These stories show the problems of Croatian everyday life in the 19th century - the disintegration of traditional Slavonian village life, the disappearance of rural cooperatives, the sale of land to foreigners, the departure of peasants to the city.
"Between Light and Darkness" is a short story by Josip Kozarac in which the author depicts a person's inner struggle between moral values (light) and weakness, temptation, and wrong decisions (darkness).
Childhood (1852) is the first book of an autobiographical trilogy (with Adolescence and Youth), where Tolstoy explores the world of childhood through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Nikolinka Irtenjev – innocence, joys, sorrows and first traumas.
Everyone already knows about the multiple award-winning author of children's novels, and even young readers know very well that he writes interesting and suspenseful books that are easy to read.