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Pirej
Pirej (Пиреј) is a 1980 historical novel by the Macedonian writer Petre M. Andreevski, portraying a married couple torn apart by the Balkan Wars and World War I.
Pity the Farmers
Pity the Farmers (悯农, Mǐn Nóng) is a set of two Tang dynasty quatrains by the poet Li Shen that sympathize with the farmer, known to nearly every Chinese schoolchild.
Piyale
Piyâle (Wine Glass) is a 1926 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Ahmet Hâşim, his second and last book, opening with his influential manifesto on poetry as an art closer to music than to words.
Piyyut of the Land of Israel
Piyyut of the Land of Israel is the Hebrew liturgical poetry composed in the synagogues of Palestine from late antiquity, first appearing around the 5th century CE.
Plaasroman
The plaasroman (Afrikaans for farm novel) is an Afrikaans prose subgenre centered on the farm and its meaning, arising in the 1920s and 1930s amid Afrikaner nationalism.
Planet of the Apes (novel)
Planet of the Apes (La Planète des singes) is Pierre Boulle's 1963 French satirical science fiction novel, translated by Xan Fielding as Monkey Planet, in which astronauts reach a Betelgeuse planet ruled by intelligent apes; it inspired the 1968 film and the whole franchise.
Planine
Planine is a pastoral and allegorical romance by the Croatian Renaissance writer Petar Zoranić, written in 1536 and printed in Venice in 1569, generally regarded as the first Croatian novel.
Platero and I
Platero and I (Platero y yo) is a prose poem book by Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez about a silver donkey in Moguer, first published in 1914.
Platinum End (プラチナエンド)
Platinum End (プラチナエンド) is a supernatural manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, serialized in Jump SQ. 2015–2021 in 14 volumes, about 13 God candidates including Mirai Kakehashi competing within 999 days; adapted as a 24-episode 2021–2022 anime.
Player Piano (novel)
Player Piano (novel), also issued in paperback as Utopia 14, is Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 debut dystopian novel about engineer Paul Proteus rebelling against a machine-run America, drawn from his General Electric publicity work in Schenectady.
Playful Relationships
Playful Relationships (あそびのかんけい, Asobi no Kankei) is a Japanese board-game-café romantic comedy light novel by Sekina Aoi and Kurehito Misaki, Fantasia Bunko, from May 2025; Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2026 triple crown; Yen Press English edition.
Playground (novel)
Playground is Richard Powers's 2024 novel (Norton; 2024 Booker Prize longlist) about four lives converging on Makatea, French Polynesia, over a seasteading vote, ending in an AI-generated-story twist.
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is a Japanese light novel series by Yūshi Ukai. It follows Yuuki, who competes in deadly games for a living.
Please Excuse My Younger Brothers
Please Excuse My Younger Brothers (うちの弟どもがすみません, Uchi no Otōto-domo ga Sumimasen), also Ito and Her Brothers, is Akira Ozaki's shōjo manga in Bessatsu Margaret since 2020, 15 volumes, about Ito and four stepbrothers; adapted into a 2024 Shochiku live-action film and a 2026 Lay-duce TV anime (24 episodes).
Please Look After Mom
Please Look After Mom (엄마를 부탁해) is a 2008 novel by Shin Kyung-sook about a family searching for their mother who disappears in a Seoul subway station.
Please Save My Earth (ぼくの地球を守って)
Please Save My Earth (ぼくの地球を守って, Bokutama) is Saki Hiwatari's 1986-1994 Hakusensha shōjo SF manga about seven reincarnated Moon-base alien scientists, 21 volumes, 16 million copies, with a Prime Video live-action drama due autumn 2027.
Plot (narrative)
Plot (narrative), also called mythos, intrigue, or sjuzhet, is the arrangement of story events and their causal connections in a narrative, defined by Aristotle, theorized via fabula/sjuzhet by the Russian formalists, and central to narratology.
Plot armor
Plot armor (plot armour) is informal fandom slang for a fictional character's implausible immunity to harm because the story needs them alive; first recorded 2005–10, defined on Urban Dictionary in 2008, and extended jokingly to real people.
Plot device
Plot device: a narrative element, object, character, or situation introduced to advance a story's plot or resolve a complication. Includes MacGuffin, deus ex machina, flashback, montage, red herring, cliffhanger, and criteria for effective versus contrived use.
Plot twist
Plot twist: an unexpected turn in a story's narrative that changes its direction or outcome; a twist ending concludes the tale. Associated with O. Henry, Maupassant, Hitchcock, and puzzle films.
Plumb
"Plumb" (Romanian for "Lead") is a poem by George Bacovia that opens his 1916 debut volume and stands as the emblematic poem of Romanian symbolism.
Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love!
Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love! (デブとラブと過ちと！, Debu to Love to Ayamachi to!) is a mamakari shōjo manga on Comic C'moA about amnesiac office worker Yumeko Kōda, with a 2022 live-action drama and a 2025 Marvy Jack TV anime.
Pnin (novel)
Pnin (Пнин), Vladimir Nabokov's 1957 novel, follows Russian émigré professor Timofey Pnin at fictional Waindell College through an unreliable narrator; serialized in The New Yorker, it brought Nabokov his first National Book Award nomination.
Po-on
Po-on, published internationally as Dusk, is a 1984 historical novel by Filipino writer F. Sionil José; its title is Ilocano for roots, and it opens his five-novel Rosales Saga.
Pobrecito poeta que era yo...
Pobrecito poeta que era yo... is the only published novel of Salvadoran poet and guerrilla Roque Dalton, a seven-part "novela-collage" issued posthumously by EDUCA in 1976, a year after his assassination.
Poem of Sorrow and Anger
Poem of Sorrow and Anger (悲愤诗, Beifen shi) is the title of two poems attributed to the late Han poet Cai Yan, also known as Cai Wenji.
Poem Without a Hero
Poem Without a Hero (Поэма без героя) is a long poem by Anna Akhmatova, written from 1940 into the 1960s, looking back at pre-revolutionary Petersburg.
Poema
Poema (Russian: поэма) is a Russian literary genre, roughly "a long poem with a story," combining narrative plot with a strong lyrical voice; Pushkin and Mayakovsky wrote notable examples.
Poema de Chile
Poema de Chile is an unfinished book of poems by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, published posthumously in 1967, describing an imaginary journey through Chile from north to south.
Poema Sujo
Poema Sujo ("Dirty Poem") is a long narrative poem by Ferreira Gullar, written in exile in Buenos Aires in 1975 and published in 1976 to wide acclaim.