Spanish stories / Guentos espanoles (A dual-language book)

The Secret Garden

Rusvaj i druge novele

"Rusvaj and Other Novels" by Josip Crepić-Aurel is a collection of realistic stories from Slavonian, Đakovo and rural life. An early work by the Slavonian storyteller with motifs of everyday life, customs and human destinies.

Tri mučenice: Tri izvorne pripovijesti

Three Martyrs by Eugen Kumičić (1888) is a naturalistic novel about the fate of three women from different social classes who suffer because of love, social norms, and male selfishness in bourgeois Zagreb.

Puste želje: Sedam novela

A collection of seven short stories in which the author combines realistic issues with fantasy, irony and psychological insights, depicting human longings, illusions and disappointments in the modern world.

Agostino

Thirteen-year-old Agostino spends the summer at the seaside with his beautiful widowed mother. When she becomes close to her lover, the boy feels rejected and joins the company of rough local boys to get revenge and grow up.

Začarano ogledalo

The Enchanted Mirror is a psychological novella by Fran Galović about a young intellectual torn between reality and his own perceptions. The motif of the mirror becomes a symbol of self-knowledge, illusion, and spiritual disintegration.