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"Tales from Long Ago" is Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić's most famous work, translated into about forty languages. With them, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić gained worldwide fame, was nominated twice for the Andersen Award, and has since been called the Croatian Andersen.
The plot of this adventure novel takes place on the American Mississippi River and its banks at a time when steamships sailed this vast river, during the author's childhood.
The novel belongs to the children's historical novel genre with a theme from the second half of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century in Dalmatia.
At a time when he peacefully grazed the lush grass next to his mother in his native green valley, the beautiful young stallion, Black Beauty, could not even dream of all the adventures that would befall him in the future.
A series of children's stories about the kind-hearted doctor John Dolittle who learns to talk to animals, becomes a veterinarian and experiences adventures: he treats monkeys in Africa, sails the sea, rescues a naturalist, encounters pirates and visits ma
The book is an adventure novel for children and young adults, set in the wilderness and imbued with themes of friendship, survival, freedom, and the coexistence of man and nature. The work carries strong elements of animalistic literature, with an emphasi