Socijalna književnost

Šeširdžijin zamak

The novel is a dark tale of destructive ambition, class discrimination, domestic violence and Victorian repression, inspired by Dickens' style but with Cronin's social realism. A 1942 film adaptation starring Robert Newton.

Shirley

The novel Shirley (1849) is Charlotte Brontë's second social novel after Jane Eyre, depicting the industrial crisis caused by the Napoleonic Wars and the blockade of trade, where machines replace workers, causing discontent and violence.

Sinovi

The novel Sons by the Russian author Valery Smirnov is a powerful socio-psychological story about family, inheritance and moral dilemmas.

Sjaj i bijeda kurtizana

The Splendor and Misery of a Courtesan is part of Balzac's collection The Human Comedy. The novel follows the fate of Lucien de Rubempré, an ambitious young poet, and his relationship with the mysterious Vautrin, an ex-convict, in the world of Parisian de

Sjeverno svjetlo

A.J. Cronin's novel follows an honest newspaper editor who faces moral dilemmas and the machinations of powerful media corporations in a struggle to preserve his integrity.

Sluga Jan

Smijeh u džungli: Autobiografija jednog američkog useljenika

An autobiographical work by Louis Adamič, a Slovenian-American writer and one of the most important chroniclers of the immigrant experience in American literature. It ironically and honestly portrays the reality behind the myth of the "land of opportunity

Snijeg

The poet Ka comes to Kars, cut off by snow, to write a report, but he falls into a whirlwind of political and religious conflicts, a political coup and his own obsessive search for love and peace.

Socijalno pitanje

Social Issue (1926) is a shorter study of the Catholic approach to social problems. It emerged from lectures by the Croatian Catholic Movement and deals with the labor question, inequality, and Christian solutions in contrast to socialism and liberalism.

Španjolski vrtlar

Cronin's novel masterfully depicts the conflict between cold intellect and warmth of heart, the harmfulness of possessive love and the healing power of true human intimacy. The novel is at once a tender story about a child's soul and a sharp critique of e