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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (film)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 American coming-of-age drama directed by Stephen Chbosky, adapted from his 1999 novel, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller.
The Perón Novel
The Perón Novel (La novela de Perón) is a 1985 novel by the Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez that reconstructs Juan Perón's return from exile in 1973.
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (さくら荘のペットな彼女)
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (さくら荘のペットな彼女) is a Dengeki Bunko light novel series by Hajime Kamoshida, adapted into a 2012 24-episode J.C.STAFF anime directed by Atsuko Ishizuka.
The Pet Goat
"The Pet Goat", often mislabeled "My Pet Goat", is a 1994 children's reading exercise by Siegfried Engelmann, famously read by President Bush with second-graders on September 11, 2001.
The Petty Demon
The Petty Demon (Melky bes) is a novel by the Russian Symbolist writer Fyodor Sologub, first published in 1905 and one of the central prose texts of Russian modernism.
The Phantom of the Opera (novel)
The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is Gaston Leroux's 1910 Gothic novel set in the Paris Opera House, featuring Erik the Phantom, Christine Daaé, and Raoul de Chagny, basis of the 1925 film and 1986 musical.
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth is a 1961 children's fantasy adventure novel by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer, following bored Milo through Dictionopolis and Digitopolis to rescue princesses Rhyme and Reason.
The Philanthropic Ogre
The Philanthropic Ogre (El ogro filantrópico) is a 1979 essay collection by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, whose title essay defines the twentieth-century Mexican state as a paternalistic ogre.
The Philosophy of Composition
Poe's 1846 essay "The Philosophy of Composition" (Graham's Magazine), a step-by-step account of writing "The Raven" arguing for planned, mathematical composition, unity of effect, and the death of a beautiful woman as the most poetical topic.
The Philosophy of Lao Zhang
The Philosophy of Lao Zhang (老张的哲学) is the first full-length novel by the Chinese writer Lao She, a satire of a Beijing schoolteacher who puts money above all.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers, fully The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, is a comic novel by Charles Dickens, published under the pen name "Boz" in monthly parts from 1836 to 1837.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde's only novel, a Gothic tale first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in July 1890 and expanded into the 1891 Ward, Lock book edition.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684) is John Bunyan's Christian allegory of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, written in jail, translated into 216 languages, and second only to the Bible in English popularity.
The Pillars of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's 1989 historical novel about building a cathedral in fictional Kingsbridge, twelfth-century England, during the Anarchy; it sold about 27 million copies, spawned the Kingsbridge series, a 2010 miniseries, a video game, and a 2024 Madrid musical.
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book (Makura no sōshi, 枕草子) is a collection of short prose pieces written around 1001 by Sei Shōnagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi.
The Pioneer
The Pioneer (개척자, Gaecheokja) is a serialized novel by the Korean writer Yi Kwang-su, his second after The Heartless, published in Maeil Shinbo from 1917 to 1918.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Poe short story, first published 1842 in The Gift for 1843; an unnamed narrator sentenced by the Spanish Inquisition survives pit, pendulum, and closing walls, rescued by General Lasalle.
The Place of the Skull
The Place of the Skull (Plakha) is a 1986 novel by the Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, first published in Novyi mir and seen as a landmark work of the glasnost era.
The Place Where We Are Right
The Place Where We Are Right (המקום שבו אנו צודקים) is a short Hebrew poem by Yehuda Amichai contrasting the hard ground of certainty with doubt and love.
The Plague (novel)
The Plague (La Peste) is Albert Camus's 1947 Gallimard novel about a quarantined plague epidemic in Oran, French Algeria, narrated by Dr. Rieux; read as an occupation allegory and revived during COVID-19.
The Plague Column
The Plague Column (Morový sloup) is a free-verse poetry collection by Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert, written 1968 to 1970 and published in Prague in 1981.
The Plague of Doves
The Plague of Doves is a 2008 novel by Louise Erdrich about a 1911 murder and the lynching of three innocent Ojibwe men in North Dakota.
The Plains
The Plains is a 1982 novella by the Australian writer Gerald Murnane, in which an unnamed filmmaker spends twenty years trying and failing to make a film of the grasslands.
The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel
The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel (Das Versprechen) is a 1958 crime novella by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt in which a detective's promise destroys him.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America is Philip Roth's 2004 alternate-history novel in which Charles Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt in 1940; a Newark Jewish family's story, later adapted into a 2020 HBO miniseries by David Simon.
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence (Spanish: Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia) is a 1647 book of 300 aphorisms on prudence by the Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián.
The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan
The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan are the lyric and narrative verse of Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), an Armenian classic whose poems on love, longing, and homeland became folk songs.
The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan
The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan are the lyric works of the most prominent Armenian woman poet of the twentieth century, centered on love, homeland, longing, and the Armenian language.
The Poems of Yose ben Yose
The Poems of Yose ben Yose are Hebrew liturgical poems by Yose ben Yose, the earliest Jewish liturgical poet known by name, whose Shofar-service poems remain in the Ashkenazi liturgy.
The Poet and the Citizen
The Poet and the Citizen (Поэт и гражданин) is a poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1855 and published in 1856 as a dialogue on the poet's civic duty, opening his collection Poems.