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Persian Divan of Ghalib
The Persian Divan of Ghalib (دیوانِ فارسی غالب) is the Persian-language poetry of Delhi poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, whose 1845 divan holds about 6,000 verses.
Persian Divan of Imadaddin Nasimi
The Persian Divan of Imadaddin Nasimi is the Persian-language songbook of the poet Nasimi of Shirvan, a leading Hurufi figure, holding about 5,000 lines of verse.
Persian epic poetry
Persian epic poetry is a tradition of long, mostly metrical narratives in heroic language about the valor of warriors and kings, with Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, completed around 1010, as its standard example.
Persian literature
Persian literature (Farsi, Dari, Tajik) is the New Persian literary tradition from the 9th-century Samanid court onward: Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Rumi's Masnavi, Hafez, Sa'di, Khayyam, spanning Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, India, and Turkey.
Persian Motifs
Persian Motifs (Персидские мотивы) is a lyric cycle of fifteen poems by Sergei Yesenin, written in the Caucasus in 1924 and 1925 and drawing on classical Persian poetry.
Persian mystical poetry
Persian mystical poetry (شعر عرفانی) is lyric and didactic poetry in classical New Persian, from about 900 to 1600 AD, in which Sufi meanings are expressed through Persian verse forms like the ghazal.
Persian novel
The Persian novel (رمان فارسی) is the tradition of long prose fiction in Persian, which emerged in Iran in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Persian romantic novel
A Persian romantic novel is a novel in the Persian language whose central plot is a love affair, descended from a millennium-old tradition of Persian romance narrative.
Personal (novel)
Personal (2014) is the 19th Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child, published by Delacorte on September 2, 2014. Reacher hunts sniper John Kott, who tried to kill the French president, with analyst Casey Nice; a #1 NYT bestseller.
Personal essay
A personal essay is a short, first-person work of autobiographical nonfiction that uses the writer's experience to reach meaning beyond the self, within creative nonfiction.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, written in 1885 while he was bankrupt and dying of throat cancer.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah is Richard Francis Burton's three-volume 1855–1856 account of the 1853 hajj he performed disguised as a Muslim.
Persuader (novel)
Persuader is Lee Child's 2003 thriller, the seventh Jack Reacher novel, in which Reacher infiltrates a guarded Maine estate with the DEA and hunts the villain Quinn; it was a New York Times bestseller and the basis of Reacher season 3.
Persuasion (novel)
Persuasion, Jane Austen's last completed novel, published posthumously December 1817 (dated 1818) with Northanger Abbey via John Murray; Anne Elliot, persuaded to break her engagement to Captain Wentworth, is reunited with him.
Perumal Tirumoli
Perumal Tirumoli (பெருமாள் திருமொழி, "the sacred words of the Lord") is a ninth-century Tamil bhakti work by Kulasekara Alvar of 105 verses in ten decades praising Vishnu.
Perumpanarruppatai
Perumpanarruppadai (பெரும்பாணாற்றுப்படை) is a 500-line Sangam Tamil poem, the fourth of the Pattuppattu Ten Idylls, in which a bard guides a poor fellow bard to his patron, the Kanchi king Tondaiman Ilanthiraiyan.
Perunkathai
Perunkathai (பெருங்கதை), also called Konguvel Maakkadhai or Udhayanan Kadhai, is a Tamil Jain epic by Konguvelir that retells the life of King Udayana of Kosambi from the Sanskrit Brihatkatha.
Pervigilium Veneris
Pervigilium Veneris ("The Vigil of Venus") is an anonymous Latin poem of late antiquity celebrating Venus in spring, ending in the poet's lament for his lost muse.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is Stephen King's 1983 Doubleday horror novel about Louis Creed, a Micmac burial ground in Ludlow, Maine that returns the dead changed, and grief that overrides judgment. Adapted in 1989 by Mary Lambert and remade in 2019.
Peta Perjalanan
Peta Perjalanan, meaning Travel Map, is a 1977 collection of Indonesian poetry by Sitor Situmorang, published in Jakarta and winner of the Jakarta Arts Council poetry prize for 1976/1977.
Petals of Blood
Petals of Blood is a 1977 novel by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, his last written in English, set in the fictional village of Ilmorog.
Petals of Reincarnation
Petals of Reincarnation (Reincarnation no Kaben; リィンカーネーションの花弁) is Mikihisa Konishi's Mag Garden manga about Returners who gain past-life talents by slitting their throats with the Branch of Reincarnation; 24 volumes, 3.33 million copies, 13-episode 2026 anime on HIDIVE.
Petals on the Wind
Petals on the Wind, 1980 sequel to Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews, second Dollanganger novel; Pocket Books first edition, 439 pp., follows Cathy, Chris, and Carrie's revenge after Foxworth Hall; 2014 Lifetime film.
Pete the Cat
Pete the Cat is a children's book character, a groovy blue cat created by artist James Dean, first published in 2008 with musician Eric Litwin in I Love My White Shoes, later written by Kimberly Dean, over 70 books plus an Amazon Prime animated series.
Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's 1911 novelization of his 1904 play Peter Pan, published by Hodder & Stoughton and Scribner's, illustrated by F. D. Bedford, with the new final chapter When Wendy Grew Up.
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt is a Charlton Comics superhero created by Pete Morisi in 1966, whose scroll-based mental discipline powers inspired Watchmen's Ozymandias; later published by DC and Dynamite, including Gillen's 2019 series.
Peter F. Hamilton bibliography
Peter F. Hamilton bibliography: complete book list of the British SF author (born 1960), covering Greg Mandel, Night's Dawn, the Commonwealth Saga, Void Trilogy, Salvation Sequence, Arkship Trilogy, and the Exodus duology.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is J.M. Barrie's eternal boy, first printed in The Little White Bird (1902), staged in 1904, and novelized as Peter and Wendy (1911); famous for Neverland, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, and a century of film and stage adaptations.
Peter Parker: Spider-Man
Peter Parker: Spider-Man, the 1999–2003 Marvel Comics series (Spider-Man vol. 2), relaunched with Howard Mackie and John Romita Jr., continuing the 1990 Spider-Man series' legacy numbering.
Peter Pevensie
Peter Pevensie, High King Peter the Magnificent, is the eldest Pevensie sibling in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia; crowned at Cair Paravel, he appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Last Battle.