... and not as a stranger is a romantic novel, very popular in its time, at the top of the list of best-selling novels in America in 1954. It was screened in 1955, produced and directed by the famous director Stanley Kramer.
In Gorski vijenac, Njegoš sings about the "investigation of the wanderers", an event that allegedly took place in Montenegro at the end of the seventeenth century, but about which there is no reliable data in historical science.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
A young diplomat returns from Barcelona devastated by the separation from his beloved woman. However, he soon meets a new love. But when he is about to crown this relationship with marriage, his former girlfriend returns.
Zora, 1955.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
The finale of a powerful saga about female friendship that became the literary hit of the decade. Ferrante's prose is sharp, intimate - like reading a diary of the soul. It reminds us that friendship is war and peace, and the lost girl within us - the key