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Peasant Children
Peasant Children (Крестьянские дети) is a small lyric-epic narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1861, that portrays village childhood through a hunter-poet's chance meeting with peasant children.
Pechersky Paterik
The Pechersky Paterik, or Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon, is the earliest and most influential East Slavic patericon, a collection of stories about the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery and its first monks.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo (1955) is Juan Rulfo's landmark Mexican novel, also known in English translation, in which Juan Preciado seeks his cacique father in the ghost town of Comala; its 68 fragmented, ghost-voiced sections made it a forerunner of the Latin American Boom.
Peeli Chhatri Wali Ladki
Peeli Chhatri Wali Ladki (पीली छतरी वाली लड़की; "The Girl with the Yellow Umbrella") is a long story by Hindi writer Uday Prakash, serialized in 2001.
Peeta Mellark
Peeta Mellark, the baker's son from District 12, is the deuteragonist of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy: co-victor of the 74th and 75th Games, Katniss Everdeen's love interest, hijacked in Mockingjay, played by Josh Hutcherson.
Pellucidar
Pellucidar is Edgar Rice Burroughs's fictional hollow-Earth world on the inner surface of a 500-mile-thick crust, lit by a central sun, in a seven-book series (1914–1963) beginning with At the Earth's Core, featuring the reptilian Mahars, David Innes, and Tarzan crossover.
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is an annual American literary prize honoring fiction by American permanent residents, founded by Mary Lee Settle in 1980 and first awarded to Walter Abish in 1981.
Penelope
Penelope (Πηνελόπη), wife of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, mother of Telemachus; famed for the shroud-unraveling trick, the marriage-bed test, and twenty years of fidelity amid 100-plus suitors.
Penny dreadful
The penny dreadful, also called the penny awful, was a cheap British weekly serial of sensational fiction sold for a penny in the nineteenth century.
People Love Dead Jews
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present is Dara Horn's 2021 Norton essay collection arguing that public veneration of murdered Jews, from Anne Frank to Holocaust memorials, flatters the living while ignoring antisemitism.
People of the City
People of the City is the 1954 debut novel of Nigerian writer Cyprian Ekwensi, following crime reporter and dance-band leader Amusa Sango in a West African city identified as Lagos.
People, Years, Life
People, Years, Life (Lyudi, gody, zhizn) is a memoir cycle by Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg, serialized in Novy Mir from 1960 to 1965 and widely influential among 1960s readers.
Pequod (Moby-Dick)
Pequod: the fictional Nantucket whaleship in Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), commanded by Captain Ahab, sunk by the White Whale, sourced from the 1821 Essex shipwreck.
Perahu Kertas
Perahu Kertas ("Paper Boat") is a 1983 poetry collection by the Indonesian poet Sapardi Djoko Damono, published by Balai Pustaka, Jakarta, which won the Jakarta Arts Council Literary Prize.
Perburuan
Perburuan (The Hunt, published in English as The Fugitive) is a 1950 novel by the Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer about a hunted former PETA soldier.
Perçemli Sokak
Perçemli Sokak is a 1956 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Oktay Rifat, published in Istanbul, marking his turn from the Garip movement toward İkinci Yeni poetics.
Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is an unfinished Old French verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes and the earliest known story of the Holy Grail.
Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson (Perseus Jackson) is Rick Riordan's fictional demigod son of Poseidon, narrator of Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005–2009) and lead of The Heroes of Olympus; over 150 million books sold, adapted into films, a Broadway musical, and the Disney+ series.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a fantasy series by Rick Riordan in which twelve-year-old Percy Jackson discovers he is the son of Poseidon and trains at Camp Half-Blood.
Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station is a 2001 fantasy novel by China Miéville, set in the industrial city of New Crobuzon and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Peregrinação
Peregrinação is a Portuguese travel narrative by Fernão Mendes Pinto, recounting his twenty-one years as merchant, ambassador, and pirate in Asia, published posthumously in 1614.
Perfect Addiction
Perfect Addiction names two romance works: Kaoruko Miyama's BL manga (パーフェクトアディクション, Gush, 2022, 1.5M copies, light anime 2026) and Claudia Tan's 2015 Wattpad novel adapted into a 2023 Prime Video film.
Perfect Victims
Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal is Mohammed El-Kurd's 2025 Haymarket Books essay collection critiquing the demand that Palestinians perform idealized victimhood to earn sympathy; a bestseller and Palestine Book Award winner.
Perfume (novel)
Perfume (Das Parfum, 1985) is Patrick Süskind's bestselling German historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an odorless perfumer who murders to create the perfect scent; over 20 million copies, translated into 50+ languages.
Periandros van Korinthe
Periandros van Korinthe (Periandros of Corinth) is a 1954 Afrikaans verse drama by D. J. Opperman about the Corinthian tyrant Periander, winner of the 1956 Hertzog Prize for Drama.
Periya Tiruvandadi
Periya Tiruvandadi (also rendered Periya Tiruvantati) is an 87-stanza Tamil devotional poem in the antadi chain form by the saint Nammalvar, part of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham.
Periyalvar Tirumoli
Periyalvar Tirumoli (பெரியாழ்வார் திருமொழி) is a Tamil devotional poem of 473 verses by the Alvar saint Periyalvar, part of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, known for singing of Krishna as a mother would.
Perlesvaus
Perlesvaus, also known as Le Haut Livre du Graal (The High Book of the Grail), is an anonymous early 13th-century Old French prose romance reworking Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval into a Christian Grail allegory.
Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness
Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness (Perpétue et l'habitude du malheur) is a 1974 novel by the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, published by Buchet/Chastel in Paris.
Perry Mason
Perry Mason is a fictional criminal defense lawyer created by Erle Stanley Gardner in 1933, known for defending murder clients in Los Angeles and freeing them by finding the real culprit.