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The monumental cartographic work The New International Atlas by Rand McNally from 1980 provides extremely precise multilingual maps and a detailed overview of the geopolitical landscape of the world during the Cold War.
Military propaganda brochure intended for Croatian Home Guards in World War I. A combination of combat instructions, moral encouragement and national appeal. Extremely rare.
The World Library, Volume 3, edited and published by Iso Velikanović, contains excerpts from The Brothers Karamazov by F. M. Dostoevsky and Without Dogma by H. Sienkiewicz. Designed for self-binding of individual works.
The Bitter Lotus (1936) by Pulitzer Prize-winning Louis Bromfield is a kind of "continuation of the fates" of some of the characters from Bromfield's famous novel The Rains Are Coming, but set in a completely new, independent story.
Croatian-English theoretical-practical grammar with a double dictionary (English-Croatian and Croatian-English) prepared in 1906 in New York by Dragan M. Jagrović for Croatian emigrants.
The oldest preserved Croatian primer and a significant monument of Croatian Glagolitic heritage, printed in Venice by Andrija Torresani. Facsimile reprint from 1983, with transliteration and afterword by Josip Bratulić.
The book has six leaves (11 pages) and is richly illustrated with 20 woodcuts that mark the sections, including a depiction of the twelve apostles. The language is Old Church Slavonic of the Croatian redaction, while the closing prayers are in the Čakavian, a vernacular language, intended for personal devotion, such as prayers at meals.
The content of the primer follows the model of the Lati...
In occupied Prague in 1942, the student Pavel hides the wounded Jewish woman Hana. In danger and fear, a strong love is born between them. The Gestapo discovers them, Pavel dies tortured under investigation, and Hana survives the Holocaust carrying the me
“Romeo, Juliet and the Darkness” (1956) by Jana Otčenáška is a powerful Czech novel about love in the darkest days of the Nazi occupation. The story takes place in Prague in 1942, after Heydrich’s assassination and the imposition of a state of emergency.
Pavel, a student and member of the anti-fascist resistance, is assigned to hide Hana, a young Jewish woman who has escaped from a transport...
The book also deals with the influence of naturalism on literature, especially in the context of European literature of the 19th century.
THE DIARY OF PAULINE P. describes the adventures and problems with which this wiggly and chatty child heroine struggles.
Paulina P. is already known to all children, and this cute little girl found her place in the school textbooks. Paulina P. is talkative, full of ideas, resourceful and imaginative. She completes her life school by observing how her parents, friends, grandmothers, professors or neighbors behave. She watches, listens and thinks about what is happening to her.
"Tales from Long Ago" is Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić's most famous work, translated into about forty languages. With them, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić gained worldwide fame, was nominated twice for the Andersen Award, and has since been called the Croatian Andersen.
"Dad, You're Crazy", a novel by William Saroyan published in 1957, and in Croatia in 1958 in the Vjeverica library, is a moving and autobiographical story told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy, Jamie, inspired by Saroyan's son Aram.
Among Krklec's children's poems, Telegraphic Fables stand out because with them he introduced a completely new form to Croatian children's poetry.
These are not just fables in the full sense of the word, but also true lyrical poems. In them, the poet reduced the story to a minimum, but retained the dialogue, and through its mediation, the dramatic tension. Krklec takes over from traditional fables animal characters with typical character traits. The thematic preoccupation also reveals the characteristic contents of the fable, such as inde...
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