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.
Written during a nostalgic interval during Cooper's stormy battles with the Whig Press, The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the world-famous Leatherstocking Tales in point of composition, though first in the biographical sequence.
The sudden death of a journalist brings secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. Not to the gloomy Moscow of Soviet times, but to modern Moscow awash with oil wealth ruled by a new generation of wealthy Stalinists.
Znanje, 2011.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.86 €
Novel • American literature • A war novel
Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) is a masterpiece of American literature about World War II. The plot follows a platoon of American soldiers on the fictional Pacific island of Anopopeia during their fight against the Japanese army.
Zora, 1964.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
"Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad is a psychological novel that follows the story of Jim, a young British sailor burdened with guilt and shame after abandoning the ship "Patna" with passengers in danger.