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  • The Liar and His Accomplice

    The Liar and His Accomplice — Jovan Sterija Popović. Two hungry adventurers stop before a respectable house and invent a social position for themselves. Aleksa becomes Baron Golić, Mita his servant. Yet skill in lying is not all that opens the door: within the house is already a desire to hear exactly what they offer.

    Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The Lost World

    The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle. Professor Challenger leads an expedition to an isolated South American plateau where prehistoric creatures survive. The travellers confront scientific doubt, dangerous terrain, and the unexpected inhabitants of a world cut off from modern life.

    Arthur Conan DoyleNoveleBook

  • The Marriage of Peter Carrington

    The Marriage of Peter Carrington — Svetozar Ćorović. Peter Carrington’s friends send him on a search for a wife, leading him into one comic entanglement after another. Ćorović brings vanity, friendship and small-town life into the marriage quest.

    Svetozar ĆorovićNoveleBook · Audiobook

  • The Master of Ballantrae

    The Master of Ballantrae — Robert Louis Stevenson. The rivalry between the Durie brothers stretches from their Scottish estate to adventures overseas. Told largely by the loyal steward Mackellar, the story follows a family divided by resentment, ambition, and the charismatic Master’s return.

    Robert Louis StevensonNoveleBook

  • The 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 · Audiobook

  • The 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 · Audiobook

  • The Odyssey

    The Odyssey — Homer. Odysseus faces storms, monsters, and temptation during his long journey home after the Trojan War. In Ithaca, Penelope and Telemachus endure the suitors while the returning king prepares to reclaim his household.

    HomerEpic poetryeBook

  • The Patriots

    The Patriots — Jovan Sterija Popović. A cockade can be taken off in a moment. In The Patriots, that small action becomes a political system. The same men discover first that freedom requires Hungarian colours, then that Serbian colours are indispensable, then that both may be worn at once. Their explanations grow more elaborate as their principles grow cheaper.

    Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The People Will Gild It All

    The People Will Gild It All — Laza Lazarević. Two men wait for an overdue steamboat on the Sava. Blagoje the coppersmith expects his son home from the war; Captain Tanasije Jeličić is waiting for his wife. For each, the boat’s arrival promises an answer to questions he can scarcely bear any longer. Conversation, silence, memories and mistaken sounds fill the hours.

    Laza LazarevićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde. A beautiful young man discovers that his painted portrait bears the marks of age and wrongdoing while his own face remains unchanged. Oscar Wilde's novel explores vanity, moral responsibility, and the seductive pursuit of pleasure.

    Oscar WildeNoveleBook

  • The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper — Mark Twain. Two boys who look alike exchange clothes and find themselves living on opposite sides of Tudor society. Their adventures reveal the cruelty of poverty, the uncertainties of power and the distance between a royal title and human experience.

    Mark TwainNoveleBook

  • The Quarrelsome Husband

    The Quarrelsome Husband — Jovan Sterija Popović. Maksim can find fault with a clean room because too much cleaning wears out the floor. An untidy room would condemn his wife just as surely. The trouble in The Quarrelsome Husband is therefore more stubborn than a disagreement about housework: any answer can be made wrong by a man determined to complain.

    Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The Sign of the Four

    The Sign of the Four — Arthur Conan Doyle. Mary Morstan brings Sherlock Holmes a mystery involving her missing father, anonymous gifts of pearls and a promised meeting. Holmes and Watson follow a stolen Indian treasure through Victorian London to a dramatic pursuit on the Thames.

    Arthur Conan DoyleCrimeeBook

  • The Singer’s Easter

    A singer can turn private sorrow into public pleasure, but what happens when the sorrow becomes too great to sing? In Pevačev Uskrs (The Singer’s Easter), Radoje Domanović follows Pera through the preparations for a holiday that other households can afford to celebrate. Lambs, new clothes, cakes and painted eggs are ordinary comforts to the people around him.

    Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • The Slava

    The Slava — Radoje Domanović. A rider returning to his village meets a child watching three sheep in the rain. Their conversation turns from work and taxes to the next day's family celebration. The boy expects his mother's preparations to be understood at once; the adult narrator hears in them the effort required to keep a poor household within the circle of ordinary social life.

    Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • The Time Machine

    The Time Machine — H. G. Wells. An inventor journeys far into the future and encounters the apparently gentle Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. His account turns a remarkable scientific adventure into a disturbing reflection on class, evolution, and the fate of humanity.

    H. G. WellsNovellaeBook

  • The Valley of Fear

    The Valley of Fear — Arthur Conan Doyle. A killing at a moated English manor leads Sherlock Holmes to clues that resist the official explanation. The mystery reaches back to an American mining valley, a secret society, and a man living under the shadow of an old vendetta.

    Arthur Conan DoyleCrimeeBook

  • The Village Schoolmistress

    The Village Schoolmistress — Svetolik Ranković. Village teachers confront private hopes, loneliness and pressure from local authorities. Ranković combines their relationships with a critical portrait of provincial society.

    Svetolik RankovićNoveleBook · Audiobook

  • The Vow

    The Vow — Simo Matavulj. In The Vow, a word spoken within a family becomes an obligation reaching into love, religion and public life. Dubrovnik is more than a backdrop: aristocratic pride, memories of former independence, newspaper accusations and municipal elections enter the drawing room itself. Ivo tries to reconcile political conviction, his love for Milica and tenderness towards his ailing mother. What one person calls duty becomes another’s intolerable sacrifice.

    Simo MatavuljDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells. A Martian invasion brings devastating machines to the towns and countryside of southern England. An unnamed narrator struggles to survive while humanity confronts a power far beyond its own.

    H. G. WellsNoveleBook

  • Theatre in a Small Town

    Theatre in a Small Town — Radoje Domanović. A small town notices everything: a missing rooster, a badly played card, a neighbour's talent for preparing radishes. Its narrator treats this vigilant attention as proof that provincial life nurtures talent. What follows tests that claim by bringing a theatre into the town's ordinary routines.

    Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • Through the Blizzard

    Through the Blizzard — Petar Kočić. Relja and his nephew Vujo return from market with their cow unsold. Behind this small failure lies the loss of a household once full of people, livestock and standing in the world. As the road climbs towards the mountain, the story opens into a long recollection of prosperity and its collapse. Returning to the winter night means returning to the little life Relja still has left.

    Petar KočićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • Through the Looking-Glass

    Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll. Alice steps through a mirror into a world organized like an extraordinary chess game. Talking flowers, contradictory conversations, and unforgettable figures carry her toward becoming a queen in this playful companion to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

    Lewis CarrollChildren’s literatureeBook

  • Travels in Bosnia and the Neighbouring Lands

    Travels in Bosnia and the Neighbouring Lands — Evliya Çelebi. Evliya Çelebi describes towns, roads, people and customs in Bosnia and the neighbouring lands. This English reading edition follows the supplied 56-chapter selection through Kemura’s Bosnian text and retains its editorial notes and glossary.

    Evliya ÇelebiTravel writingeBook

  • Treasure Island

    Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson. A sea chest and a mysterious map send young Jim Hawkins aboard the Hispaniola in search of buried treasure. Among the crew is the charming, dangerous Long John Silver, whose shifting loyalties make the voyage a struggle for survival.

    Robert Louis StevensonNoveleBook

  • Two Idols

    Two Idols — Bogoboj Atanacković. A love story unfolds in Vojvodina during the upheavals of 1848. Mladen’s loyalties to a loved one and his homeland are tested by war, poverty and political divisions.

    Bogoboj AtanackovićNoveleBook · Audiobook

  • Uskok: The Fugitive

    Uskok: The Fugitive — Simo Matavulj. A man escaping from Kotor climbs towards Montenegro at Christmas, carrying an imperial uniform beneath a borrowed coat and a past he cannot leave behind. The mountains offer him more than shelter. They offer a name, a place at the hearth and membership in a brotherhood. In Uskok, becoming one of a community is at once an act of generosity and an undertaking with consequences.

    Simo MatavuljNoveleBook · Audiobook

  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë. The bond between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff unsettles two households on the Yorkshire moors. Told through layered recollections, their story traces obsession, revenge and the consequences inherited by the next generation.

    Emily BrontëNoveleBook
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