Taras Buljba

Mrtve duše

Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.

Taras Buljba

Crnim po bijelom – priče o knjigama

A popular science book for young people about the history of writing, books, and printing — from prehistoric drawings to the modern printing press. A lively, accessible style by a Soviet author with illustrations by N. Lapshin.

Basne

A selection of satirical fables by Mikhail E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, through allegorical stories, ridicules the arbitrariness of government, bureaucracy, social injustices, and human weaknesses, with sharp humor and irony.

Svjetska knjižnica, Sv. 3.

The World Library, Volume 3, edited and published by Iso Velikanović, contains excerpts from The Brothers Karamazov by F. M. Dostoevsky and Without Dogma by H. Sienkiewicz. Designed for self-binding of individual works.

Preporoditelj prirode: Život Mičurina

A romanticized biography of the great Russian plant breeder Ivan Michurin, who spent decades "transforming" nature with new fruit varieties. A classic Soviet work of popular science in Croatian translation.