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Parva
Parva (ಪರ್ವ) is a 1979 Kannada novel by S. L. Bhyrappa that retells the Mahabharata realistically, stripped of divine elements, through monologues on the eve of the Kurukshetra War.
Parwa
Parwa is the Old Javanese term for prose renderings of sections of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, among the most ancient works of Old Javanese (Kawi) literature.
Parzival
Parzival is Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German verse romance of nearly 25,000 verses, composed 1200–1210, expanding Chrétien's unfinished Perceval; hero heals Grail king Anfortas, basis of Wagner's Parsifal.
Pasayadan
Pasayadan is the concluding prayer of the Dnyaneshwari, the Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, written by the thirteenth-century saint Dnyaneshwar as a wish for the welfare of all beings.
Pasión de la tierra
Pasión de la tierra is a 1935 book of prose poems by Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre, regarded as the first incursion of Spanish poetry into surrealism.
Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!
Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! (Akujiki Reijō to Kyōketsu Kōshaku) is a Japanese fantasy romance light novel by Kanata Hoshi and Peperon, serialized from 2019, published by Kodansha from 2021, with a Palcy manga and a 2025 TBS anime.
Passing (novel)
Passing (1929) is Nella Larsen's Harlem Renaissance novel about Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, light-skinned Black women navigating racial passing, desire, and identity; a landmark of African American, feminist, and queer literary study, adapted by Rebecca Hall in 2021.
Passing an Old Friend's Farm
"Passing an Old Friend's Farm" (過故人莊, Guo Guren Zhuang) is a Tang dynasty pastoral poem by Meng Haoran, describing a visit to an old friend's farm and a promise to return.
Past and Present
Past and Present is an 1843 book of social criticism by Thomas Carlyle that contrasts a twelfth-century abbey with the industrial poverty of England.
Past Continuous
Past Continuous (Hebrew: Zikhron Devarim) is a 1977 novel by the Israeli author Yaakov Shabtai, his first and only completed one, following three friends in 1970s Tel Aviv.
Pastoral Care (Old English translation)
The Pastoral Care is a late ninth-century Old English translation of Pope Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis, made in the circle of King Alfred the Great.
Pasyon
The Pasyon (Pasyóng Mahál) is a Philippine epic verse narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, chanted continuously in the Lenten devotion called the pabasa.
Paterson (poem)
Paterson is William Carlos Williams's five-book modernist long poem (1946-1958) about Paterson, New Jersey, where a man mirrors the city; it follows the Passaic River and mixes verse, prose, and letters.
Pather Dabi
Pather Dabi (পথের দাবী) is a Bengali political novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, published in 1926 and set in British India. It was banned by the colonial government within months.
Paths of Glory (Cobb novel)
Paths of Glory, Humphrey Cobb's 1935 Viking Press anti-war novel about three French soldiers shot after a failed WWI assault, based on the Souain corporals case and later adapted into Kubrick's 1957 film.
Pathummayude Aadu
Pathummayude Aadu (പാത്തുമ്മയുടെ ആട്, "Pathumma's Goat") is a Malayalam novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, written in 1954 and published in 1959, about his joint family's daily life.
Patirruppattu
Patirruppattu (Patiṟṟuppattu, "ten tens") is a classical Tamil anthology of panegyric poems praising the ancient Cera kings of South India, and the principal source for early Cera history.
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman (Pat Bateman) is the narrator-protagonist of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel American Psycho: a Harvard-educated Wall Street banker and serial killer, later played by Christian Bale and adopted as a sigma-male meme icon.
Patriot Games
Patriot Games is a 1987 Tom Clancy techno-thriller novel and a 1992 film adaptation, both following ex-CIA analyst Jack Ryan as he becomes the target of an Irish terrorist splinter group's revenge.
Patterns of Childhood
Patterns of Childhood (Kindheitsmuster) is a 1976 novel by the German writer Christa Wolf, in which a narrator returns to her hometown, now Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland.
Pattinappalai
Pattinappalai is a classical Tamil Sangam poem, ninth in the Pattuppattu anthology, composed by Kadiyalur Uruttirangkannanar in praise of the Chola king Karikala and his port capital Puhar.
Paul "Jesus" Monroe
Paul "Jesus" Monroe is The Walking Dead comic character, a Hilltop Colony recruiter and martial artist created by Kirkman and Adlard, first appearing in issue #91 (2011); renamed Paul Rovia and killed off in the TV series.
Paul Atreides
Paul Atreides (Usul, Muad'Dib, Lisan al-Gaib, Kwisatz Haderach) is the protagonist of Frank Herbert's Dune: son of Duke Leto, Fremen messiah, prescient emperor, later the Preacher; portrayed by MacLachlan, Newman, and Chalamet.
Paul et Virginie
Paul et Virginie is a 1788 French pastoral novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre about the tragic love of two childhood friends raised on the island of Mauritius.
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's Ride is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1860 narrative poem, first printed in the Boston Evening Transcript and the January 1861 Atlantic Monthly, recounting Revere's April 18, 1775 midnight ride; it made Revere a national hero but took major poetic license with the facts.
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is Andrea Lawlor's 2017 debut novel (Rescue Press; reissued by Vintage 2019) about Paul Polydoris, a 1990s shapeshifter who changes body and gender at will across queer America.
Paulicéia Desvairada
Paulicéia Desvairada is a 1922 collection of poems by Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, widely taken to mark the beginning of Modernism in Brazilian poetry.
Peacemaker Kurogane
Peacemaker Kurogane (PEACE MAKER鐵) is Nanae Chrono's Shinsengumi manga sequel to Peace Maker, following 15-year-old Ichimura Tetsunosuke as Hijikata's page; adapted into a 24-episode 2003 GONZO anime, 2018 films, and 2010 live action.
Peanuts
Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz's American comic strip (debut October 2, 1950, as a renamed Li'l Folks), follows Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and friends; over 18,000 strips, 2,600-plus newspapers, 75 countries, Sony holds 80%.
Pearl (poem)
Pearl: late 14th-century Middle English alliterative dream vision (c. 1380) by the anonymous Pearl-Poet, an elegy and allegory of a father meeting his dead daughter in paradise; survives only in Cotton Nero A.x, 101 linked stanzas rhyming ababababcbc.