoir Palimpsest, Valente's novel, Sjöblom's graphic memoir, and Battles' history.
Pallav
Pallav (पल्लव) is a Hindi poetry collection by Sumitranandan Pant, gathering 32 poems written between 1918 and 1925, with a preface regarded as the manifesto of Chhayavaad.
Palli Samaj
Palli Samaj (পল্লীসমাজ, "Village Society") is a 1916 Bengali novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, set in a caste-ridden village of colonial Bengal, whose educated protagonist Ramesh fails to reform it.
Pallishri
Pallishri (ପଲ୍ଲୀଶ୍ରୀ), rendered in English as The Village Graces, is a 1941 collection of Odia poetry by Sachidananda Routray portraying rural village life in Odisha.
Palnati Viracharitra
Palnati Viracharitra (పల్నాటి వీర చరిత్ర), also called Palnati Bharatam, is a Telugu narrative poem by the 15th-century poet Srinatha about a war among kin in Palnadu, Andhra Pradesh.
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Samuel Richardson's 1740 epistolary novel about maidservant Pamela Andrews and Mr. B, an instant bestseller that sparked the Pamela controversy and Fielding's Shamela.
Pamphlet
Pamphlet: a short unbound printed work of 4 to 96 pages, also called Flugschrift or foglio volante, used for cheap vernacular polemic from the 16th-century Reformation to Paine's Common Sense and modern protest campaigns.
Pan Cogito
Pan Cogito is the title character of a cycle of poems by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert and the name of his fifth poetry volume, published in 1974.
Pan Tadeusz
Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, first published in Paris in 1834 and regarded as the Polish national epic, set in Lithuania around 1811 and 1812.
Panchagram
Panchagram (পঞ্চগ্রাম, "Five Villages") is a 1944 Bengali novel by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, generally treated as the second part of Ganadevata, the combined work that won the 1966 Jnanpith Award.
Panchajanya
Panchajanya, in Hindu tradition the conch shell of the god Krishna, is also the name of literary works including Kuvempu's Kannada poems and a Bengali novel by Gajendrakumar Mitra.
Panchali Sabatham
Panchali Sabatham (பாஞ்சாலி சபதம், "Panchali's Vow") is a 1912 Tamil epic poem by Subramania Bharati that retells the Mahabharata dice game and disrobing as an allegory of India under British rule.
Pancharatra
Pancharatra (पञ्चरात्रम्, "Five Nights") is a three-act Sanskrit drama attributed to the ancient playwright Bhāsa, based on the Pandavas' year in disguise in the Mahābhārata's Virāta Parva.
Panchvati
Panchvati (पंचवटी) is a 1925 Hindi khanda kavya by Maithili Sharan Gupt, one of his best-known works, retelling the Ramayana's Shurpanaka episode in polished Khari Boli verse.
Pandava
Pandavas (पाण्डव), the five Mahabharata brothers of Pandu, Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadeva, born to Kunti and Madri via gods, Karna the hidden sixth, war with Kauravas, Kurukshetra victory.
Panditaradhya Charitra
Panditaradhya Charitra is a Telugu hagiographic poem in dvipada meter composed by Palkuriki Somanatha, telling the life of the Vīraśaiva saint Mallikarjuna Panditaradhya of Srisailam.
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (紅殻のパンドラ)
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (紅殻のパンドラ, Kōkaku no Pandora) is a cyberpunk comedy manga by Koshi Rikudou with concept by Masamune Shirow, set ten years before Ghost in the Shell; serialized 2012–2024 in 26 volumes, with a 12-episode 2016 anime by Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ.
Pandu
Pandu (Pāṇḍu, "pale") is the Hastinapura king in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, son of Vyasa and Ambalika, cursed by the sage Kindama to die on embracing a wife, and earthly father of the five Pandavas, born to gods via Kunti and Madri.
Panduranga Mahatyamu
Panduranga Mahatyamu (పాండురంగ మాహాత్మ్యము) is a 16th-century Telugu kavya by Tenali Ramakrishna, one of the five great Telugu mahakavyas, praising the Pandharpur shrine of Panduranga.
Panegyrici Latini
The Panegyrici Latini, also known as XII Panegyrici Latini, is a collection of twelve Latin prose panegyrics delivered to Roman emperors between 100 and 389 CE, opening with Pliny the Younger's speech to Trajan.
Panegyricus
The Panegyricus (Greek: Πανηγυρικός) is a political speech by the Athenian orator Isocrates, published around 380 BCE, urging the Greek cities to end their wars and unite against Persia.
Pangur Bán
Pangur Bán (Messe ocus Pangur Bán) is a ninth-century anonymous Old Irish poem in which an Irish monk compares his scholarship to his white cat's mouse-hunting; it survives in one manuscript, the Reichenau Primer at St Paul's Abbey, Austria.