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Pueblo en vilo
San José de Gracia: Mexican Village in Transition is the 1974 English edition of Luis González y González's Pueblo en vilo, the founding work of Mexican microhistory.
Pugachev
Pugachev (Пугачёв) is a 1921 dramatic poem by Sergei Yesenin about the peasant war of 1773–1775 led by Yemelyan Pugachev, conceived in 1920 and staged at the Taganka Theater in 1967.
Pugsley Addams
Pugsley Addams, originally to be named Pubert, is the son of Gomez and Morticia in Charles Addams's Addams Family cartoons from 1938; named for the 1964 ABC series, played by Ken Weatherwax, later by Workman, Wolfhard, and Ordonez.
Pujavaliya
Pujavaliya (පූජාවලිය, "The Garland of Worship") is a thirteenth-century Sinhala prose work of stories about offerings to the Buddha, written around 1266 by the monk Mayūrapāda Buddhaputra.
Pulang
Pulang ("Home" or "Return") is a historical and political novel by the Indonesian writer Leila S. Chudori, first published in 2012, about four political exiles stranded abroad after the events of 1965.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, formerly the Novel award (1917–1947), is a $15,000 Columbia University prize for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably about American life; juries nominate three finalists and the Pulitzer Prize Board may withhold the award.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: annual Columbia University award since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, $15,000; preceded by the Columbia University Poetry Prize; no award in 1946.
Pulp magazine
A pulp magazine was a cheap fiction magazine printed on wood-pulp paper that flourished in the United States from the 1890s to the early 1950s, launching writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
Punashcha
Punashcha (পুনশ্চ, meaning "Postscript") is a 1932 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, the first work of his late period and his first written entirely in prose rhythm.
Punjabi novel
The Punjabi novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in the Punjabi language, written in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts across Indian and Pakistani Punjab since 1898.
Punjabi short story
The Punjabi short story is a prose fiction genre in the Punjabi language, written in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts, that emerged in the twentieth century.
Punjabi Sufi poetry
Punjabi Sufi poetry is mystical verse in Punjabi by Muslim Sufi poets, beginning with Baba Farid and carried to its peak in the kafis of Bulleh Shah (1680–1757).
Punks Triangle
PUNKS△TRIANGLE (パンクストライアングル), BL manga by Yuho Okita; fashion student Chiaki torn between model Ai and classmate Enaga, the same person. Over 300,000 copies sold; Seven Seas English edition 2025; live-action drama October 2025.
Purabi
Purabi (পূরবী) is a 1925 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, drawn from poems written on his 1924 voyage to Europe and South America, dedicated to Victoria Ocampo.
Pūrākau o Kupe
Pūrākau o Kupe are Māori oral narratives about the ancestor Kupe, who pursued a giant octopus from Hawaiki and, in many iwi traditions, discovered Aotearoa New Zealand.
Purapporul Venbamalai
Purapporul Venbamalai (புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை) is a Tamil grammar treatise on puram, the war and public-life themes of classical poetry, usually dated to the 9th century CE.
Purgatorio
Purgatorio, second canticle of Dante's Divine Comedy: the pilgrim climbs seven terraces of Mount Purgatory, shedding seven P's, to reach Eden and reunite with Beatrice; circulated 1315-16, written in terza rima.
Purifications
Purifications (Greek Katharmoi) is a hexameter poem attributed to the fifth-century BCE philosopher-poet Empedocles of Acragas, carrying his religious teaching on exiled daimons and rebirth.
Push (novel)
Push (1996) is Sapphire's debut novel about Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, abused Harlem teenager; published by Knopf, it won the Stephen Crane First Fiction award and inspired the 2009 Oscar-winning film Precious.
Pusheen
Pusheen (プシーン) is a chubby gray tabby cat character created in 2010 by Claire Belton and Andrew Duff in the webcomic Everyday Cute; famous for Facebook stickers (14 million daily sends) and licensed merchandise in over 60 countries.
Pussy Galore
Pussy Galore is the Ian Fleming Goldfinger (1959) Bond character, a lesbian Harlem gang leader in the novel and Honor Blackman's pilot with the Flying Circus in the 1964 film, famous for her censors-challenging name and Operation Grand Slam.
Puteri Gunung Ledang
Puteri Gunung Ledang, the Princess of Mount Ledang, is a supernatural princess of Malay legend who rejects the Sultan of Melaka's marriage proposal by setting demands no mortal ruler could fulfill.
Putul Nacher Itikatha
Putul Nacher Itikatha ("The Puppet's Tale") is a Bengali novel by Manik Bandyopadhyay, published in 1936 and set in the village of Gaodiya in colonial Bengal.
Pythian Odes
The Pythian Odes (Πυθιονῖκαι) are twelve choral victory odes by the Greek poet Pindar, composed for victors at the Pythian Games at Delphi, including his longest ode, Pythian 4.
Q (novel)
Q (novel), Italian historical novel by Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi, and Luca Di Meo as Luther Blissett (later Wu Ming), published March 1999. Set 1517-1555 Reformation Europe; an Anabaptist heretic is pursued by Vatican agent Q; over a million copies sold in Italy.
Q & A (novel)
Q & A is Vikas Swarup's 2005 debut novel about Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphan jailed after winning the quiz show Who Will Win a Billion?; it inspired the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire.
Qasidas of Khaghani
The qasidas of Khaghani are the Persian odes of the 12th-century poet Khaghani Shirvani (خاقانی شروانی), about 8,500 verses, nearly half his surviving corpus, most famously "Eyvan-e Mada'en" on the ruined Sasanian palace at Ctesiphon.
Qi Tian Le: Cicada
Qi Tian Le: Cicada (齐天乐·蝉) is a Song-dynasty ci poem by the loyalist Wang Yisun, using the cicada's autumn cry to voice grief for the fallen Southern Song.
Qian Chibi Fu
Qian Chibi Fu (前赤壁赋), the Former Ode on the Red Cliff, is a prose-poem written by the Song writer Su Shi in 1082 during his exile at Huangzhou.
Qianfu Lun
Qianfu Lun (潜夫论, Essays of a Recluse) is a collection of 36 political and philosophical essays by the Eastern Han thinker Wang Fu, written under Emperor Huan.