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.
A romanticized account of the author's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1986. This experience of one of the three sacred paths of antiquity became a true initiation for him and changed him forever.
The novel The Apostate by Russian author Vladimir Lidin, published in 1934 in Zagreb in the translation by Iso Velikanović, presents a powerful psychological and moral drama set in the student milieu of Soviet Russia.