Social literature

Redovnica

Redovnica

Denis Diderot

Unloved Suzanne is forcibly imprisoned in a convent. Her letters reveal the hypocrisy, sadism, and mental suffering within the convent walls, as well as her desperate struggle for personal freedom.

Matica hrvatska, 1960.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
2.76 - 6.32
Rimljanka

Rimljanka

Alberto Moravia

Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.

Otokar Keršovani, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
2.76 - 4.96
Rimljanka

Rimljanka

Alberto Moravia

Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.

Minerva, 1959.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
8.46
Rimljanka

Rimljanka

Alberto Moravia

Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.

Minerva, 1984.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.984.49
Rimske priče: izbor

Rimske priče: izbor

Alberto Moravia

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.

Otokar Keršovani, 1966.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
3.98
Robijaši, kolonisti i kanaci

Robijaši, kolonisti i kanaci

Georges Ferre

Convicts, Colonists and Kanaks is a powerful story about life in a French penal colony, which explores justice, freedom and colonial exploitation through the fates of convicts, colonists and Kanaks, while criticizing the dehumanizing system.

Naklada Binoza, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.52
Robinja

Robinja

Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis

Mende Nazer, a girl from the Nuba tribe, was kidnapped at the age of 12 in a raid, sold into slavery in Khartoum, suffered for 7 years, escaped from London in 2000. A moving story of modern slavery.

Znanje, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
12.32
Sabrana dela 10: Mati

Sabrana dela 10: Mati

Pearl S. Buck

A poor Chinese peasant woman, abandoned by her husband, raises three children alone, struggling with hunger, poverty and social pressures. A moving story of maternal strength and sacrifice.

Rad, 1971.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
3.99 - 4.86
Sabrana dela 12: Paviljon žena

Sabrana dela 12: Paviljon žena

Pearl S. Buck

The novel The Pavilion of Women (1946) is one of Pearl S. Buck's most intimate and subtle stories. It is set among the old, wealthy Chinese Wu family, in the years immediately before the Japanese invasion.

Rad, 1978.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
4.96 - 5.34
Sabrana dela 13: Ponosito srce

Sabrana dela 13: Ponosito srce

Pearl S. Buck

One of Pearl S. Buck's less frequently mentioned but very powerful novels (1938), which is quite different from her Chinese sagas. It is the story of a gifted, proud woman who struggles to remain both an artist and a woman, in a world that finds it diffic

Matica srpska, 1980.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.00