Social literature

Bijedni ljudi

Poor Folk is the first novel by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky. Through the letters of the poor clerk Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, it depicts the lives of people on the margins of society, their loneliness, poverty, and struggle to preserve their dignit

Bijelo prijestolje

A novel set in contemporary life in which the author follows the fates of members of the rural intelligentsia, their ideals, moral dilemmas, and everyday struggles in Croatian society between the two wars.

Blato

Miana Vlaović's debut novel is a story about three generations of women in a patriarchal province, filled with recurring patterns of fate - love, betrayal, poverty, violence, and small struggles for dignity.

Blizu kuće

"Close to Home" (1962) by Erskine Caldwell is a sharp, realistic novel about racism, hypocrisy, and social injustice in the American South during the era of segregation.

Brižljiva opsada

The Careful Siege by Heinrich Böll is a political and social novel that depicts life under constant surveillance and the threat of terrorism. The work explores the conflict between security, freedom, and human dignity.

Brodolom

Shipwreck (1906) is a novel about fate and chance. After a shipwreck, Ramesh and Kamala begin a life together, believing they are married. The novel explores the conflict between duty, love, identity, and social norms in colonial Bengal.

Buđenje

Bura: novele

"Bura" (1928) is a collection of short stories by Ferdo Čulinović. Realistic stories inspired by the author's experience as a judge, with themes of social injustice, the common man, and turbulent social conditions in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes

Careva Kraljevina

Čiča Goriot

Uncle Goriot is one of the most famous and important novels by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1835. It is part of his vast cycle The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), and is considered perhaps the most successful work in that cycle.