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.
6.24 €
Psychological novel • Serbian literature • First editions
Childhood (1852) is the first book of an autobiographical trilogy (with Adolescence and Youth), where Tolstoy explores the world of childhood through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Nikolinka Irtenjev – innocence, joys, sorrows and first traumas.
Svjetlost, 1971.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.54 €
Erotic Novels • Psychological novel • Social literature • Spanish literature
If you like raw eroticism like Cloud Atlas, this is a sensual saga – emotional, provocative, for those who want to feel the pulse of forbidden passion! Grandes probes whether love is a curse or a liberation?
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.
The debut work of Croatian writer Tomislav Šovagović, awarded the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award in 2012, is a dedication to Slavonia – the region of his childhood that the author, born in Dalmatia, observes with foreign but tender eyes.