The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
Ivan Aralica's novel Dogs in the Market Place (1986) is set in 18th-century Dalmatia, during the period of Venetian rule. The work is a historical novel with elements of philosophical reflection, characteristic of Aralica's style.
Večernji list, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
3.86 - 3.92 €
Painting • Biography • American literature • Art history • Historical novel
A fictionalized biography of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The author uses the fictional character of Dr. Joannis van Loon, Rembrandt's alleged friend and personal physician, to tell the artist's life story through his "diaries."
Nakladni zavod Josip Čaklović, 1941.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
11.42 €
Novel • American literature • Historical novel
Rob J. Cole, a gifted Englishman, travels to Persia in the 11th century to study medicine under Avicenna. Pretending to be Jewish, he overcomes dangers, learns advanced methods, and struggles with love, faith, and identity to become a skilled physician.
Mozaik knjiga, 2016.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
14.72 €
American literature • Historical novel • Romance Novels
The novel The Rose Garden by author Susanna Kearsley tells the enchanting story of a young woman who, returning to her childhood home, discovers the secrets of the past and an unexpected connection to a long-lost love story.
Mozaik knjiga, 2020.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
9.56 €
American literature • Literature for children • Historical novel
The Last of the Mohicans is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book of the Pentalogy Tales of the Leather Stocking and the most familiar to the modern audience. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later, in 1840
Veselin Masleša, 1962.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
2.78 €
Esotericism • German literature • Fantastic literature • Horror/Gothic • Historical novel
The Angel of the West Window is a strange fictional novel by Gustave Meyrink steeped in alchemical, hermetic, occult and mystical imagery and ideas, interweaving the life of Elizabethan magician Dr. John Dee with that of a fictional modern descendant, Bar