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 beautiful southern girl, Claudelle English, after a serious betrayal in love decides to take revenge on life and men. She turns into a seductress and causes a scandal in a small town in Georgia.
Minerva, 1960.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.46 €
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.
Vlastita naklada, 1915.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
4.36 €
American literature • Psychological novel • Autobiographies and Memoirs
In her book "The Exile," Pearl S. Buck writes a poignant biography of her mother, Caroline Sydenstricker - an American who went to China as a young missionary, where she spent a life full of suffering, loss, and feelings of complete alienation.
Savremena biblioteka, 1939.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.56 €
American literature • Documentary literature • Slovenian literature • Social literature • Political-historical essays
The book documents a century of violence in the American labor movement — from 19th-century mining strikes to bombings and clashes with police — and exposes the brutal background to America's "class war."
Naklada Binoza, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.