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.
The novel Iza vrata by Zvonimir Mikulić-Đona is the first novel by the Ljubuški writer, born in Mostar in 1961. The plot follows complex human destinies intertwined through emotional and life stories, set in the Herzegovinian context.
A beautiful, very beautiful book. And sad. And dramatic. And what is enchantingly beautiful and dramatic about it is that sadness does not even for a moment overcome the son of its heroine, Bruria, the author of this book.
Fraktura, 2018.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
14.2210.67 €
Novel • American literature • Romance Novels • Historical novel
An epic tale of love, loss, and survival during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The main character, Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy Georgia plantation owner, faces dramatic changes when the war destroys her world.
Bratstvo-Jedinstvo, 1962.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The book consists of 3 volumes
12.32 - 16.32 €
Novel • German literature • Historical novel
The novel Mahler's Time (2005) is a humorous and intellectually rich fictionalized biography of two German scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Fraktura, 2010.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.54 €
Novel • Francuska književnost • Social literature
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.
Binoza, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.