Historical novel

Zaboravljene djevojke

The novel The Forgotten Girl is based on the real life of a member of New York's posh circles, who fought for the rights of Kunić, a group of women who survived the horrors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Zaljev Chesapeake

An epic novel that traces the history of the eponymous bay on the east coast of the United States from the 16th century to the 1970s. Through generations of family and historical events, Michener explores man's relationship with nature, social change, and

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.

Zmaj od Bosne

The Dragon of Bosnia (1898) is a historical novel by Josip Eugen Tomić about Captain Husein Gradaščević, leader of the Bosnian movement for autonomy. The work combines historical facts, political conflicts, and a romantic plot.