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Prince Caspian

Prince Caspian (1951), C. S. Lewis's second-published Narnia book (fourth chronologically), has the Pevensie children summoned by a magic horn to help Prince Caspian reclaim Narnia from his uncle Miraz; adapted for BBC TV and the 2008 Disney film.

Prince Ehtejab

Prince Ehtejab (Persian: شازده احتجاب) is a 1968 short novel by Iranian writer Houshang Golshiri recounting the decline of a Qajar aristocratic family through a dying prince's memories.

Prince Hamlet

Prince Hamlet, protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (c. 1600–01): a Danish prince who feigns madness and delays revenge on Claudius, surviving in three early texts (Q1, Q2, Folio) and endless adaptations.

Prince Serebrenni

Prince Serebrenni (Knyaz Serebryany, Князь Серебряный) is a historical novel by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published in 1862, set during the oprichnina of Ivan the Terrible.

Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant is Hal Foster's Sunday-only King Features adventure comic strip, debuting February 13, 1937, about an exiled prince of Thule who becomes a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, told in captions without word balloons.

Princess Ai

Princess Ai (Purinsesu Ai Monogatari, プリンセス・アイ物語) is a three-volume gothic fantasy manga co-created by Courtney Love and Stuart Levy, with character designs by Ai Yazawa.

Princess Bari

Princess Bari (바리공주), also known as Baridegi, is the heroine of a Korean shamanic narrative epic in which an abandoned daughter saves her dying parents with water from the netherworld.

Princess Lover! (プリンセスラバー!)

Princess Lover! (プリンセスラバー!) is Ricotta's 2008 debut adult visual novel about Teppei Arima, a commoner made heir to the Arima Group, romancing princess Charlotte, noble Silvia, Seika, and maid Yuu; adapted into a 2009 GoHands anime and a 2010 all-ages PS2 port.

Princess Ozma

Princess Ozma, ruler of the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first appears as the boy Tip in The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904); later titles include Ozma of Oz (1907) and The Lost Princess of Oz (1917).

Prithviraj Raso

Prithviraj Raso (पृथ्वीराज रासो), a Braj-language epic attributed to Chand Bardai about Prithviraj Chauhan; called Hindi's first mahakavya, with four recensions and a long-disputed date and historicity.

Prithvivallabh

Prithvivallabh (પૃથ્વીવલ્લભ) is a landmark Gujarati historical novel by K. M. Munshi, first published around 1921, telling of king Munj's fatal conflict with the Chalukya king Tailap.

Private Citizens

Private Citizens, Tony Tulathimutte's 2016 debut novel (also tagged 'Middlemarch for millennials'), follows four Stanford graduates, Cory, Will, Henrik, and Linda, through 2007-2008 San Francisco tech culture; New York Magazine called it the first great millennial novel.

Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful is Michael Morpurgo's 2003 children's First World War novel about brothers Tommo and Charlie, told during Tommo's night vigil before Charlie's execution for cowardice; adapted by Simon Reade for stage and as a 2012 Pat O'Connor film.

Prix Ahmadou Kourouma

The Prix Ahmadou Kourouma is an annual Swiss literary prize honoring Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma, awarded at the Geneva Book Fair for French-language fiction by sub-Saharan African authors.

Prix des Deux Magots

The Prix des Deux Magots is a French literary prize awarded annually since 1933 to a novel or essay by a jury at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés café.

Prix des Libraires

The Prix des Libraires is a French literary prize created in 1955 and awarded annually by a vote of booksellers, since 2025 also to a novel in translation.

Prix des Libraires du Québec

The Prix des Libraires du Québec is a set of annual literary awards given by booksellers in Quebec since 1994, covering fiction, essays, poetry, comics, and children's literature.

Prix du Livre Inter

The Prix du Livre Inter is a French literary prize created in 1975 and awarded each year in June by a jury of France Inter listeners.

Prix du Quai des Orfèvres

The Prix du Quai des Orfèvres is an annual French literary prize, awarded since 1946 for an unpublished crime novel by a French-language writer, published in at least 50,000 copies.

Prix Femina

The Prix Femina is a major French literary prize founded in 1904 by women in reaction to the all-male Goncourt jury, awarded by an all-woman jury.

Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious French literary prize, awarded each autumn by the Académie Goncourt to a French-language work of fiction since 1903.

Prix Interallié

The Prix Interallié is an annual French literary prize for a novel, created in 1930 by journalists at a Paris club and awarded preferably to a journalist among the major autumn prizes.

Prix Jacques Stephen Alexis

The Prix Jacques Stephen Alexis is a Haitian literary prize for unpublished fiction in Creole or French, created in 2016 by the National Directorate of Book.

Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary prize, founded in 1958, awarded each November to a novel whose tone or style brings something new, with separate prizes for foreign literature and essays.

Prix Sorcières

The Prix Sorcières is a French literary prize for children's and young adult books, awarded each year since 1986 by a jury of children's booksellers and librarians.

Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They? (問題児たちが異世界から来るそうですよ?)

Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sō Desu yo? (Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?) is a Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko light novel series (2011–2015) by Tarō Tatsunoko and Yū Amano about three gifted youths in Little Garden's Gift Games, with a 2013 ten-episode Diomedéa anime and a sequel, Last Embryo, on hiatus.

Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Проблемы поэтики Достоевского) is a 1963 book by Mikhail Bakhtin that analyzes Dostoevsky's novels and introduced polyphony, dialogue, and carnivalization to literary studies.

Procura da poesia

"Procura da poesia" ("Search for poetry") is a 1945 ars poetica by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published in the collection A rosa do povo at the end of World War II.

Production novel

The production novel (производственный роман; also rendered industrial novel) is a genre of fiction centered on workplaces and production processes, flourishing in Soviet literature as a main genre of Socialist Realism.

Professor Moriarty

Professor James Moriarty is Sherlock Holmes's arch-nemesis, the "Napoleon of Crime" in Arthur Conan Doyle's canon. Introduced in "The Final Problem" (1893) to kill Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, he appears in person in only one story yet founded the criminal-mastermind archetype.