Essays and diaries • Autobiographies and Memoirs
Varšavske beležnice : (1978 - 1984)
Kazimierz Brandys
One of the leading Polish writers from the end of the 20th century published his Diaries in 1981 and 1982, which cover the turbulent period of events in Poland in 1978-1984. This is a book of selections from those diary entries.
A popular science work in which Asimov, combining scientific rigor with a lucid style, explores possible threats to the survival of humanity, systematizing disasters according to their nature and probability.
August Cesarec, 1981.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.46 €
Essays • British literature • Essays and diaries • Travel Books
British philosopher Alain de Botton turns travel into a philosophical meditation – the art of discovering ourselves and the world. Through personal anecdotes and references to classics, he explores why we travel, what we seek, and why we are often disappo
SysPrint, 2005.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
13.26 €
Essays and diaries • Croatian literature • Autobiographies and Memoirs
Vladimir Devidé, a Croatian mathematician, Japanologist and essayist, creates an intimate, fragmentary autobiography in Anti-Diary of Recollections through around twenty texts – essays, stories, humorous and satirical articles, travelogues, reflections an
Znanje, 1995.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
11.26 €
Bosnian literature • Essays and diaries • Croatian literature • Literary criticism • Serbian literature • Travel Books
"Paths, faces, landscapes" is a collection of essays and writings by Ivo Andrić, first published in 1963. This work differs from Andrić's fiction because it deals with philosophical, introspective and autobiographical considerations.
Svjetlost, 1988.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.42 €
Essays and diaries • German literature • Autobiographies and Memoirs
Goethe's greatest autobiographical prose, written between 1811 and 1833, covers his life from his birth in 1749 in Frankfurt to 1775, when he went to Weimar at the invitation of Duke Karl August.
Matica hrvatska, 1953.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
18.42 €
Essays and diaries • Croatian literature • A war novel
A moving and poignant chronicle of the siege and destruction of Vukovar in 1991 through 57 short "postcard" chapters. Pavličić does not write from the perspective of an "ordinary" Zagreb resident who spent the summer of 1991 in Vukovar, and then followed