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Bleak House
Bleak House — Charles Dickens. The interminable lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce draws a wide circle of lives into the Court of Chancery. Through Esther Summerson’s story and the city around her, Dickens exposes the human cost of legal delay, secrecy and social neglect.
Charles DickensNoveleBookDead Capital
In Dead Capital, a household argument can turn without warning into a discussion of wages, education, or the uses of land. Josip Kozarac brings these subjects together because, for his characters, they are already inseparable. A father's money pays for his son's studies; a young woman's marriage changes the balance of two households; a field left uncultivated becomes a question about the society around it.
Josip KozaracNoveleBook · AudiobookFather Goriot
Father Goriot — Honoré de Balzac. At Madame Vauquer’s Paris boarding house, the ambitious student Eugène de Rastignac encounters the devoted and impoverished Father Goriot. Their intertwined stories reveal the cost of social advancement and a father’s consuming love for his daughters.
Honoré de BalzacNoveleBookGreat Expectations
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens. The orphan Pip longs to become a gentleman after entering the strange household of Miss Havisham and meeting Estella. An unexpected fortune raises his hopes while testing his loyalties, shame and understanding of what makes a worthwhile life.
Charles DickensNoveleBookHard Times
Hard Times — Charles Dickens. In industrial Coketown, Thomas Gradgrind raises his children on facts and suppresses their imaginative lives. Their choices and the struggles of the factory workers reveal the human cost of a society governed by profit and rigid utility.
Charles DickensNoveleBookIn the Cells
In the Cells — Svetozar Ćorović. Behind monastery walls, resentment and personal desires challenge the abbot’s authority. Ćorović portrays people whose hopes for freedom and affection collide with strict rules.
Svetozar ĆorovićNoveleBook · AudiobookLost Illusions
Lost Illusions — Honoré de Balzac. The young poet Lucien Chardon pursues literary success in Paris while his friend David Séchard struggles in the provincial printing trade. Balzac follows the pressures of money, reputation and journalism as ambition consumes their hopes.
Honoré de BalzacNoveleBookMansfield Park
Mansfield Park — Jane Austen. Raised among her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, Fanny Price learns to navigate affection, status, and competing expectations. The arrival of the Crawfords exposes the household’s tensions and tests her quiet moral independence.
Jane AustenNoveleBookOliver Twist
Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens. An orphan escapes the cruelties of the workhouse only to enter a London world of pickpockets, exploitation, and hidden family connections. Dickens follows Oliver's struggle for safety while exposing the indifference of institutions meant to protect the poor.
Charles DickensNoveleBookOutlaw Stanko
Outlaw Stanko — Janko M. Veselinović. Stanko’s path from village life leads into the world of outlaws and rebellion in Mačva. Love, betrayal, friendship and resistance to Ottoman rule shape Veselinović’s historical novel.
Janko M. VeselinovićNoveleBook · AudiobookThe Cossacks: A Tale of 1852
The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 — Leo Tolstoy. The young Russian officer Olenin seeks a new life among Cossacks in the Caucasus. Hunting, village life, and his feelings for Maryanka challenge his ideals of happiness and his place within the community.
Leo TolstoyNovellaeBookThe Mountain King
The Mountain King — Svetolik Ranković. A young man’s need for recognition collides with village prejudice and draws him towards an outlaw’s life. Ranković explores the line between injustice endured and violence inflicted.
Svetolik RankovićNoveleBook · AudiobookThe New Women
The New Women — Jelena Dimitrijević. Educated young women in Salonica’s Muslim households imagine lives beyond the limits imposed on them. Books, friendship and love raise hopes that family expectations and experience abroad put to the test.
Jelena DimitrijevićNoveleBook · AudiobookZona Zamfirova
Zona Zamfirova — Stevan Sremac. A song escapes from a silversmith's apprentice, a slap interrupts it, and the story has already begun to circulate. In Zona Zamfirova, very little belongs only to the people immediately concerned. A glance becomes a report, a family argument becomes public entertainment, and a young woman's reputation can be remade by neighbours who have seen nothing at all.
Stevan SremacNoveleBook · Audiobook