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.
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 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
The novel One Hundred Years by Dario Harjaček provides a panoramic view of Trešnjevka and its inhabitants through a century of changes, ideologies, and human destinies – a mosaic of Zagreb in which life, art, and history intertwine.
It is known that as a teenager, Tarantino, who was obsessed with Elmore Leonard's writing, stole his novel "The Switch" from a bookstore, in order to be caught and punished... Many years later, he made "Jackie Brown" based on Leonard's novel "Rum Punch"