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  • Robinson 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 DefoeNoveleBook

  • Sense 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 AustenNoveleBook

  • Serbian Folk-Lore

    Serbian Folk-Lore — Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Serbian and Bosnian traditional storytellers. An English collection of Serbian and Bosnian folk tales brings together magical trials, clever bargains, legends and encounters with extraordinary beings. Its introduction traces the oral storytellers and collections from which the tales were selected.

    Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Serbian and Bosnian traditional storytellersFairy taleseBook · Audiobook

  • Short Stories

    Short Stories — Aleksa Šantić. Nine short stories bring together lyrical scenes of Mostar and Herzegovina, love, friendship and family sorrow. From Vengeance to The Friend, Šantić combines folk storytelling with loss, loyalty and moral choices. This illustrated English edition preserves the cultural setting while adapting character names for English pronunciation.

    Aleksa ŠantićShort story collectioneBook · Audiobook

  • Stories

    Stories — Janko Leskovar. Leskovar’s stories follow people troubled by memories, doubts and unspoken desires. The collection opens with a schoolmaster’s restless inner life in “A Thought of Eternity”.

    Janko LeskovarShort story collectioneBook · Audiobook

  • Stradija

    Stradija — Radoje Domanović. A traveller enters Stradija and finds arbitrariness, hypocrisy and idleness behind its fine speeches and liberal laws. Domanović’s imaginary country exposes the gap between public promises and lived reality.

    Radoje DomanovićNovellaeBook · Audiobook

  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson. A London lawyer follows the disturbing connection between his friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the violent Edward Hyde. Stevenson’s novella follows a concealed experiment and a struggle between respectability and destructive desires.

    Robert Louis StevensonHorroreBook

  • Svetislav and Mileva

    Svetislav and Mileva — Jovan Sterija Popović. In Svetislav and Mileva, peace arrives as a demand made upon a family. After the defeat at Kosovo, Milica and Stefan seek a way to preserve their country; the price Bajazit sets includes Mileva’s marriage. She becomes the point at which duty to the fatherland, maternal love and an existing pledge of love collide. The play conducts its political argument through conversations between people who love one another and nevertheless cause one another pain.

    Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • Sympathy and Antipathy

    Sympathy and Antipathy — Jovan Sterija Popović. Agnica reads a story and decides to turn it into a performance. Her parents dislike the man she wants to marry, so she devises an illness that only his presence can relieve. The audience hears the plan before the household sees its effects. This difference in knowledge is the play’s engine: each new sign confirms a theory to the doctor while revealing a piece of stagecraft to us.

    Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The Abolition of Passions

    The Abolition of Passions — Radoje Domanović. A country has ten good men and a population seething with dangerous passions. Reading newspapers, building schools, helping the poor and buying flowers all appear in its catalogue of misconduct. Domanović lets the accusations accumulate in the sober language of official reports until ordinary civic life itself looks like a conspiracy.

    Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate twelve puzzles, from Irene Adler’s elusive photograph to a priceless blue jewel hidden in a Christmas goose. Observation and deduction uncover the secrets beneath everyday Victorian life.

    Arthur Conan DoyleShort story collectioneBook

  • The 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 literatureeBook

  • The Badger Before the Court

    The Badger Before the Court — Petar Kočić. Peasant David Štrbac takes a badger to court for ruining his maize. His apparently absurd complaint exposes poverty, official arrogance and the struggle for dignity in Petar Kočić’s satirical drama.

    Petar KočićSatirical dramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The 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 DostoevskyNoveleBook

  • The 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 TolstoyNovellaeBook

  • The Dead Man’s Wife

    The Dead Man’s Wife — Borisav Stanković. Anica begins this story almost without a name. She is a widow visiting a grave, a mother leading a child, someone recognised through the man to whom she belonged. Only after following her from the cemetery into the streets and back behind her gate does the narrative name her.

    Borisav StankovićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • The Dead Sea

    The Dead Sea — Radoje Domanović. The narrator begins with his anxious aunt, a woman capable of discovering mortal danger in a stone, a meal or a trip to church. Her solicitous voice becomes the starting point of a much larger inquiry: what happens when caution ceases to protect life and instead prevents it from being lived? Schoolroom lessons, political procedure and everyday conversation gradually acquire the same stifling rhythm.

    Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · Audiobook

  • The Divine Comedy

    The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri. Dante's imagined journey leads through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and later by Beatrice. This complete English translation by Henry Francis Cary brings together the poem's moral vision, historical encounters, and search for spiritual understanding.

    Dante AlighieriEpic poetryeBook

  • The Enchanted Donkey

    The Enchanted Donkey — Jovan Sterija Popović. The donkey in this comedy never speaks. Everyone else speaks a great deal, and their eloquence makes the animal seem increasingly sensible. Three students discover a sleeping peasant and a donkey they would like to turn into money. Their solution depends on a theatrical substitution: one student stays behind in the animal’s place, ready to explain the miracle when the owner wakes.

    Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The Fate of a Mind

    The Fate of a Mind — Jovan Sterija Popović. A Doctor of Philosophy has misplaced his mind. His servants look for it as though it were an object left in a room, and the Doctor eventually advertises a reward for its return. The joke grows out of the language he teaches: once a mind can sit at home, a river can have shoulders and a school can float, figures of speech become things that can walk, quarrel and get lost.

    Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · Audiobook

  • The 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 DostoevskyNoveleBook

  • The 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 FitzgeraldNoveleBook

  • The 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 DoyleCrimeeBook

  • The Iliad

    The Iliad — Homer. In the final year of the Trojan War, Achilles’ anger changes the course of the fighting and the fates of those around him. Homer’s epic brings heroic ambition into confrontation with loss, pity and the shared vulnerability of enemies.

    HomerEpic poetryeBook

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde. Jack and Algernon invent convenient identities to escape social obligations and pursue the women they love. Their schemes collide in a sparkling comedy of mistaken names, courtship and Victorian respectability.

    Oscar WildeDramaeBook

  • The Inspector-General

    The Inspector-General — Nikolai Gogol. Officials in a corrupt provincial Russian town mistake a penniless young traveller for an important government inspector. Their frantic efforts to flatter and bribe him expose a web of vanity, fear and public dishonesty in Gogol's five-act comedy.

    Nikolai GogolDramaeBook

  • The 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 ShelleyNoveleBook

  • The Leader

    The Leader — Radoje Domanović. The Leader is a satirical short story about people who leave a barren homeland in the hope of finding a better life. They choose an unknown man to guide them, taking his silence as proof of wisdom. Domanović follows the process by which ordinary hope becomes unconditional obedience, and a community learns to justify each new disaster.

    Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · Audiobook
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