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Hikayat Perang Sabil
Hikayat Perang Sabil, also called Hikayat Prang Sabi, is an Acehnese verse text on holy war, recited before battle to strengthen resistance against Dutch colonial rule in the Aceh War.
Hikayat Prang Sabi
Hikayat Prang Sabi, also called Hikayat Prang Kaphe, is an Acehnese heroic epic poem written in Jawi script, best known through the version of Teungku Chiek Pante Kulu.
Hikayat Raja Bersiong
Hikayat Raja Bersiong is a classical Malay story about a Kedah king who developed a taste for human blood, grew fangs, and was driven from his throne by a popular revolt.
Hikayat Raja Donan
Hikayat Raja Donan is a Malay folk romance whose prince, set adrift at sea as an infant, grows into a wandering champion with a magic flute.
Hikayat Sang Boma
Hikayat Sang Boma, also known as Hikayat Maharaja Boma, is a classical Malay hikayat retelling the story of Krishna and Boma, probably composed in the 15th or 16th century.
Hikayat Seri Rama
Hikayat Seri Rama, the Malay prose version of the Rāmāyaṇa, reworks the Sanskrit epic in a Malay and sometimes Islamic frame, surviving in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscripts.
Hikayat Si Miskin
Hikayat Si Miskin, also known as Hikayat Maharaja Marakarma, is a classical Malay romance whose poor hero rises to kingship through found gold and magic.
Hikma poetry
Hikma poetry, also called wisdom poetry (شعر الحكمة), is a classical Arabic genre distilling counsel and moral instruction into verse, later led by Abu al-Atahiyah and al-Ma'arri.
Hilda (graphic novel series)
Hilda graphic novel series by Luke Pearson: six Nobrow/Flying Eye children's comics from Hildafolk (2010) to Hilda and the Mountain King (2019), Scandinavian folklore setting, basis of the Netflix animated series.
Hildebrandslied
The Hildebrandslied ("Lay of Hildebrand") is an Old High German heroic lay in alliterative verse, recorded at Fulda around 830/40, telling of a combat between Hildebrand and his unrecognized son Hadubrand.
Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is J.D. Vance's 2016 Harper memoir of growing up in Middletown, Ohio, with Appalachian roots; a #1 bestseller, 2020 Ron Howard film, and springboard to his vice presidency.
Hills Like White Elephants
Hills Like White Elephants is Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story, first published in transition and collected in Men Without Women, told almost entirely in dialogue between an American and the girl Jig at a Spanish railway station, circling an unnamed abortion.
Hima-Ten!
Hima-Ten! (ひまてん！, Himaten!) is Genki Ono's romantic comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2024-2026, 96 chapters in 11 volumes, about house-cleaner Tenichi Iemori and cosmetics-brand president Himari Yoshino.
Himegoto (ひめごと)
Himegoto (ひめゴト), also known as Secret Princess, is a Japanese four-panel comedy manga by Norio Tsukudani serialized 2011–2015 in four Ichijinsha magazines, collected in six volumes, about a boy cross-dressing to repay debt; anime adaptation by Asahi Production aired in 2014.
Himfy's Loves
Himfy's Loves (Himfy szerelmei) is a two-part cycle of love poems by the Hungarian poet Sándor Kisfaludy, published in Buda in 1801 and completed in 1807.
Hinamatsuri (ヒナまつり) (manga)
Hinamatsuri (ヒナまつり) is a comedy manga by Masao Ōtake about yakuza Nitta and the telekinetic girl Hina. Serialized 2010–2020 in Fellows!/Harta, 19 volumes, adapted into a 12-episode 2018 anime by feel.
Hind Swaraj
Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule) is a short political tract written by Mohandas Gandhi in Gujarati in 1909 aboard the Kildonan Castle, criticizing modern civilization and redefining swaraj as both home rule and moral self-rule.
Hindi autobiographical literature
Hindi autobiographical literature is life writing in Hindi, from Banarasidas's Ardhakathā of 1641 to the Dalit and women's autobiographies that reshaped the genre from the 1990s.
Hindi detective fiction
Hindi detective fiction, also known as jasoosi upanyas, is a popular genre of detective and crime novels written in Hindi, sold chiefly at railway stations and footpath bookstalls.
Hindi epic poetry
Hindi epic poetry (Hindi mahakavya) is the tradition of long narrative poems in Hindi and its dialects, adapting the Sanskrit mahakavya, with Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas and Prasad's Kamayani among its greatest works.
Hindi essay
The Hindi essay (निबंध, nibandh) is a prose genre in Hindi literature in which a writer presents a subject through personal thought, reasoning, and feeling.
Hindi literature
Hindi literature (हिन्दी साहित्य): writing in Hindi dialects Brajbhasha, Awadhi, Khari Boli over four periods (Adikal, Bhaktikal, Ritikal, Adhunik), with modern figures like Dwivedi and Premchand and Sahitya Akademi recognition.
Hindi novel
The Hindi novel (हिन्दी उपन्यास) is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Hindi, arising under Bengali influence in the nineteenth century and given mature form by Premchand.
Hindi Partition literature
Hindi Partition literature is the body of Hindi fiction, poetry, and drama about the 1947 Partition of British India, including Yashpal's Jhootha Sac and Sahni's Tamas.
Hinemoa and Tūtānekai
Hinemoa and Tūtānekai (Hinemoa rāua ko Tūtānekai) is a Māori love story of the Te Arawa iwi, in which Hinemoa swims across Lake Rotorua, guided by flute music, to join Tūtānekai on Mokoia Island.
Hinilawod
Hinilawod is an epic chant of the Sulod (Panay Bukidnon) people of central Panay in the Philippines, meaning "Tales of the Halawod River," running over 28,000 verses and about three days of continuous recitation.
Hiram Lodge
Hiram Lodge, originally introduced as Burton Lodge, is the wealthy father of Veronica Lodge in Archie Comics, first appearing in Pep Comics #31 (September 1942); later the villainous father in Riverdale, played by Mark Consuelos.
Hiroshima (book)
Hiroshima (book), John Hersey's 1946 New Yorker report and Knopf book, tells six Hiroshima survivors' stories; filled an entire issue, sold over 3.5 million copies, banned in Japan until 1949.
Hiroshima Diary
Hiroshima Diary (ヒロシマ日記) is the journal of physician Michihiko Hachiya, a wounded survivor who directed relief at a Hiroshima hospital after the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945.
Hiroshima Notes
Hiroshima Notes (Hiroshima nōto, ヒロシマ・ノート) is a 1965 collection of essays and reportage on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the Japanese novelist Ōe Kenzaburō, the 1994 Nobel laureate.