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Han-ı Yağma

Han-ı Yağma ("the feast of plunder") is a satirical 1912 poem by Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret attacking the corruption of the Committee of Union and Progress.

Hanaukyo Maid Team (花右京メイド隊)

Hanaukyo Maid Team (花右京メイド隊), also Hanaukyo Maid Tai, is a maid harem love comedy manga by Morishige in Monthly Shonen Champion (1999-2006, 14 volumes), adapted as a 12-episode 2001 anime cut short and a 2004 remake, Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite.

Hands Off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun

Hands Off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun (さわらないで小手指くん) is a Japanese romantic-comedy and ecchi manga by Takuya Shinjō, serialized on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket since 2021; a twelve-episode anime adaptation aired in 2025.

Hangul novel

A Hangul novel (한글소설), also called ko sosŏl, is fiction written in the Hangul alphabet rather than literary Chinese during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), read mainly by women.

Hannibal (Harris novel)

Hannibal is Thomas Harris's 1999 Delacorte novel, the third Hannibal Lecter book and direct sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, in which Mason Verger uses Clarice Starling to lure Lecter from Florence; its 1.3-million first printing and controversial lovers' ending made it a publishing event.

Hannibal Rising

Hannibal Rising: 2006 Thomas Harris prequel novel, fourth Hannibal Lecter book, covering Lecter's WWII childhood, sister Mischa, and revenge; filmed 2007 by Peter Webber with Gaspard Ulliel.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates is Mary Mapes Dodge's 1865 children's novel about a poor Dutch brother and sister hoping to win a skating race; it popularized the finger-in-the-dike story and shaped American images of Holland.

Hansa Sandesha

Hansa Sandesha (හංස සන්දේශය, "The Swan Message") is a Sinhala messenger poem of the Kotte period in Sri Lanka, dated to 1457–1465 and attributed to Vidagama Maithri Thera.

Hanshan

Hanshan (寒山, Cold Mountain) is the name attached to about 300 plain, colloquial Chinese poems, attributed to a Tang dynasty hermit of the Tiantai mountains in Zhejiang.

Hansuli Banker Upakatha

Hansuli Banker Upakatha (হাঁসুলী বাঁকের উপকথা) is a Bengali regional novel by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, set among the Kahar community of Bansbadi village on the Kopai river.

Hanuman Bahuk

Hanuman Bahuk (हनुमान बाहुक) is a 44-verse devotional poem in Braj Bhasha, composed by Tulsidas in his last years in Varanasi to petition Hanuman for relief from severe arm pain.

Hanuman Chalisa

Hanuman Chalisa (हनुमान चालीसा), a 40-verse Awadhi Hindu devotional hymn to Hanuman attributed to 16th-century poet Tulsidas; recited on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with noted textual variants and scholarly questions about authorship.

Haoqiu Zhuan

Haoqiu Zhuan (好逑传), known in English as The Fortunate Union, is a Chinese scholar-beauty novel published anonymously around 1680 and the first Chinese novel translated into a European language.

Happy Kanako's Killer Life

Happy Kanako's Killer Life (幸せカナコの殺し屋生活, Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu) is Toshiya Wakabayashi's full-color yonkoma comedy manga about office worker Kanako Nishino, who accidentally joins an assassination agency. Nine volumes since 2019, over 1.2 million copies, Seven Seas English edition, 2025 DMM TV live-action drama, and an April 2027 TV anime.

Hapworth 16, 1924

"Hapworth 16, 1924" is a long short story by J. D. Salinger, published in The New Yorker in 1965 as the last work he published in his lifetime.

Harabat

Harabat (خرابات) is a three-volume anthology of classical Turkish, Persian, and Arabic poetry compiled by the Ottoman poet Ziya Pasha and printed in Istanbul in 1874–1875.

Harald Kidde

Harald Kidde (1878–1918) was a Danish writer from Vejle whose religiously themed, expressionist novels include his breakthrough Helten (1912) and Jærnet (1918), published shortly before his death.

Harassment Architecture

Harassment Architecture, Mike Ma's 2019 self-published debut book (also styled Harassment Architecture by Mike Ma), is a plotless, violent far-right-adjacent novella about a man seeking America's collapse; third edition July 2021, 146 pages, ISBN 9781795641494.

Hard Is the Road to Shu

"Hard Is the Road to Shu" (蜀道难) is a famous yuefu poem by Tang poet Li Bai describing the perilous road from Chang'an to Sichuan.

Hard Times (novel)

Hard Times: For These Times is an 1854 novel by Charles Dickens, first serialized in Household Words, that satirizes utilitarianism and industrial England through the Gradgrind family in Coketown.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド) is Haruki Murakami's 1985 novel of two alternating narratives, a near-future Tokyo data-processor thriller and a walled-town dream-reading fantasy, translated into English by Alfred Birnbaum in 1991.

Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World (異世界迷宮でハーレムを)

Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World (異世界迷宮でハーレムを, Isekai Meikyū de Harem o) is a Japanese harem-isekai light novel by Shachi Sogano, illustrated by Shiki Douji, serialized on Narō from 2011, published by Hero Bunko from 2012, with a KADOKAWA manga and a 12-episode 2022 Passione anime.

Harem Years

Harem Years is the 1987 English translation of the memoirs of Huda Shaarawi, the Egyptian feminist and nationalist who led women's demonstrations and publicly removed her veil in 1923.

Haridasa Sahitya

Haridasa Sahitya, also called Dasa Sahitya, is the Kannada devotional literature of the Haridasa saint-singers of Karnataka, carrying the Dvaita philosophy of Madhvacharya to ordinary people.

Harinamakeerthanam

Harinamakeerthanam (ഹരിനാമകീർത്തനം) is a sixteenth-century Malayalam devotional poem by Thunchath Ezhuthachan, arranged in Malayalam alphabet order, teaching chanting of the divine name as the highest Vedanta.

Haripath

The Haripath (हरिपाठ) is a sequence of about 28 abhangas in Old Marathi attributed to the saint Dnyaneshwar, which Varkaris of Maharashtra recite daily and sing on the pilgrimage to Pandharpur.

Harivamshapurana

The Harivamshapurana (हरिवंशपुराण), also called Arishtanemi-purana, is a Sanskrit Jaina purana by the monk Jinasena, completed in 783 CE as the first Jaina retelling of the Mahabharata.

Harley Lyrics

The Harley Lyrics are a celebrated group of medieval lyric poems preserved in British Library MS Harley 2253, compiled around 1340 by a scribe active in Ludlow, Shropshire.

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Poetic and Religious Harmonies) is a collection of 47 religious poems by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in Paris in 1830 and later inspiring Franz Liszt's piano cycle of the same name.

Harnâme

Harnâme is a 15th-century allegorical mesnevi of 126 couplets by the Anatolian poet Şeyhî, telling of a donkey who loses his ears and tail envying oxen.