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 Man and the Boy" by Tony Parsons, a debut novel published in 1999, tells the story of Harry Silver, a thirty-year-old successful TV producer in London, whose perfect life is ruined by an affair.
The trip to the Karst is a small episode in the hero's life, but it perfectly revives the spirit of the turn of the century that is best characterized by Hans Driesch, a scientist, future philosopher, and founder of vitalism.
Fraktura, 2017.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The plot of the book focuses on the lives of craftsmen and their workers in rural areas, exploring the themes of social injustice, poverty, the conflict between traditional values and modernization, and the challenges faced by people on the margins of s