The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
It is a deeply disturbing text, full of emotions and traumatic experiences of a collapsed, imploded urban individual crying out for the meaning of life.
VBZ, 2014.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
7.82 €
American literature • Teen Novels • Psychological novel • Adventure novel
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first truly realistic children's novel, not only in American but also in world children's literature. Twain's most famous work and a favorite children's book in which the writer described his boyhood experiences.
Nakladni zavod Hrvatske, 1947.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
16.32 €
German literature • Psychological novel • Social literature
In Boll's novels, one of the central themes is the attempt to preserve basic moral values in a time of terror, as well as in a period of material prosperity and corruption.
Cronin's moving story of redemption. Robert Shannon, a fanatical doctor-researcher, sacrifices love and life for science, but in the end loses everything – his girlfriend, recognition, health – only to realize through suffering: medicine without humanity
Otokar Keršovani, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The essays collected in this book reveal the origins and meanders of Sanja Lovrenčić's years-long search for the authentic character of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić.
The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr