Social literature

Novele i pripovijesti

The collection brings together a selection of the author's short prose, reflecting his social engagement and expressionist style. In these works, Cesarec explores the fates of ordinary people, social injustices, and the inner struggles of the individual i

Obećana zemlja 1-2

The novel The Promised Land, published in 1899, is one of the most significant works by Polish Nobel Prize winner Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź at the end of the 19th century, the novel depicts rapid industrialization and its conse

Od tri milijuna njih trojica: Roman suvremene nezaposlenosti

"Three Million Three" (1933) by Leonhard Frank is a social novel about unemployment during the Great Depression. It follows the fates of three German workers who wander around looking for work and escape from poverty.

Olga Org: Roman iz ruskoga života

Yuri Slezkin's novel Olga Org, published in 1914, is one of the most significant works of Russian pre-revolutionary literature. The work has gone through more than ten editions and has been adapted for the theater, which testifies to its popularity and in

Oliver Twist

Dickens' famous novel about the painful upbringing of the orphan Oliver Twist is a fascinating story of evil and a touching story for all time, which has captivated new generations of readers for more than a century and a half. New, corrected edition.

Oliver Twist I-II

Oliver Twist, a boy from an orphanage, endures hunger, abuse, and the London underworld, but despite everything, he retains his goodness. The novel criticizes social injustice and the neglect of the poor.

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Otpadnik

The novel The Apostate by Russian author Vladimir Lidin, published in 1934 in Zagreb in the translation by Iso Velikanović, presents a powerful psychological and moral drama set in the student milieu of Soviet Russia.

Otrovana srca / Pobijeljeni grobovi

One of the most prolific Croatian realists and early naturalists with a strong right-wing orientation, in this book he brings together two stories from the Zagreb bourgeois milieu: Poisoned Hearts (1890) and Whitened Graves (1896).

Panoptikum

A powerful debut novel about fifteen-year-old Anais in a closed juvenile detention center. A poignant story of trauma, resistance, surveillance, and the search for identity in a system that destroys.