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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.
Ivan Pregelj (1883–1960), a Slovenian writer, professor, and Catholic intellectual, briefly taught at the Pazin Gymnasium. The fruit of that experience was the story Božji mejniki (God's Milestones) (1925), later published under the title Plovan pre Šime.
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.
Collections of short stories from Roman life in the post-war era: ordinary people from the people and the petty bourgeoisie – the poor, workers, small craftsmen – face misery, survival, jealousy, petty deceit and moral compromises in everyday life.
A collection of realistic short stories by Vjenceslav Novak with themes of social struggle, family life and the everyday lives of ordinary people. It depicts the difficult life, moral dilemmas and humanity in difficult social conditions of the 19th centur
The fourth volume of Chekhov's works contains novellas and humoresques, which were mostly written in 1886. Still writing for a fee in daily newspapers, Chekhov often had to subordinate his art to comprehensibility and cheap humor due to the taste of the r