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Outlaw 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 DostoevskyNoveleBookPride 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.
Mark TwainNoveleBookRobinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe. Shipwrecked on a remote island, Robinson Crusoe learns to build shelter, grow food and survive years of isolation. His carefully ordered life is transformed by signs of other people and his encounter with Friday.
Daniel DefoeNoveleBookSense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen. After losing the security of their family estate, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood navigate love, money and social expectation. The sisters' different temperaments reveal the tensions between prudent judgement and passionate feeling.
Jane AustenNoveleBookThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer turns childhood in a Missouri river town into a succession of pranks, friendships, and risky adventures. Beneath the humor, his encounters with a murder, a hidden treasure, and the mysterious caves test his courage and loyalty.
Mark TwainChildren’s literatureeBookThe Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky. The lives of the Karamazov brothers become entangled in bitter family conflicts and the murder of their father. Through Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, Dostoyevsky examines freedom, faith, guilt, and responsibility in a demanding psychological novel.
Fyodor DostoevskyNoveleBookThe Extraordinary Adventures of the Apprentice Hlapić
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Apprentice Hlapić — Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. Hlapić takes little with him: some food, a few shoemaker's tools, and the boots that caused a quarrel in the workshop. His most important possessions cannot be packed in a satchel. They are his ability to mend things and his habit of taking other people's troubles seriously. His journey begins as an escape from injustice, but soon becomes a succession of encounters in which he must decide what he owes to strangers.
Ivana Brlić-MažuranićChildren’s literatureeBookThe Gambler
The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoevsky. Alexei Ivanovich, a young tutor in a Russian family's retinue, is drawn into the emotional and financial turmoil of a European spa town. His love for Polina and fascination with roulette reveal the dangerous pull of obsession, pride and sudden fortune.
Fyodor DostoevskyNoveleBookThe Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick Carraway enters the glittering world of his wealthy neighbour Jay Gatsby, whose lavish parties conceal a consuming longing for Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald's novel follows desire, reinvention and the fragile promises of the American dream in the 1920s.
F. Scott FitzgeraldNoveleBookThe Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle. The death of Sir Charles Baskerville revives a legend of a monstrous hound haunting his family on Dartmoor. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a landscape of hidden watchers, treacherous marshes, and carefully manufactured fear.
Arthur Conan DoyleCrimeeBookThe Last Man
The Last Man — Mary Shelley. A devastating plague transforms Lionel Verney’s world and gradually empties the societies around him. Shelley’s speculative novel follows friendship, political hope and grief toward the solitude of the last survivor.
Mary ShelleyNoveleBookThe Last Stipančićs
The Last Stipančićs — Vjenceslav Novak. The room in which The Last Stipančićs opens is almost sealed against the world. The air is too warm, the furniture too large, and the light too weak. Beyond the windows the bora roars through Senj; inside, a mother watches her daughter and tries to keep suffering at bay. Before the novel tells us how this family once lived, it makes us feel what its remaining life costs.
Vjenceslav NovakNoveleBookThe 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 DoyleNoveleBookThe 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 · AudiobookThe 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 StevensonNoveleBookThe 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 · AudiobookThe 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 WildeNoveleBookThe 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 TwainNoveleBookThe 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 DoyleCrimeeBookThe 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 DoyleCrimeeBookThe 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 · AudiobookThe 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. WellsNoveleBookTreasure 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 StevensonNoveleBookTwo 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