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Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b
Marino Zurl (1929–2006), a Croatian writer and publicist, writes in his novel Trumpet for Bleiburg about one of the most controversial and taboo topics in Croatian history – the Bleiburg Massacre and the Stations of the Cross in 1945.
Dumas' version of the story depicts the adventures of d'Artagnan and his friends from 1625 to 1628.
In her second historical novel, the contemporary American writer brings us the story of Nefertari, the niece of the former Queen Nefertiti.
The novel The Forgotten Girl is based on the real life of a member of New York's posh circles, who fought for the rights of Kunić, a group of women who survived the horrors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.