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Portal fantasy
Portal fantasy is a fantasy subgenre in which a protagonist from the ordinary world crosses through a gateway, such as a wardrobe or rabbit-hole, into a magical other world.
Porthos
Porthos (M. du Vallon) is a fictional Musketeer in Dumas's The Three Musketeers (1844), with Athos and Aramis. Vain, loud, physically strong comic figure; marries Madame Coquenard; based on Isaac de Portau; appears across the D'Artagnan trilogy.
Portia (The Merchant of Venice)
Portia is the wealthy heiress of Belmont in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1596–1598), won by Bassanio through the casket test, who as the disguised lawyer Balthazar defeats Shylock's bond and delivers the 'quality of mercy' speech in Act 4, Scene 1.
Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint, 1969 novel by Philip Roth (his third, Random House, 274 pp.): Alexander Portnoy's monologue to Dr. Spielvogel; instant bestseller, Australian prohibited import, Modern Library top-100.
Porunararruppatai
Porunararruppatai (பொருநராற்றுப்படை) is a classical Tamil guide poem, the second of the Ten Idylls, composed by Mutattamak Kanniyar in praise of the Chola king Karikala Peruvazhudhan.
Poshekhon Antiquity
Poshekhon Antiquity is the last novel of the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, written 1887–1889 and serialized in Vestnik Evropy, portraying a nobleman's childhood on a serf-owning estate before the 1861 emancipation.
Position paper
A position paper is a document stating an arguable opinion on an issue, defended with evidence and counterargument responses; used by organizations for policy, in Model UN for country positions, and as academic argument writing.
Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time
Izure Saikyou no Renkinjutsushi? (いずれ最強の錬金術師？), known in English as Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time, is Kogitsunemaru's isekai light novel series from AlphaPolis about salaryman Takumi Iruma, accidentally summoned to Mildgard and granted an all-creating alchemy skill; adapted into manga and a 2025 Studio Comet anime with season 2 announced.
Post Captain (novel)
Post Captain (1972) is the second Aubrey-Maturin novel by Patrick O'Brian, following Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin during the Peace of Amiens: stalled promotion, the Williams family and Diana Villiers, and HMS Polychrest.
Post-Vulgate Cycle
The Post-Vulgate Cycle, also known as the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, is an Old French Arthurian prose cycle of the early thirteenth century that rewrites the Vulgate Cycle.
Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge: Carrie Fisher's 1987 semi-autobiographical debut novel about actress Suzanne Vale's rehab, and Mike Nichols' 1990 film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
Postcolonial Indian English fiction
Postcolonial Indian English fiction is fiction written in English by Indian writers after India's 1947 independence, engaging with colonial legacies, nation, and history, exemplified by Mulk Raj Anand, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy.
Postcolonial Love Poem
Postcolonial Love Poem is a 2020 poetry collection by American poet Natalie Diaz, published by Graywolf Press; it won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Posthomerica
The Posthomerica, Greek τὰ μεθ' Ὅμηρον, is a fourteen-book Greek epic by Quintus of Smyrna covering the Trojan War from Hector's death to the Greeks' departure.
Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature is post-World War II writing defined against modernism, marked by metafiction, irony, pastiche, and skepticism toward grand narratives; key theorists include Lyotard, Hassan, Hutcheon, and McHale.
Postmodern Turkish novel
The postmodern Turkish novel is fiction from the 1970s onward using metafiction, intertextuality, and irony, beginning with Oğuz Atay's Tutunamayanlar and flourishing in the 1980s and 1990s.
Potatoes
Potatoes (감자, Gamja) is a 1925 short story by the Korean writer Kim Dong-in, tracing Bok-nyeo's twenty-one-year decline from tenant farming into begging and prostitution in a Pyongyang slum.
Pothana Bhagavatam
Pothana Bhagavatam, also known as Andhra Maha Bhagavatamu, is the Telugu rendering of the Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana composed in the 15th century by the Telangana poet Bammera Pothana.
Pounamu Pounamu
Pounamu Pounamu is a 1972 collection of short stories by Witi Ihimaera, recognized as the first book-length work of fiction by a Māori author and continuously in print for over 50 years.
POV
POV (point of view) is the narrative perspective in storytelling and criticism defining what a teller knows and what is hidden from the reader. It is also used in film and novels.
Power Pack
Power Pack is a Marvel Comics superhero team of child siblings Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Powers, created in 1984 by Louise Simonson and June Brigman, powered by a dying Kymelian alien, with a 62-issue original run ending in 1991 and later miniseries revivals.
Power Politics
Power Politics is a 1971 poetry collection by Margaret Atwood, published by House of Anansi in Toronto, that treats love between a man and a woman as a contest of power.
Power Without Glory
Power Without Glory is a 1950 novel by Australian writer Frank Hardy tracing John West, a thinly disguised John Wren, from a Melbourne slum to political power through bribery and fear.
Powerless (novel)
Powerless (novel), Lauren Roberts debut YA romantasy published by Simon & Schuster November 7, 2023 after self-publishing; set in Ilya, where Ordinary Paedyn Gray poses as an Elite in the deadly Purging Trials alongside prince Kai Azer; first of a trilogy with a Prime Video adaptation.
Pozhenzi: A Strong Ci for Chen Tongfu
"Pozhenzi: A Strong Ci for Chen Tongfu" (破阵子·为陈同甫赋壮词以寄之) is a ci poem by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, written for his friend, the war advocate and thinker Chen Liang.
Prabhulinga Leele
Prabhulinga Leele, also rendered Prabhulinga Leelai, is a 15th-century Kannada Virashaiva bhakti epic by the poet Chamarasa, built on the life of the saint Allama Prabhu.
Prabodhacandrodaya
Prabodhachandrodaya (प्रबोधचन्द्रोदय, "The Rise of the Moon of Knowledge") is an eleventh-century Sanskrit allegorical drama by Kṛṣṇamiśra, the earliest known complete play of its kind.
Prachina
Prachina (પ્રાચીના) is a 1944 collection of seven Gujarati verse plays by the poet Umashankar Joshi, drawing on the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata, and Jataka stories.
Pralayollas
Pralayollas (প্রলয়োল্লাস, "The Exultation of Destruction") is a Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam that celebrates an impending revolution in colonial India, opening his debut collection Agnibina (1922).
Pralayshikha
Pralayshikha (প্রলয়শিখা, "The Doomsday Flame") is a collection of poems and songs by Kazi Nazrul Islam, published in Kolkata in 1930 and soon proscribed by the British.