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.
The Asylum (1996) by Patrick McGrath is a gothic psychological thriller, narrated by Dr. Peter Cleave, a psychiatrist at a maximum security mental institution in England in the 1950s. Dive into the darkness of passion that breaks down all walls...
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
Mladost, 1990.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.96 - 4.98 €
British literature • Romance Novels • Historical novel • Psychological novel
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.
Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1977.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.32 €
Erotic Novels • Croatian literature • Psychological novel
Branislav Glumac published a novel without periods or commas in 1974, as the relentless stream of thought of a young rebel. Published in socialist Yugoslavia, the work caused a scandal with its openness and became a classic about generational rebellion.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).