1000 najljepših novela, sv. 79-81

Before you is volume 79-81 of the famous interwar literary library 1000 Most Beautiful Novels, editorially linked to the name of Ljuba Wiesner and recognizable for its effort to bring a representative selection of world prose to the domestic reader. This volume is particularly interesting because it brings together a diverse and literary valuable selection of authors from different poetics and national traditions.

It includes Pierre Benoit with the story Forgotten, Jakob Schaffner with the text The Smiling Captain, Thomas Hardy with the story The Woman So Wanted, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer with the text Parson Peter, Bret Harte with the story Tennessee's Partner, Felix Timmermans with the text Procession and William Butler Yeats with the story Crvenko Hanrahan. It is precisely this breadth of selection that gives the volume additional anthological and collector's value.

With this copy, you are adding to your collection a characteristic document of the reading and publishing culture of interwar Zagreb, but also an interesting overview of the taste of the time in which world-class authors presented themselves to the local audience through accessible literary series. The volume will be particularly appealing to you if you collect older literary libraries, Zagreb editions from the first half of the 20th century, anthological selections or individual volumes of the 1000 Most Beautiful Novels series. As part of a larger series, it is also desirable for collectors who are trying to assemble the entirety of this famous library.