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Božja zemlja Nippon: Poučno o Japanu
"God's Land Nippon" by Friedrich K. Haider and Slavko Pavičić is an educational book about Japan, its culture, history, customs and spirituality during World War II. Popular propaganda reading for the NDH.
Cvijet pod staklom
"Flower Under Glass" by Antun Matasović is a collection of short stories, presenting the early stories of the Slavonian Catholic writer with motifs of family, love, everyday life and moral dilemmas. A classic regional reading between the two wars.
Uspomena
Olav Duun's novel "Uspomena" (1932) is a psychological drama about a son's return to his native village after his mother's suspicious death and suspicions about his father. It is one of the few works by Duun available in Croatian at the time.
Izabrane pjesme
*Selected poems* by Milan Begović were published as a regular issue of *Matica hrvatska* for 1923 (published in 1925) in Zagreb. The book presents a carefully selected cross-section of Begović's poetry from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Micek, Mucek i Dedek
A popular children's novel by Mate Lovrak, first published in 1939. Illustrated by the famous artist Andrija Maurović, the book is one of Lovrak's early bestsellers for children.
Sveta Bernardica Subiru: Sveta lurdska pastirica
Biography of St. Bernardine Soubirous (Subiru), a shepherdess of Lourdes to whom Our Lady appeared in 1858. Published according to French sources, with 15 illustrations at the end of the book. Classic Catholic hagiography.
Petar Krešimir
A biographical and historical narrative of King Petar Krešimir IV: from the strengthening of the Croatian state and Church to political tensions and sea battles. It reads like a living lesson of the Middle Ages. First edition.
Nos
The satirical magazine Nos (vol. 1, May 10, 1917) by Zyra Vukelić pokes fun at everyday wartime life and domestic vanities: short, sharp sketches about politics, journalism, and "reputation," written in the midst of World War I.
Radmilović
Radmilović (1913) is Gjalski's novel about the collision of ideals and reality: an intellectual full of high principles gets stuck in provincial politics, love and ambition, while the masks of decency slowly peel away.
Bijedne priče
Gjalski's Miserable Stories (1913) is a collection of short prose pieces that examine the silent misery and fragile hope of "little" people under a magnifying glass; the elegance of style and gentle irony reveal the conflict between desire, duty, and a se