The selection of Vjenceslav Novak's novels includes those from the school reading list: "Gluttony and Misery", "U glib", "The Narrative", "From the Great Underground" and others.
Die Handlung dieses Abenteuerromans spielt auf dem amerikanischen Mississippi und seinen Ufern zu einer Zeit, als Dampfschiffe diesen riesigen Fluss befuhren, also während der Kindheit des Autors.
Socijalni roman u kojem se na realistično – potresan način prikazuje sudbina dječaka Olivera Twista, prepuštenog nehumanim postupcima činovnika sirotinjskog doma i pogubnom utjecaju ološa s londonskih ulica.