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Stories from the Island, from the City and from the Mountain (1927) is a collection of autobiographical stories by Vladimir Nazor. Divided into three cycles, it brings back memories from childhood and youth – life on an island, schooling in the city and a
Joseph Fouché (1930) is a brilliant biography of a brilliant and unscrupulous opportunist – a Minister of Police who served all regimes: the Revolution, Napoleon and the Bourbons, becoming a symbol of political cunning and moral emptiness.
The Laughing of Gioconda and Other Stories (1921) is a collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley. It humorously and cynically depicts marital intrigue, the boredom of bourgeois life, human vanity, and the moral decline of modern society.
Papini's "Gog", in the edition with an afterword by Mate Ujević, brings a provocative collection of satirical and philosophical writings that expose human weaknesses, social absurdities and the spiritual crisis of modern man.
Essays I. (1944) collects the author's significant studies on European classics: Tolstoy, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, Zola, Dostoevsky, and the essay "On Two Moralities." Profound modern critical-psychological essayism.
The book systematically explores the fundamental spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic sources of poetry. Through consideration of motifs, tradition, language, religion, and worldview, Grgec shows how poetic expression and experience are shaped.