Princess Daisy is a novel about the fate of Marguerite Valensky, daughter of Russian Prince Stash Valensky and American film star Francesca Vernon. The novel manages to reconcile the spirit of former Europe and its nobles with modern values.
A documentary-drama in which London, living among the poor of London's East End in 1902, bears poignant witness to the misery, hunger, and humiliation of the lowest strata of English society in Edwardian England.
Naklada Binoza, 1930.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.42 €
Ethics • 19th-century philosophy • Essays • American literature
The booklet "On Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a Croatian edition of the famous essay from the collection Essays: First Series (1841), one of the foundational texts of American transcendentalism.
Satirical prose, composed of six monologues by Lowell Schmaltz, a typical American traveling salesman, who sings the praises of the American way of life, President Coolidge, business, and "Nordic" superiority.
Naklada Binoza, 1931.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The first part of the epic trilogy U.S.A. John Dos Passos. A mosaic of the fate of ordinary Americans in the period from 1900 to the First World War – ambition, struggle for survival, social unrest and the birth of modern America.
Hrvatska književna naklada neovisnih književnika, 1939.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
4.38 €
American literature • Historical novel • Social literature
A magnificent multi-generational saga about two half-sisters, Effie and Esi, born in 18th century Ghana. One stays in Africa, the other is sold into slavery in America. A poignant story about the legacy of slavery, colonialism and the search for roots.