Short Stories

Historijska čitanka 1

The cult book by Miljenko Jergović – a subjective history of a time, country and city... A historical reader is actually a family album because a person always becomes familiar with people in a time that has passed and which they want to explain.

Hromi plemić

In the short story The Crippled Nobleman, the tragic fate of an unfortunate aristocrat becomes a parable about pride, pain, and transience. The author combines realism and romance into a deeply emotional story about human vulnerability and dignity.

Hrvatska nesanica i druge priče

Hrvatski bog Mars

Miroslav Krleža

Krleža's best-known collection of short stories, The Croatian God Mars, is part of an imagined cycle of literary works with the theme of the First World War and Croatian Home Guards.

Humor i satira

"Humor i Satira" by Radoje Domanović (1935) is a selection of the most famous satirical stories by the Serbian master of satire. A critique of society, politics and mentality through a witty and sharp style.

Humoristička proza

Branislav Nušić

Humorous prose brings together Nušić's autobiographical, essay-serial and narrative texts, in which humor and satire expose school, society, government and human weaknesses.

Idile i sjećanja

"Idylls and Memories" (1893) is a collection of stories by the Croatian writer Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, known for his portrayal of social situations and the landscape of Hrvatski Zagorje.

Ilijina oporuka / Lijepa Anka

August Šenoa

Book 16 of the Collected Works of August Šenoa combines two powerful narratives: a satirical critique of civic immorality and wastefulness in Ilija's Testament and a romantic, dramatic story of unhappy love and social barriers in Lijepa Anka.

Inšallah Madona, inšallah

Inšalh, Madonna, Inšalah by Miljenko Jergović is a collection of stories whose richness of motifs and emotions branches out like carved ivory – in each story a story, in each destiny an entire world.

Island: Collected Stories

These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision.