Humor and Satire

Žena i njen pajac

The novel The Woman and Her Clown by Pierre Louÿs tells the passionate story of the beautiful Conchita and her lover André, whose relationship of passion, jealousy, and humiliation shows how love can become a game of power and cruelty.

Žene, bajke, kraljice

Women, Fairy Tales, Queens – is the first in a series of story collections intended for an adult audience in which nine Croatian female writers decided to give voice to female characters from fairy tales.

Životinjska farma

"Animal Farm" is a short satirical dystopian novel by British writer George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), one of the most influential works of the 20th century. Orwell uses a simple, fairy-tale style to criticize totalitarianism and government corruption.

Životne pojave

Life's Phenomena (1970) is a novel that, although less well-known than Hall's country songs, offers a warm story of the lives of ordinary people in rural America. Set in Tennessee, the novel follows the everyday lives of small communities through the pris

Zlatno tele

The Golden Calf (1931) is a brilliant satirical picaresque adventure, a sequel to the legendary 12 Chairs, where the great schemer Ostap Bender returns in full glory – charming, cynical, irredeemably cunning and always one step ahead of everyone else.

Zlatno telešce

The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall

Znanstveni heureka Maskolta Miška

Žrtva lihvara

Svatopluk Čech's novella depicts the conflict between the peaceful, honest manager of Hrdlička and the ruthless usurer Jestřáb. The story is a harsh social critique of usury, exploitation, and the downfall of the common man under the pressure of monetary