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A collection of short stories that realistically and patriotically portrays life and events from the period of absolutism and the Bach regime, the military administration, Croatian officers, ordinary people and their fates in difficult times.
Between 1892, when "The Fragment", the first novella in this book, was published, and "The Peasant" (1897) and "On the Carts" (1897), A. P. Chekhov made a series of other artistically successful observations of the society in which he lived.
A collection of the best stories by Elin Pelin, translated by Ivan Esih. It brings powerful, realistic and warm stories from the Bulgarian countryside – poverty, suffering, cunning, humor and the deep humanity of the ordinary peasant.
Young Edek lives with his elderly father who tries to keep his son by his side. The boy's longing for freedom and a girl clashes with his father's possessiveness. The pigeons symbolize unattainable freedom. The conflict leads to a tragic ending.
The Pentalogy of Tragedies is a collection of five dark, philosophical dramas that explore human guilt, suffering, and moral limits. The characters, faced with their own evil, discover how difficult it is to preserve humanity in a world without meaning.
"The Hunt for the Two-Faced Goose" is a humorous story by Mark Twain in which the author depicts human greed, gullibility, and a tendency to exaggerate through comic situations.