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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Reader’s Dictionary of Authors

Paulding to Quita

James Kirke Paulding (1778–1860)
Reinhold Pauli (1823–1882)
Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus (1761–1851)
Pausanias (c. 110–180 A.D.)
Jules Pautet (1799–1870)
Nikolai Pavlov (1802–1854)
James Payn (1830–1898)
John Howard Payne (1791–1852)
William Morton Payne (1858–1919)
Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán (1821–1886)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804–1894)
Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936)
Josephine Preston Peabody (1874–1922)
John Macleay Peacock (1817–1877)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
Richard Brinsley Peake (1792–1847)
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827)
Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860)
Frances Mary Peard (1835–1923)
Edmund Lester Pearson (1880–1937)
Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920)
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862–1935)
George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916)
Harry Thurston Peck (1856–1914)
Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938)
John Peckham (d. 1292)
Christiern Pedersen (1480?–1554)
François de Pedouë (1603–1667)
Mary Louise Peebles (1833–1915)
George Peele (1556–1596)
Charles Péguy (1873–1914)
Étienne Pélabon (1745–1808)
Joséphin Péladan (1859–1918)
Simon-Joseph Pellegrin (1663–1745)
Pierre Clément Eugène Pelletan (1813–1884)
George Pellew (1859–1892)
Silvio Pellico (1789–1854)
Charles Marie Athanase Pellissier (1810–1871)
Simon Pelloutier (1694–1757)
Andries Pels (1631–1681)
Sir Max Pemberton (1863–1950)
Louis Pendleton (1861–1939)
Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855–1922)
Granville Penn (1761–1844)
John Penn (1760–1834)
William Penn (1644–1718)
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855–1936)
Joseph Pennell (1857–1926)
John Fitzgerald Pennie (1782–1848)
George Frederick Pentecost (1842–1920)
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)
Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo (1663–1743)
Elbert Perce (1831–1869)
James Gates Percival (1795–1856)
Thomas Percy (1729–1811)
José Maria de Pereda (1833–1906)
Lucien Perey (1825–1914)
Antonio Pérez (1540–1611)
Pedro Ildefonso Pérez (1826–1869)
Luisa Pérez de Zambrana (1835–1922)
Karl von Perfall (1851–1924)
Bernardino Perfetti (1681–1746)
Giovanni Domenico Peri (1564–1639)
Charles Callahan Perkins (1823–1886)
Frederic Beecher Perkins (1828–1899)
James Breck Perkins (1847–1910)
Justin Perkins (1805–1869)
Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
François-Tommy Perrens (1822–1901)
Paul Perret (1830–1904)
Bliss Perry (1860–1954)
Alice Perry (1854–1883)
Nora Perry (1831–1896)
Thomas Sergeant Perry (1845–1928)
William Stevens Perry (1832–1898)
Persius (34–62 A.D.)
José Joaquín Pesado (1801–1861)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827)
Karl Ludwig Peter (1808–1893)
Samuel Peters (1735–1826)
Niels Mathias Petersen (1791–1862)
Charles Jacobs Peterson (1819–1887)
Frederick Peterson (1859–1938)
Henry Peterson (1818–1891)
François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713)
Louis Petit de Julleville (1841–1900)
Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849)
Petrarch (1304–1374)
William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942)
Petronius (c. 27–66)
Mathilde Georgina Elisabeth de Peyrebrune (1848–1917)
Antoine Peyrol (1709–1779)
John Lewis Peyton (1824–1896)
Ludwig Pfau (1821–1894)
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (1736–1809)
Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858)
Gustav Pfizer (1807–1890)
Phædrus (c. 15 B.C.–c. 50 A.D.)
Austin Phelps (1820–1890)
William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943)
Pherecrates (Fourth Century B.C.)
Pherecydes of Syros (Sixth Century B.C.)
Philemon (c. 368–c. 264 B.C.)
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749)
Francis Charles Philips (1849–1921)
John Philips (1676–1709)
Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) (1632–1664)
David Graham Phillips (1867–1911)
Edward Phillips (1630–1696?)
George Searle Phillips (1815–1889)
Henry Phillips (1838–1895)
Stephen Phillips (1868–1915)
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884)
Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960)
Philo (c. 20 B.C.–c. 40 A.D.)
Philolaus (Fifth Century B.C.)
Philostratus (c. 170–c. 250)
Philoxenus (c. 435–380 B.C.)
Geōrgios Phrantzēs (1401–1478)
Phrynichus (Fifth Century B.C.)
Donn Piatt (1819–1891)
John James Piatt (1835–1917)
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919)
Louis Benoît Picard (1769–1828)
Michel Pichat (1790–1828)
Adolf Pichler (1819–1900)
Caroline Pichler (1769–1843)
Jérôme Pichon (1812–1896)
Charles Pickering (1805–1878)
Henry Pickering (1781–1838)
John Pickering (1777–1846)
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall (1883–1922)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)
Émile Picot (1844–1918)
Charles Felton Pidgin (1844–1923)
Alexandre Piedagnel (1831–1903)
Arthur Stanwood Pier (1874–1966)
Henry Niles Pierce (1820–1899)
John Pierpont (1785–1866)
Ludwig Pietsch (1824–1911)
Pigault-Lebrun (1753–1835)
Lorenzo Pignotti (1739–1812)
Pierre Antoine Augustin de Piis (1755–1832)
Albert Pike (1809–1891)
Frederick Henry Pilch (1842–1889)
Mary Pilkington (1766–1839)
Fabien Pillet (1772–1855)
Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946)
Pindar (c. 522–433 B.C.)
Ippolito Pindemonte (1753–1828)
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934)
Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884)
Edward Coate Pinkney (1802–1828)
Alexis Piron (1689–1773)
Christine de Pisan (c. 1364–c. 1431)
Aleksey Pisemsky (1820–1881)
Pierre Pithou (1539–1596)
Pitre Chevalier (1812–1863)
René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773–1844)
Jean-Leo Placentius (c. 1500–c. 1550)
Plácido (1809–1844)
Eugène de Planard (1783–1853)
James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)
August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835)
Plato (429–347 B.C.)
Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.)
Petr Plavilshchikov (1760–1812)
Pliny the Elder (23–79 A.D.)
Pliny the Younger (61/2–c. 113 A.D.)
Plotinus (205–270)
Édouard Plouvier (1821–1876)
Anne Plumptre (1760–1818)
James Plumptre (1770–1832)
Plutarch (c. 45–120 A.D.)
Franz Graf von Pocci (1807–1876)
Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)
Edward Pococke (1604–1691)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Mikhail Pogodin (1800–1875)
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
Antoine Alexandre Henri Poinsinet (1735–1769)
Prosper Poitevin (c. 1804–1884)
Wincenty Pol (1807–1872)
Nikolai Polevoi (1796–1846)
Politian (1454–1494)
Elise Polko (1822–1899)
Edward Albert Pollard (1831?–1872)
Josephine Pollard (1834–1892)
Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz (1692–1775)
Robert Pollok (1798–1827)
Gaspar Gil Polo (1516?–1591?)
Marco Polo (1254–1324)
Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina (1603–1676)
Polyænus (Second Century)
Polybius (c. 200–c. 118 B.C.)
Polyides (Fourth Century B.C.)
Marcus Mills Pomeroy (1833–1896)
John Pomfret (1667–1702)
Victor Louis Amédée Pommier (1804–1877)
Jean Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784)
Charles Poncy (1821–1891)
Frederick Eugene Pond (1856–1925)
Jean Baptiste Aimé Sanson de Pongerville (1782–1870)
Anton Slodzin Poninski (d. 1742)
François Ponsard (1814–1867)
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829–1871)
Armand de Pontmartin (1811–1890)
Claude de Pontoux (c. 1530–1579)
Maria Louise Pool (1841–1898)
Ernest Poole (1880–1950)
John Poole (1786?–1872)
William Frederick Poole (1821–1894)
Agnes Blake Poor (1842–1922)
Benjamin Perley Poore (1820–1887)
Hubert Korneliszoon Poot (1689–1733)
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
Porphyry (c. 234–c. 305)
Richard Porson (1759–1808)
Elizabeth-Marie Port
Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832)
Charlotte Endymion Porter (1859–1942)
David Porter (1780–1843)
David Dixon Porter (1813–1891)
Horace Porter (1837–1921)
Jane Porter (1776–1850)
John Addison Porter (1856–1900)
Linn Boyd Porter (1851–1916)
Noah Porter (1811–1892)
Robert Ker Porter (1777–1842)
Mangel de Araújo Porto-Alegre (1806–1879)
Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930)
Posidonius (First Century B.C.)
Charles Potier (1806–1870)
Henry Codman Potter (1834–1908)
Paul Meredith Potter (1853–1921)
William Potts (1838–1908)
Charles Potvin (1818–1902)
Adolph Poujol
Jean Joseph François Poujoulat (1808–1880)
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
Émile Pouvillon (1840–1906)
John Wesley Powell (1834–1902)
Thomas Powell (1809–1887)
Horatio Nelson Powers (1826–1890)
Nicolas Pradon (1632–1698)
Dominique Dufour de Pradt (1759–1837)
Mrs. Campbell Praed (1851–1935)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)
Christen Henriksen Pram (1756–1821)
Giovanni Prati (1814–1884)
Anne Pratt (1806–1893)
Ella Farman Pratt (1837–1907)
Orson Pratt (1811–1881)
Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814)
George Denison Prentice (1802–1870)
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (1818–1878)
Petar Preradović (1818–1872)
William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859)
Edmond de Pressensé (1824–1891)
Harriet Waters Preston (1836–1911)
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897)
Marcel Prévost (1862–1941)
Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles (1697–1763)
Lucien Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1829–1870)
Eleanor Catherine Price
Richard Price (1723–1791)
Sarah Johnson Prichard (1830–1909)
Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724)
Josiah Priest (1788–1851)
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)
Samuel Irenæus Prime (1812–1885)
William Cowper Prime (1825–1905)
Edward Irenæus Prime-Stevenson (1858–1942)
Le Baron Bradford Prince (1840–1922)
John Critchley Prince (1808–1866)
Thomas Pringle (1789–1834)
Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
Alexandre Privat d’Anglemont (1815–1859)
Proclus (412–485)
Procopius (Sixth Century)
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864)
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874)
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923)
Richard Anthony Proctor (1837–1888)
Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.)
Prosper of Aquitaine (Early Fifth Century)
David Law Proudfit (1842–1897)
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)
Léon Provancher (1820–1892)
Richard Orton Prowse (1862–1949)
Abbé Proyart (1743?–1808)
Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849–1924)
Prudentius (348–c. 410)
Séverine Zochowska Pruszakowa (b. c. 1830)
Robert Eduard Prutz (1816–1872)
Richard Pryce (1864–1942)
William Prynne (1600–1669)
Alexander Przezdziecki (1814–1871)
George Psalmanazar (1679?–1763)
Michael Constantine Psellus (1018–c. 1079)
Ptolemy (c. 90–c. 168)
Publilius Syrus (First Century B.C.)
Virgile Pucitelli (d. 1669)
Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871)
Melchior Pudłowski (d. c. 1588)
Jean Louis Scipio Puech (1624–1688)
Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694)
Edwin William Pugh (1874–1930)
Madame de Puisieux (1720–1798)
Jean Baptiste Pujoulx (1762–1821)
Luca Pulci (1431–1470)
Luigi Pulci (1432–1484)
Fernando del Pulgar (1436?–1492)
Giulio Pullè (Riccardo Castelvecchio) (1814–1894)
Leopoldo Pullè (Leo di Castelnovo) (1835–1917)
Elisabeth Jones Cavazza Pullen (1849–1926)
Ferenc Pulszky (1814–1897)
Raphael Pumpelly (1837–1923)
Samuel Purchas (1577?–1626)
Caleb Pusey (1650?–1727)
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882)
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)
Gustav Gans zu Putlitz (1821–1890)
George Haven Putnam (1844–1930)
George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872)
Mary Traill Spence Lowell Putnam (1810–1898)
Théodore Joseph Boudet de Puymaigre (1816–1901)
Gabrjela Puzynina (1815–1867)
Félix Pyat (1810–1889)
Howard Pyle (1853–1911)
William Pynchon (1590–1662)
Peter Pypers (1749–1805)
Immanuel Jakob Pyra (1715–1744)
Pyrrho (b. c. 360 B.C.)
Pythagoras (c. 582–c. 500 B.C.)
Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787–1859)
Francis Quarles (1592–1644)
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810–1892)
Étienne Marc Quatremère (1782–1857)
Chryostome Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849)
Vasco Mauzinho de Quebedo (d. c. 1627)
José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845–1900)
Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809–1889)
Antero de Quental (1842–1891)
François Quesnay (1694–1774)
Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (1838–1923)
Jacques Salbigoton Quesné (1778–1859)
Pierre Quesnel (1699–1774)
Jean Jacques Quesnot de la Chesnée (Eighteenth Century)
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874)
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580–1645)
Jules Étienne Joseph Quicherat (1814–1882)
Louis Quicherat (1799–1884)
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863–1944)
Claude Quillet (1602–1661)
Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)
Edmund Quincy (1808–1877)
Josiah Quincy, Jr. (1744–1775)
Josiah Quincy III. (1772–1864)
Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)
Manuel José Quintana (1772–1857)
Serafin (1871–1938) and Joaquín (1873–1944) Álvarez Quintero
Quintilian (c. 35–c. 95 A.D.)
Domingos dos Reis Quita (1728–1770)