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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain. Huck Finn escapes an abusive home and travels down the Mississippi with Jim, a man fleeing enslavement. Their raft journey becomes an adventure through deception, danger and the moral contradictions of nineteenth-century American society.
Mark TwainNoveleBookAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll. Alice follows a hurried White Rabbit into a world where logic and ordinary rules dissolve. Her encounters with extraordinary creatures combine playful nonsense, curious conversations, and the uncertainty of growing up.
Lewis CarrollChildren’s literatureeBookTales from Long Ago
Tales from Long Ago — Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. A young man seeks the truth while forgetting the person who needs him. A fisherman dreams of splendour and fails to recognise the happiness already in his house. A giant can move earth and water but needs a child's suggestion to know how. In Tales from Long Ago, extraordinary powers repeatedly expose an ordinary difficulty: understanding what we owe one another.
Ivana Brlić-MažuranićFairy taleseBookThe 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 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 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 TwainNoveleBookThrough 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 literatureeBookTreasure 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