Social literature

Oliver Twist

Dickens' famous novel about the painful upbringing of the orphan Oliver Twist is a fascinating story of evil and a touching story for all time, which has captivated new generations of readers for more than a century and a half. New, corrected edition.

Oliver Twist I-II

Opustošena zemlja

Otpadnik

The novel The Apostate by Russian author Vladimir Lidin, published in 1934 in Zagreb in the translation by Iso Velikanović, presents a powerful psychological and moral drama set in the student milieu of Soviet Russia.

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).

Panoptikum

A powerful debut novel about fifteen-year-old Anais in a closed juvenile detention center. A poignant story of trauma, resistance, surveillance, and the search for identity in a system that destroys.

Patnici: drama u 3 čina / Krštenje u dobroj volji: komedija u 1 činu

Two plays by Josip Selak (J. S. Savinski) – a serious portrayal of suffering in three acts and a humorous one-act play about good intentions and intrigue. Works by a lesser-known Croatian playwright and businessman from the early 20th century.

Patriot

The Patriot (1928) is a novel by Upton Sinclair that explores themes of political idealism, corruption, and the struggle for justice in America during the turbulent social and political turmoil of the early 20th century.

Pelle osvajač

The novel by Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø is a monumental work that follows the life of Pelle Karlsson, a poor Swedish boy who migrates with his father Lasse to the Danish island of Bornholm in search of a better life.

Plodovi zemlje: Knjiga I

A novel by Liviu Rebreanu, considered by many to be the founder of the modern Romanian novel. Ion Glanetaș, an ambitious young peasant in a Transylvanian village, is obsessed with the desire for land. A classic novel about greed and fate.