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.
Pavao Šegota, a gifted young man from a poor Podgora region, goes to study in Prague. The novel follows his struggle with his new surroundings, love, poverty and disappointments. A realistic portrayal of the ruin of talent in a foreign land.
Mark Twain worked in parallel on three mysterious manuscripts set in the past and in three different settings, with the same diabolically charming young Satan, after whose appearance among people, unusual supernatural events occur.
Svjetlost, 1960.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
4.00 €
Humor and Satire • Psychological novel • Russian literature
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall
Naklada Binoza, 1934.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
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.
Bratstvo-Jedinstvo, 1965.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.10 €
Psychological novel • Scandinavian literature
The novel follows the failed priest Gøsta Berling, who, in the company of unusual characters on Ekeby, goes from a debauched wanderer to a man capable of love, responsibility and moral revival.
This is a historical novel in which the author reveals so-called contemporary history as an essential determinant of our living reality in all its dimensions.