Social literature

Crveno i crno

Crveno i crno

Marie-Henry Beyle Stendhal

The novel tells about the social rise of a poor young man, Julien Sorel, in a conservative, counter-revolutionary and authoritarian regime in the era of the re-establishment of the monarchy after the fall of Napoleon and the return of the Bourbon dynasty

Sveučilišna naklada Liber (SNL), 1977.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.624.22
Čudovište iz predgrađa

Čudovište iz predgrađa

Franz Herwig

The novel The Monster from the Suburbs, published in 1936 by the Spiritual Youth Association in Senj, is a contemporary legend that explores the psychological and social aspects of life in urban suburbs.

Zbor duhovne mladeži, 1936.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
7.56
Čuvaj se senjske ruke / Diogenes

Čuvaj se senjske ruke / Diogenes

August Šenoa

Beware of Senja's Hand is a historical and political novel by August Šenoa, written and first published in 1876. Diogenes is Šenoa's last completed historical novel: in a way, it is both experimental and new.

Globus, 1978.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
4.82 - 4.98
Dama s kamelijama

Dama s kamelijama

Alexandre Dumas-Sin

The young Armand Duval falls in love with the courtesan Marguerite Gautier, known as the Lady with the Camellias. Their passionate love is destroyed by social prejudice and victimhood.

Minerva, 1984.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
5.62
Dama s kamelijama

Dama s kamelijama

Alexandre Dumas-Sin

This is the story of the love of two young people, Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval. Although relationships between men and women have always been complicated enough on their own, this is no typical tale of unrequited love.

Večernji list, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.24 - 6.24
Dani jada i glada

Dani jada i glada

Ivan Softa

A novel by Ivan Softa about life in a Herzegovinian village during World War I. It realistically and poignantly depicts misery, hunger, disease, war mobilization, and the suffering of peasants, condemning war and social injustices.

Matica hrvatska, 1937.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
9.72 - 11.34
David Copperfield

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

The novel follows the life of David Copperfield from a difficult childhood to adulthood, through losses, friendships, love mistakes and personal maturation in one of Dickens' most famous works.

Manesse Verlag, 2002.
German. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
9.38
Devojka i golubovi

Devojka i golubovi

Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz

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.

Svjetlost, 1965.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.14
Die Kameliendame

Die Kameliendame

Alexandre Dumas-Sin

The young Armand Duval falls in love with the courtesan Marguerite Gautier, known as the Lady with the Camellias. Their passionate love is destroyed by social prejudice and victimhood.

Deutscher Bücherbund, 1978.
German. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.32
Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera

Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Florentino Ariza waited more than half a century to renew his oath of eternal fidelity and undying love to Fermina Daza, his love from his youthful days, who, after a long and frustrated love affair, had already rejected him once and married someone else.

Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1987.
German. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.42