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  • Images from dreams

    Ivan Cankar is considered one of four representatives of Slovenian modernism (in addition to Murn, Kette, and Župančič). In 1899, which is now considered the beginning of Slovenian modernism, Župančič's debut collection of poetry "Čaša opojnosti" (The Goblet of Inebriation) and Cankar's "Erotika" (Eroticism) were published. Cankar soon began to write fiction and plays. His sketches, stories, ... Read more

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  • The Serfs

    The Serfs - English Translation (A Slovenian classic)

    Series series Translations of Slovene literature by Lesley Zore
    The Serfs is a piece of Slovenian classical drama. It is one of the key literary works in the Slovene language, published by Ivan Cankar. Translated by Lesley Zore, it comes for the first time in the English Language.It is the year of 1907. The clerical party has achieved a victory in the Austro-Hungarian parliamentary elections. Can a progressive teacher recover from this conservative bullshit? ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 2

    M McDonell Bodkin Q C to Constance Cotterell

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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    Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 2

    William E Burton to Richard Garnett

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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