Historical novel

Zastave 1-5

Flags follows the turbulent period of Croatian history from 1912 to 1922 through the family showdown between the father and son of the Emerics, but the family story is only a basis for problematizing the Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Albanian nationa

Za zemlju

The novel depicts the difficult, primitive and dramatic life of the Ukrainian countryside. Through the fates of peasants fighting for a piece of land and survival, the novel chronicles their love for the soil and their indestructible attachment to their n

Zemlja sreskih galebova

Ženski orkestar

Fanie Fénelon's novel The Women's Orchestra is a memoir that describes her experience of surviving in a women's orchestra at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.

Život Byrona

The biography The Life of Byron (1930) by André Maurois, is a detailed account of the life and works of the English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824).

Zlatarovo zlato

The book 15 Collected Works of August Šenoa is the first Croatian historical novel, published in serial form in Vienac in 1871. The work is the foundation of Šenoa's era (proto-realism) and is one of the most widely read works of Croatian literature.

Zlatarovo zlato

The first Croatian historical novel - the most Zagreb of all stories. It is a story about the forbidden love of a goldsmith's daughter and a nobleman's son on the historical stage of Zagreb's streets and squares in the sixteenth century.

Zvonar bogorodičine crkve

The Bell Tower (1831) is not just a story of love and tragedy – it is a vivid picture of Paris on the threshold of the Renaissance, where the Gothic Notre-Dame Cathedral becomes almost the main character, a living being of stone that breathes history, suf

Zvonar crkve Notre-Dame u Parizu

"The Hunchback of Notre-Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo is a classic of world literature – a romantic historical novel about love, hate and fate in Paris in 1482. With an afterword by Ivo Hergešić.