"Taras Bulba" is a short historical novel by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol from the series "Mirgorod".
The plot of the novel concerns the history of Zaporozhian Cossacks. The main character is Taras Buljba, an old Cossack, who, with his sons Andrija and Ostap, sets out to fight against the Polish nobility and defend Orthodoxy.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
The story of the Finnish peasant Einari Pitkänen, who, amidst the upheavals of war and social change, journeys from a destitute, dependent laborer to an enlightened man who discovers his own dignity.
Novo pokoljenje, 1949.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
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Moral and didactic literature • Russian literature • Pedagogy
A novel based on the experiences of the Soviet educator Makarenko regarding the rehabilitation of abandoned and delinquent youth through shared work, collective living, discipline, and the development of personal responsibility.
A mystical and tragic novella about the lonely Jakov, who becomes obsessed with the image of the mysterious Klara following her suicide, blurring the boundaries between reality, death, and love.
Matica hrvatska, 1964.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.