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From Immigrant to Inventor
From Immigrant to Inventor — Michael Pupin. Michael Pupin recounts his journey from Idvor to America and a life in science. Education, work, scientific encounters and attachment to his origins shape these personal recollections.
Michael PupinAutobiographyeBook · AudiobookGreat 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 DickensNoveleBookHedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen. Newly married Hedda Tesman feels trapped by domestic expectations and tries to control the people around her. Her destructive involvement with Eilert Lovborg and Thea Elvsted turns a confined drawing-room drama into a study of power, fear, and frustrated freedom.
Henrik IbsenDramaeBookI Do Not Understand
I Do Not Understand — Radoje Domanović. The narrator wants to become a soldier. He imagines that patriotic enthusiasm will open the barracks doors and earn him a warm welcome. Instead, his living presence becomes a problem for a military administration whose records say otherwise.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookIn a Village Inn
In a Village Inn — Radoje Domanović. A traveller caught in a winter storm finds shelter in a village inn. At first the place seems to promise warmth, food and company. The conversations he overhears gradually reveal how the village is governed, how its leisure is paid for, and whose labour keeps everyone else comfortable.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookIn 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 · AudiobookInto the Mire
Into the Mire — Vjenceslav Novak. A prosperous student in Zagreb encounters talented young men struggling to afford food, rooms and education. Novak tests his conscience against the unfair distribution of support.
Vjenceslav NovakShort storyeBook · AudiobookJablan
Jablan — Petar Kočić. Lujo waits for tomorrow as if his whole world depends on it. His bull, Jablan, is to face the imperial bull Rudonja. Beginning with a child's tenderness towards an animal, the story follows his wavering fear and pride into the clamour of a public contest. The village at rest beneath the moon and the sudden crash of horns belong to the same mountain life.
Petar KočićShort storyeBook · AudiobookJane Eyre
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë. Orphaned Jane Eyre becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where her bond with the enigmatic Edward Rochester is tested by secrets and unequal power. Told in Jane's own voice, the novel follows her search for love, independence and self-respect.
Charlotte BrontëNoveleBookKidnapped
Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson. After a treacherous relative sends David Balfour into captivity, he survives shipwreck and finds an ally in the Jacobite Alan Breck. Their flight across the Scottish Highlands tests an unlikely friendship against danger, political suspicion, and the question of David’s inheritance.
Robert Louis StevensonNoveleBookLady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan — Oscar Wilde. Lady Windermere believes that her husband’s attentions to the socially suspect Mrs. Erlynne prove a betrayal. Over a single day, a birthday fan becomes the hinge of a comedy about appearances, scandal, sacrifice, and judgments made too quickly.
Oscar WildeDramaeBookLes Misérables
Les Misérables — Victor Hugo. Jean Valjean struggles to rebuild his life after imprisonment while the relentless Inspector Javert pursues him. Hugo's sweeping novel links his fate with Fantine, Cosette, Marius and the streets of nineteenth-century France, exploring poverty, justice and the power of mercy.
Victor HugoNoveleBookLost 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 AustenNoveleBookMiloš Obilić
Miloš Obilić — Jovan Sterija Popović. In Miloš Obilić, honour is both a source of strength and a point of vulnerability. A hero who wants to free Serbia from foreign rule must answer an insult to his own name; a decision declared in public becomes an obligation that even love cannot easily restrain. Against his openness stand Branković’s envy, Negoda’s resourcefulness and Lazar’s willingness to believe a rumour once it takes the form of a letter.
Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · AudiobookMoby-Dick; or, The Whale
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville. Ishmael joins the whaling ship Pequod, whose captain Ahab is determined to hunt the white whale that cost him his leg. A vast sea adventure unfolds into a meditation on obsession, nature, and the limits of human understanding.
Herman MelvilleNoveleBookMy First Morning Service with Father
My First Morning Service with Father — Laza Lazarević. A son recalls the night his father's gambling brought the family to ruin. His mother's courage and tenderness restore hope as the church bells announce morning prayers. This complete English translation adapts character names while retaining the Serbian setting and customs.
Laza LazarevićShort storyeBookMy Inventions
My Inventions — Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla describes his childhood, his inventions and the working habits of his imagination. Six autobiographical sections connect personal memories with electrical engineering and ideas about the future.
Nikola TeslaAutobiographyeBook · AudiobookNo Escape
No Escape — Radoje Domanović. Every editor in Nigde spasa (No Escape) has only a small request. An article on vines, a contribution on raising foals, a brief patriotic story: surely an educated writer can oblige. Their courtesy makes refusal harder, and the narrator’s attempt to find a subject becomes more oppressive than the work itself. What begins with a ruined afternoon grows into a pursuit through streets, shops and finally the countryside.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookNotes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky. An isolated former civil servant challenges confident theories of rational behavior while exposing his own contradictions and resentment. Recollections of humiliation and his encounter with Liza reveal the painful gap between his desire for connection and his impulse to reject it.
Fyodor DostoevskyNovellaeBookOliver 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 · AudiobookPersuasion
Persuasion — Jane Austen. Years after being persuaded to reject Captain Wentworth, Anne Elliot encounters him again amid changing family fortunes. Their renewed acquaintance tests pride, constancy and the possibility of a second chance.
Jane AustenNoveleBookPoor Folk
Poor Folk — Fyodor Dostoevsky. The impoverished clerk Makar Devushkin and the young Varvara Dobroselova exchange letters across a Petersburg courtyard. Their tender correspondence records small joys, humiliations, and the pressures that poverty places on affection and dignity.
Fyodor DostoevskyNoveleBookPoor Girl
Poor Girl — Simo Matavulj. A sailor returns to a Dalmatian island with a ring, unaware that the woman he loves has died. Matavulj quietly traces hidden affection, grief and a family’s continuing daily life.
Simo MatavuljShort storyeBook · AudiobookPride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen. Elizabeth Bennet encounters the reserved Mr Darcy in a society ruled by wealth, manners, and expectations of marriage. Their growing attachment challenges first impressions, family pressures, and the barriers of social class.
Jane AustenNoveleBookPudd'nhead Wilson
Pudd'nhead Wilson — Mark Twain. A secret exchange of two infants in a Missouri slaveholding town reshapes their lives and the identities society assigns them. When a murder brings suspicion upon visiting twins, David Wilson's fingerprint records expose a deeper history of deception and injustice.
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