The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
A novel about a strong and untamable prospector for gold in Alaska, Burning Daylight, who, after becoming immensely rich, faces the corruption of the big city, love, and a crisis of meaning in life. One of London's most successful novels.
Naklada Binoza, 1932.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Tito Dorčić follows the tragic fate of the son of a fisherman from Senj, who is sent by his father to study law in Vienna. Torn between family tradition, social expectations and his own nature, Tito experiences an inner breakdown and ruin.
Minerva nakladna knjižara, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
5.76 €
Croatian literature • Psychological novel • Social literature
Obstacles (1905) is a novel that depicts personal and social obstacles in Croatian bourgeois life. The central theme is the conflict of ideals, love, and duty with social norms, moral expectations, and class barriers.
The Youth of Toma Ivić (1928) is an autobiographical novel by Mate Ujević. It depicts the spiritual wanderings, youthful crises, and final religious conversion of a sensitive young man in the Herzegovina-Dalmatia setting.
The novel One Marriage by American author Pearl S. Buck deals with a love story that develops between two people from completely different cultural and social backgrounds in the post-war period.