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His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials is an epic fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman, consisting of Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).

Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César

Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, also known as the Estoires Rogier, is a French universal chronicle composed in Flanders around 1208 to 1213 for Roger IV, châtelain of Lille.

Historia antigua de México

Historia antigua de México is a history of prehispanic Mexico written by the exiled Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavijero and first published in Italian in 1780.

Historia de la conquista de México

Historia de la conquista de México is a 1552 chronicle by Francisco López de Gómara, detailing the conquest of the Aztec Empire and serving as an influential early account.

Historia de la eternidad

Historia de la eternidad is a 1936 book of essays by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Buenos Aires and expanded in 1953.

Historia de la Nueva México

Historia de la Nueva México is a 1610 Spanish epic poem by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá narrating Juan de Oñate's 1598 expedition into New Mexico.

Historia de los indios de la Nueva España

Historia de los indios de la Nueva España (History of the Indians of New Spain) is a sixteenth-century chronicle by the Franciscan missionary Motolinía on Mexico's Indigenous peoples.

Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana

Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana is an 1887 three-volume biography of José de San Martín by Bartolomé Mitre, the foundational Argentine account of the liberator.

Historia de una pasión argentina

Historia de una pasión argentina is a 1937 autobiographical essay by Eduardo Mallea, published by editorial Sur in Buenos Aires and regarded as his most important essay.

Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú

Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú is a sixteenth-century Spanish chronicle by Agustín de Zárate, first printed in Antwerp in 1555, covering Peru's conquest and Inca empire.

Historia eclesiástica indiana

Historia eclesiástica indiana is a chronicle of the evangelization of New Spain written by Franciscan friar Jerónimo de Mendieta at the end of the 16th century.

Historia natural de Nueva España

Historia natural de Nueva España is a Latin survey of New Spain's plants, animals, and minerals by Francisco Hernández de Toledo after a 1570–1577 expedition.

Historia Regum Britanniae

Historia Regum Britanniae, also known as De gestis Britonum, is a largely fictitious Latin history of pre-Saxon Britain written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 1130s.

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, Bernal Díaz del Castillo's eyewitness chronicle of the conquest of Mexico, finished 1568, first printed Madrid 1632, written against Gómara's Cortés-centered account.

Historical fantasy

Historical fantasy combines researched historical texture with fantastic elements, placing magic in a specific time and place. It can feature magic coexisting invisibly with ordinary history.

Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre of narratives set in the past, also called the historical novel, founded by Sir Walter Scott. Defined as fiction set 50 or more years before writing, it is widely used in classrooms and shaped by debates over accuracy and anachronism.

Historical romance

Historical romance is a popular fiction genre in which a central love story with an optimistic ending is set in a historical period, spanning Regency, medieval, and Western romance.

History of Arda

History of Arda: the internal chronology of Tolkien's legendarium world Arda (the whole world, part of Eä; Middle-earth is only its North-west), from the Ainulindalë through the Years of the Trees and the First to Third Ages, reconstructed from The Silmarillion and the History of Middle-earth.

History of Karabakh

History of Karabakh, also rendered Tarikh-e Qarabagh, is an 1847 Persian chronicle of the Karabakh khanate written by former vizier Mirza Jamal Javanshir for the Russian viceroyalty of the Caucasus.

History of Modern Serbian Literature

History of Modern Serbian Literature (Историја нове српске књижевности) is Jovan Skerlić's 1912 history of Serbian literature from the 18th century to his own time.

History of the Caucasian Albanians

The History of the Caucasian Albanians is a medieval Armenian compilation attributed to Movses Kaghankatvatsi, the principal source on Caucasian Albania from the 4th to 10th centuries.

History of the French Revolution

History of the French Revolution (Histoire de la Révolution française) is a seven-volume work by French historian Jules Michelet, published from 1847 to 1853 and ending at the fall of Robespierre in 1794.

History of the House of Artsruni

The History of the House of Artsruni (Պատմութիւն տանն Արծրունեաց) is a medieval Armenian chronicle begun by Tovma Artsruni in the 870s and completed by an anonymous continuator in the 10th century.

History of the Romanians

History of the Romanians (Istoria românilor) is a ten-volume national history of Romania by the historian Nicolae Iorga, published in Bucharest between 1936 and 1939.

History of the short story

The history of the short story traces how brief prose fiction became a distinct published literary form in the nineteenth century, built on older traditions like parables.

History of Vardan and the Armenian War

History of Vardan and the Armenian War (Armenian: Վարդանի և հայոց պատերազմի մասին) is a 5th-century chronicle by Yeghishe on the Armenian revolt against Sasanian Persia.

Hit-Girl

Hit-Girl is the superhero name of Mindy McCready (Macready in films), the child assassin of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s Kick-Ass comics and films, played by Chloë Grace Moretz, with her own Marvel Icon and Image spin-off series.

Hitoner (ヒトナー)

Hitoner (ヒトナー) is a shōnen sci-fi manga by Tomohiro Yagi on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+, one-shot 2024, serialized from April 2026, about a human astronaut on a beast-folk star.

Hitopadesha

The Hitopadesha is a Sanskrit collection of animal fables and didactic tales compiled by Narayana Pandit, most likely between 800 and 950 CE, as a reworking of the Panchatantra.

HMS Surprise (novel)

H.M.S. Surprise (HMS Surprise) is Patrick O'Brian's 1973 novel, third in the Aubrey-Maturin series, following Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin as the frigate Surprise carries an envoy to India and fights Admiral Linois, based on the real 1804 China Fleet action.