Social literature

Nemirni mir

Uneasy Peace (1940) depicts the life of Herzegovinian peasants after World War I, their emigration to Slavonia, the difficult struggle for survival and inner unrest in the apparent peace of the post-war period.

Nikola Baretić

Nikola Baretić follows the fate of the main character in the Senj area, faced with jealousy, marital conflicts and social pressures. A realistic novel about passions, honor and decay in a 19th century petty-bourgeois environment.

Nikome nema povratka

No Return (1938) follows the lives of eight young women in a Roman student dormitory, their loves, ambitions, and fates in Italian society before World War II, showing that the past cannot be returned or escaped from itself.

Nova skrižaljka

The New Crossword is a valuable testimony to Russian society in the turbulent post-revolutionary period – honest, sometimes critical, but always interesting and readable. Today it is appreciated as a fine example of Russian prose of the 1920s.

Novele i pripovijesti

The collection brings together a selection of the author's short prose, reflecting his social engagement and expressionist style. In these works, Cesarec explores the fates of ordinary people, social injustices, and the inner struggles of the individual i

Obećana zemlja 1-2

The novel The Promised Land, published in 1899, is one of the most significant works by Polish Nobel Prize winner Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź at the end of the 19th century, the novel depicts rapid industrialization and its conse

Olga Org: Roman iz ruskoga života

Yuri Slezkin's novel Olga Org, published in 1914, is one of the most significant works of Russian pre-revolutionary literature. The work has gone through more than ten editions and has been adapted for the theater, which testifies to its popularity and in

Oliver Twist I-II

Opustošena zemlja

Otrovana srca / Pobijeljeni grobovi

One of the most prolific Croatian realists and early naturalists with a strong right-wing orientation, in this book he brings together two stories from the Zagreb bourgeois milieu: Poisoned Hearts (1890) and Whitened Graves (1896).