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.
A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley romances, Cooper's novel centers on Harvey Birch, an ordinary man suspected of being a spy for the British.
Svjetlost, 1963.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.72 - 3.98 €
American literature • Literature for children • Historical novel
The Last of the Mohicans is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book of the Pentalogy Tales of the Leather Stocking and the most familiar to the modern audience. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later, in 1840
Veselin Masleša, 1962.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
2.78 €
Novel • Historical novel • Croatian literature
The historical novel The Bloody Council of Križevci by Milutin Mayer, first published in 1935, tells a dramatic story about one of the most tragic events in Croatian history – the massacre at the council in Križevci in 1397.
Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1971.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
"The Travnik Chronicle" (1945) is a historical story set in Travnik from 1807 to 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars and Ottoman rule in Bosnia. Written during World War II, it is modeled after the European realist novel.