Historical novel

Zaljev Chesapeake

An epic novel that traces the history of the eponymous bay on the east coast of the United States from the 16th century to the 1970s. Through generations of family and historical events, Michener explores man's relationship with nature, social change, and

Zastave 1-5

Flags follows the turbulent period of Croatian history from 1912 to 1922 through the family showdown between the father and son of the Emerics, but the family story is only a basis for problematizing the Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Albanian nationa

Zemlja sreskih galebova

Ženski orkestar

Fanie Fénelon's novel The Women's Orchestra is a memoir that describes her experience of surviving in a women's orchestra at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.

Život Byrona

The biography The Life of Byron (1930) by André Maurois, is a detailed account of the life and works of the English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824).

Zlatarovo zlato

The first Croatian historical novel - the most Zagreb of all stories. It is a story about the forbidden love of a goldsmith's daughter and a nobleman's son on the historical stage of Zagreb's streets and squares in the sixteenth century.

Zvonar bogorodičine crkve

The Bell Tower (1831) is not just a story of love and tragedy – it is a vivid picture of Paris on the threshold of the Renaissance, where the Gothic Notre-Dame Cathedral becomes almost the main character, a living being of stone that breathes history, suf