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Phra Ruang
Phra Ruang (พระร่วง) is a name in Thai tradition used both for the kings of the Sukhothai region and for a legendary folk hero endowed with magical speech.
Phra Suthon Manora
Phra Suthon Manora, also called the Sudhana-Manohara tale, is a popular Thai literary tale of the love between Prince Suthon and Manora, a mythical half-woman half-bird kinnari.
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also called H2G2, are Douglas Adams catchphrases from the 1978 BBC radio series and 1979 novel, including Don't Panic, 42, towel, and So long and thanks for all the fish.
Phryne Fisher
Phryne Fisher, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, is a fictional lady detective created by Australian author Kerry Greenwood, first appearing in Cocaine Blues in 1989.
Phulmoni o Karunar Bibaran
Phulmoni o Karunar Bibaran (ফুলমণি ও করুণার বিবরণ) is an 1852 Bengali prose narrative by British missionary Hannah Catherine Mullens, widely regarded as the first original Bengali novel.
Phulor Saki
Phulor Saki, also recorded as Phulor Sorai, is an Assamese poem composed in 1929 by the poet Dharmeswari Devi Baruani (1892–1960) under the influence of Romanticism.
Pianyu Ci
Pianyu Ci (片玉词), also known as Qingzhen Ci, is the collected song lyric of Northern Song poet Zhou Bangyan, whose precisely patterned tunes became models for later lyricists.
Picaresque novel
Picaresque novel (novela picaresca): Spanish Golden Age prose genre, 16th-17th centuries, begun by the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), featuring a first-person rogue narrator, episodic survival adventures, and satire, later influencing Tom Jones and Huckleberry Finn.
Pickman's Model
"Pickman's Model" (1926) is H. P. Lovecraft's short story of Boston painter Richard Upton Pickman, first printed in Weird Tales, October 1927; narrator Thurber's climax reveals the artist painted ghouls from life.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay's 1967 Australian Gothic novel (F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne), depicts the unsolved St Valentine's Day 1900 disappearance of three schoolgirls and a teacher; its omitted final chapter appeared in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock.
Pieces of Her (TV series)
Pieces of Her is a 2022 American thriller series on Netflix, adapted from Karin Slaughter's 2018 novel and starring Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote in eight episodes.
Piedra de sol
Piedra de sol ("Sunstone") is a 1957 poem by Octavio Paz, named for the Aztec calendar stone and built of 584 lines matching the synodic cycle of Venus.
Piedra y cielo
Piedra y cielo, meaning Stone and Sky, is a 1919 book of poems by the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, later the name of a Colombian poetic group.
Pierre and Jean
Pierre and Jean (Pierre et Jean) is a short psychological novel by Guy de Maupassant, published in 1888, about two brothers in Le Havre. Its preface, "Le Roman", is a noted essay on realist fiction.
Pierre Bezukhov
Pierre Bezukhov (Пьер Безухов), full name Pyotr Kirillovich Bezukhov, is the central male character of Tolstoy's War and Peace: an illegitimate, French-educated heir who marries Hélène Kuragina, joins the Freemasons, survives 1812 captivity, and marries Natasha Rostova.
Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman, also called The Vision of Piers Plowman, is William Langland's late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative dream-vision poem, surviving in A, B, and C texts across more than fifty manuscripts, none identical.
Pieśni
Pieśni (Songs) is the principal Polish-language lyric collection of Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, published posthumously in Kraków in 1586; adapting Horace's Carmina, it is regarded as a central statement of Polish Renaissance philosophy.
Pig-Pen
Pig-Pen (also Pigpen) is the perpetually dirty Peanuts boy created by Charles M. Schulz, first appearing July 13, 1954, enveloped in a permanent dust cloud, appearing in about 100 of 17,897 strips, last seen in 1999.
Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Piglet is the timid "Very Small Animal" and best friend of Winnie-the-Pooh in A. A. Milne's 1926 and 1928 books, living under a "Trespassers W" sign, growing brave by The House at Pooh Corner, and later a Disney character voiced by John Fiedler.
Pigments
Pigments is a 1937 poetry collection by the French Guianese writer Léon-Gontran Damas, the first published volume associated with the Négritude movement and a blunt attack on colonialism and racism.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 book by Annie Dillard describing a year of observation along a creek in Virginia; it won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize.
Pindar (Πίνδαρος)
Pindar (Πίνδαρος), 518–438 BC, Theban Greek lyric poet, greatest of antiquity; forty-five epinician victory odes for Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games survive of seventeen books.
Ping Yao Zhuan
Ping Yao Zhuan, also titled Sansui Pingyao Zhuan, is an early Chinese gods-and-demons novel built around the suppression of Wang Ze's 1047 rebellion in the Northern Song.
Pinhua Baojian
Pinhua Baojian (品花寶鑑, Precious Mirror of Ranking Flowers) is a 60-chapter Qing dynasty novel by Chen Sen, first printed in 1849, depicting romance between Beijing scholars and male opera actors.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) is Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel about a wooden puppet who becomes a real boy; serialized 1881–1883, first book edition by Paggi with Mazzanti illustrations, over 260 translations, Disney 1940.
Píntame angelitos negros
Píntame angelitos negros is a poem by Venezuelan poet Andrés Eloy Blanco condemning the absence of Black angels in religious painting, set to music as a famous bolero.
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" is a poem by Walt Whitman, first published in Drum-Taps in 1865, that calls the American people as pioneers to continue their westward march in 26 quatrains.
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump), Astrid Lindgren's 1945 Swedish children's-book character: a superstrong, independent nine-year-old at Villa Villekulla, published in 80 languages with over 80 million copies sold.
Pir-e-Kamil (پیر کامل)
Pir-e-Kamil (پیر کامل), "The Perfect Mentor," is Umera Ahmed's best-selling 2004 Urdu novel, serialized in Shuaa Digest, about Imama Hashim and Salar Sikander; its sequel is Aab-e-Hayat.
Piranesi (novel)
Piranesi is Susanna Clarke's 2020 Bloomsbury fantasy novel, her second after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, told as the journal of a man alone in an infinite tide-filled House, winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.