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Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit is Beatrix Potter's mischievous rabbit hero from The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first published by Frederick Warne in 1902 after private printing and six rejections, and sold over 46 million copies since.
Peter Schlemihl
Peter Schlemihl is the title character of Adelbert von Chamisso's 1814 literary fairy tale, a poor young man who sells his shadow for endless gold.
Peter the First
Peter the First is an unfinished historical novel by Alexei N. Tolstoy about the life and reforms of Peter the Great, written from the late 1920s until 1945.
Peterburgsky Sbornik
Peterburgsky Sbornik (Петербургский сборник, "Petersburg Collection") is an 1846 literary almanac edited by Nikolai Nekrasov in Saint Petersburg, known for Dostoevsky's debut novel Poor Folk.
Petersburg (novel)
Petersburg (Петербург, Петербургъ) is Andrei Bely's 1913 Russian symbolist novel, revised 1922, about a 1905 terrorist bomb plot against the senator Ableukhov by his own son; ranked by Nabokov with Ulysses, Metamorphosis, and Proust.
Petersburg Tales
Petersburg Tales (Петербургские повести) is the traditional title for Gogol's novellas set in Saint Petersburg, including The Nose, Diary of a Madman, and The Overcoat.
Petrarchan sonnet
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet: 14-line poem with octave ABBAABBA, sestet CDECDE or CDCDCD, volta at line 9; named for Petrarch, whose Canzoniere has 317 sonnets to Laura.
Petyr Baelish
Petyr Baelish, called Littlefinger, is a fictional character in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Aidan Gillen; a minor lord's son who becomes master of coin and Lord Protector of the Vale through manipulation.
Peyton Place (novel)
Peyton Place is Grace Metalious's 1956 debut novel about the hidden sexual and social secrets of a small, respectable New England town, and a huge best seller.
Phantastes
Phantastes, full title Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women, is an 1858 fantasy novel by George MacDonald about young Anodos's adventures in Fairy Land.
Phantom Busters
Phantom Busters (ファントムバスターズ) is a supernatural school-comedy manga by Neoshoco serialized in Shueisha's Jump SQ. since 2023, about four Kamakura high school boys who exorcise ghosts; 8 volumes, 1.4 million copies, TV anime announced for 2027.
Pharsalia
The Pharsalia, also known as the Bellum Civile (Civil War), is a ten-book Latin epic by the Roman poet Lucan recounting the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
Phial of Galadriel
Phial of Galadriel, also called the star-glass, is a crystal phial in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings holding the light of Eärendil's star, given to Frodo in Lothlórien and used against Shelob and the Watchers of Cirith Ungol.
Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg is the hero of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours), a wealthy, punctual London gentleman of the Reform Club who bets £20,000 he can circle the globe in eighty days and wins by seconds after a date-line oversight.
Philip K. Dick bibliography
The Philip K. Dick bibliography records the published works of American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928–1982): over 120 short stories, 44 novels, and the Exegesis.
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles private detective, debuted in The Big Sleep (1939) and appears in seven novels through Playback (1958), plus film, TV adaptations and authorized continuation novels.
Philippine literature
Philippine literature, also known as Filipino literature, is a collection of works written in various languages. It reflects indigenous, Spanish, and American colonial influences, alongside older traditions.
Philippine novel in English
The Philippine novel in English is the tradition of full-length fiction written in English by Filipino authors, beginning with Zoilo Galang's A Child of Sorrow in 1921.
Philippine poetry in English
Philippine poetry in English is poetry written by Filipinos in English, begun in the early 1900s after the United States made English the medium of instruction.
Philo Vance
Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective created by Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine). His novels ran from 1926 to 1939, solving twelve murder puzzles.
Philosophical Dictionary
The Philosophical Dictionary, or Dictionnaire philosophique, is a collection of alphabetically arranged polemical articles by Voltaire, first published anonymously at Geneva in 1764 and attacking religious intolerance while defending tolerance and deism.
Philosophical Letters
Philosophical Letters, also known as Letters on the English or Letters Concerning the English Nation, is Voltaire's 1734 work praising English religion, science, and politics.
Philosophical novel
A philosophical novel is a work of fiction using plot, character, and dialogue to explore philosophical questions; early landmarks include Voltaire's Candide and Johnson's Rasselas, both from 1759.
Philosophical tale
The philosophical tale (French: conte philosophique) is a short fiction using irony and satire to treat philosophical questions, reaching its classic form in 18th-century France with Voltaire.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is an 1869 political novel by Anthony Trollope, the second of the six Palliser novels, following a young Irish barrister entering the House of Commons.
Phineas Redux
Phineas Redux is a political novel by Anthony Trollope, the fourth of his six Palliser novels, serialized in 1873 and 1874 as a sequel to Phineas Finn.
Phir Subah Hogi
Phir Subah Hogi (फिर सुबह होगी, "There Will Be a Morning Again") is the title of several Hindi works, including novels, a short-story collection, and a 1958 film.
Phóng sự
Phóng sự, or reportage, is a Vietnamese literary genre at the crossing point of journalism and literature, flourishing from 1932 to 1945 with writers like Vũ Trọng Phụng and Ngô Tất Tố.
Phra Lak Phra Lam
Phra Lak Phra Lam (ພຣະລັກ ພຣະລາມ) is the Lao version of the Ramayana, named after the brothers Phra Lam and Phra Lak and treated in Laos as a jataka, a past life of the Buddha.
Phra Lo
Phra Lo (พระลอ) is the hero of Lilit Phra Lo, a Thai narrative poem regarded as a masterpiece of tragic romance and one of Thai literature's five great works.