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Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico (El perfil del hombre y la cultura en México) is a 1934 book by Samuel Ramos on Mexican national character and the sentiment of inferiority.
Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage is John F. Kennedy's 1956 Pulitzer-winning book of biographical sketches of eight politically courageous U.S. senators, largely researched and drafted by aide Ted Sorensen.
Profundamente
Profundamente is a free-verse poem by the Brazilian modernist poet Manuel Bandeira, first published in his 1930 collection Libertinagem and later included in Estrela da Vida Inteira.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, also translated as Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom, is a 1968 political essay by Andrei Sakharov, his first public political statement.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, founded by Michael Hart on July 4, 1971, is the oldest digital library, offering about 79,600 free public-domain eBooks via Distributed Proofreaders volunteers, with EPUB3 accessibility work and AI audiobooks distinguishing it from Standard Ebooks.
Prologue
Prologue (πρόλογος): the opening actor speech of ancient Greek tragedy before the parodos, supplying prehistory of the action; attributed to Thespis, always monologic in Euripides, dialogic in Sophocles, influential on later drama.
Prometeo
Prometeo, Spanish and Italian for Prometheus, is the Greek Titan who stole fire for humanity and endured endless punishment; the name also marks an 1877 epic poem by Olegario Víctor Andrade.
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
Prometheus Unbound (1820) is Percy Bysshe Shelley's four-act lyrical drama reworking the Prometheus myth, published by C. and J. Ollier; composed 1818-1819 at Este, Rome, and Florence, with Act 4 added as an afterthought.
Promise Me, America
Promise Me, America is Joe Biden's presidential memoir (Little, Brown, November 17, 2026), his third book after Promises to Keep and Promise Me, Dad, covering his presidency and 2024 withdrawal.
Prosas profanas y otros poemas
Prosas profanas y otros poemas is an 1896 book of poetry by Rubén Darío, published in Buenos Aires, in which Hispanic American modernism reached its fullest expression.
Prose Lancelot
The Prose Lancelot, also Lancelot en prose, is the early 13th-century Old French prose romance telling Lancelot's life, his love for Guenevere, and his rise as Arthur's greatest knight.
Prose satire
Prose satire is satire composed in prose rather than verse, depicting an evil condition in an individual or society that should be corrected or punished; Jonathan Swift was its dominant English figure.
Prosopopeia
Prosopopeia (Prosopopéia) is an epic poem by Bento Teixeira, published in Lisbon in 1601, narrating the deeds of Jorge d'Albuquerque Coelho and marking the start of the Brazilian Baroque.
Protagonist
Protagonist: the central character of a narrative, from Greek 'chief actor.' Distinct from hero, narrator, and viewpoint character; opposed structurally, not morally, by the antagonist.
Proust Questionnaire
The Proust Questionnaire is a set of roughly two dozen personal questions named for Marcel Proust, whose answers to a Victorian confession album inspired versions in magazines and television.
Proverbios morales
Proverbios morales (Moral Proverbs) is a fourteenth-century Castilian wisdom poem by the Jewish poet Sem Tob (Santob) de Carrión, dedicated to King Peter I of Castile.
Prufrock and Other Observations
Prufrock and Other Observations is T. S. Eliot's first book of poems, published in London in 1917 and opening with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Przesłanie Pana Cogito
"Przesłanie Pana Cogito" ("The Envoy of Mr. Cogito") is a 1974 poem by Zbigniew Herbert, the closing poem of his volume Pan Cogito and his most popular.
Psalm 119
Psalm 119 (תהלים קיט) is the Bible's longest chapter, a 176-verse Hebrew alphabetic acrostic of 22 eight-verse stanzas, one per letter from aleph to tav, meditating on Torah through eight recurring synonyms.
Psalms of Asaph (אסף)
Psalms of Asaph (אסף), biblical Psalms 50 and 73–83 in the Masoretic Psalter, attributed to Asaph the Levite musician of David's court and his descendant guild; Elohistic, historically themed collection spanning preexilic to exilic scholarship.
Psycho (novel)
Psycho (novel), Robert Bloch's 1959 Simon & Schuster horror novel, also called Psicosis, about Norman Bates and the Bates Motel in Fairvale, California; inspired by the Ed Gein case and adapted by Hitchcock in 1960.
Psychological thriller
Psychological thriller: a fiction and film genre driven by mental tension, unreliable narration, obsession, and paranoia rather than physical action; related to detective fiction and the Gothic via Poe, named postwar, popularized by Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with domestic noir its dominant modern branch.
Psychomachia
Psychomachia: Latin allegorical epic by Prudentius (348–ca. 410 CE), first allegorical epic in Western literature, staging personified Virtues and Vices in combat for the human soul; hugely influential on medieval allegory and art.
Pu Sa Man: Written on the Wall at Zaokou
A famous ci poem by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, inscribed on a wall at Zaokou on the Gan River in Jiangxi around 1176, mourning the 1129 Jin invasion and the lost northern territories.
Pubis angelical
Pubis angelical is a 1979 novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, his fifth, telling one story across parallel planes of a sick Argentine woman's mind in a Mexican hospital.
Publication history of Marvel Comics crossover events
Publication history of Marvel Comics crossover events: company-wide storylines from Secret Wars (1984), the first mega-crossover, through the Infinity trilogy, Civil War, and Secret Invasion, to the 2025 revival of Marvel-DC crossovers.
Publishers Weekly bestseller lists
The Publishers Weekly bestseller lists are annual rankings of the best-selling books in the United States, compiled by the trade magazine Publishers Weekly, whose first original list debuted in 1912.
Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Puck, also called Robin Goodfellow, is the mischievous fairy servant of Oberon in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (written c. 1595-96, published 1600), drawn from Anglo-Saxon puca folklore; his love-juice error and ass's head prank drive the comedy, and his epilogue breaks the fourth wall.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Pudd'nhead Wilson is an 1894 Mark Twain novel set in Missouri during slavery days, in which an enslaved woman switches her infant son with her master's son.
Pudhumaipithan Kathaigal
Pudhumaipithan Kathaigal (புதுமைப்பித்தன் கதைகள், "The Stories of Pudumaippithan") is the lifetime collection of 29 short stories by the Tamil writer Pudumaippithan, a pioneer of modern Tamil prose.