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The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and the Goblin is an 1872 children's fantasy novel by Scottish author George MacDonald, featuring Princess Irene, the miner Curdie, and underground goblins.
The Princess and the Pea
The Princess and the Pea (Prindsessen paa Ærten), Hans Christian Andersen's 1835 literary fairy tale, ATU 704: a pea under twenty mattresses tests a princess's sensitivity; no Danish folk variants exist.
The Princess and the Queen
The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens is George R. R. Martin's 2013 novella in Dangerous Women, an abridged Archmaester Gyldayn history of the Dance of the Dragons covering the Targaryen civil war's first two years, later expanded into Fire & Blood.
The Princess Bride (novel)
The Princess Bride (1973) is William Goldman's fantasy-satire novel, framed as his abridgment of a fictional S. Morgenstern classic set in Florin; Goldman also wrote the 1987 Rob Reiner film screenplay.
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries is Meg Cabot's diary-form young adult series (2000-2009) about Mia Thermopolis, heir to fictional Genovia, adapted into two Disney films (2001, 2004) starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway.
The Princess of Cleves
The Princess of Cleves (French: La Princesse de Clèves) is a novel by Madame de La Fayette, published anonymously in Paris in 1678 and often considered the first modern psychological novel.
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Priory of the Orange Tree is a 2019 epic fantasy novel by Samantha Shannon, reimagining Saint George and the Dragon in a world divided over dragons.
The Prisoner of the Caucasus
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Кавказский пленник) is the title of three Russian works: poems by Pushkin (1822) and Lermontov (1828), and a story by Tolstoy (1872).
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is Anthony Hope's 1894 adventure novel, also called 曾达的囚徒, founding the Ruritanian romance genre. Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the drugged King of Ruritania, falls for Princess Flavia, and inspired stage and film versions including the 1937 Ronald Colman classic.
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is an 1824 novel by the Scottish writer James Hogg, about a religious fanatic's confession of murder.
The Processions
The Processions (Al-Mawākib, المواكب) is a long philosophical poem in classical Arabic by Kahlil Gibran, published at his own expense in New York in 1919.
The Prodigal
The Prodigal is a book-length narrative poem by the St. Lucian poet and 1992 Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, published in 2004, meditating on exile, travel, fame, death, and homecoming.
The Prophet (book)
The Prophet (النبي) is Kahlil Gibran's 1923 book of 26 prose poems, published by Alfred A. Knopf, in which the prophet Almustafa speaks on love, work, and death in Orphalese; it has sold over 100 million copies in 100+ languages and entered the US public domain in 2019.
The Proud Tower
The Proud Tower is a 1966 book by historian Barbara W. Tuchman, a portrait of the world before World War I through essays on England, America, France, Germany, anarchism, and socialism.
The Psalter of David
The Psalter of David (Psałterz Dawidów) is the title of two Polish Renaissance renderings of the Psalms, by Mikołaj Rej (1543) and Jan Kochanowski (1579).
The Purloined Letter
Poe's 1844 short story, third and last of the C. Auguste Dupin detective tales, published in The Gift for 1845: a stolen blackmailing letter hidden in plain sight is recovered by Dupin, who leaves a taunting facsimile.
The Pursuit of Love
The Pursuit of Love is Nancy Mitford's 1945 semi-autobiographical comic novel about Linda Radlett and her eccentric family, narrated by cousin Fanny; adapted for TV in 1980, 2001, and 2021.
The Queen of Spades (Пиковая дама) (story)
The Queen of Spades (Пиковая дама) is a celebrated Russian prose short story by Alexander Pushkin, regarding an officer who seeks a winning card secret from a mysterious apparition.
The Queen of the Damned
The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice's 1988 third Vampire Chronicles novel, follows the first vampire Akasha's world-remaking plan after Lestat's rock music wakes her; adapted into a poorly received 2002 film and an AMC season.
The Queen's Necklace
The Queen's Necklace (Le Collier de la reine) is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, serialized 1849–1850, dramatizing the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a 1785 fraud scandal at the French court.
The Quest for Christa T.
The Quest for Christa T., German title Nachdenken über Christa T., is a 1968 novel by East German writer Christa Wolf recounting a friend's memory of a nonconformist woman who dies of leukemia.
The Quest for the Holy Grail
The Quest for the Holy Grail, or La Queste del Saint Graal, is an anonymous Old French prose romance from around 1225 in which knights seek the Grail.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American (1955) is Graham Greene's novel about British journalist Thomas Fowler, American idealist Alden Pyle, and Phuong in French Indochina; adapted to film in 1958 by Mankiewicz and in 2002 with Michael Caine.
The Radiance of the King
The Radiance of the King (Le Regard du roi) is a 1954 French-language novel by Guinean writer Camara Laye, following a destitute European seeking a king.
The Ragazzi
The Ragazzi, Italian title Ragazzi di vita, is Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 debut novel set in the poor outskirts of Rome, prosecuted for obscenity and translated as The Street Kids.
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a socialist novel by Robert Tressell, pen name of Irish painter Robert Noonan, published posthumously in 1914 and set in the fictional Mugsborough.
The Railway Children
The Railway Children is E. Nesbit's 1906 children's novel about the Waterbury siblings, Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis, who move to the countryside after their father is falsely imprisoned for spying; best known through Lionel Jeffries' 1970 film with Jenny Agutter.
The Rain Song
"The Rain Song" (Arabic: Unshudat al-Matar) is a 1954 poem by the Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, regarded as a landmark of modern Arabic poetry.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence's fourth novel (Methuen, 30 September 1915), tracing three generations of the Brangwen family in the Nottinghamshire–Derbyshire Midlands. Banned for obscenity in November 1915; companion to Women in Love; adapted for BBC TV (1988) and film (1989).
The Rainy Spell
The Rainy Spell (Jangma) is a 1973 short story by South Korean writer Yun Heunggil, portraying the Korean War's division of one family through a boy's eyes.