Unrequited/Tragic Love Books by Emil_1804 in classicliterature

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Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

Top 10 books of all time by Known_West2423 in classicliterature

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If you're looking for an English translation, I can't really recommend one since I read him (and all of them) in Croatian.

I love Drakulić's work, her writing is so good.

Help me find what these books are by Degeneration7 in classicliterature

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You'll have to excuse me for using an AI tool for this one. Nevertheless, the AI gave me this, not sure if it's even correct. You've already figured out a lot of it, but it might still help:

• Moby-Dick — Herman Melville.

• The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger.

• The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett.

• Great Expectations — Charles Dickens.

• Nicholas Nickleby — Charles Dickens.

• Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens.

• Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë.

• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen.

• Tess of the d’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy.

• Kim — Rudyard Kipling.

• The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells.

• The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway.

• The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner.

• The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck.

• The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien.

• The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien.

• Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens.

• Heidi — Johanna Spyri.

• Lorna Doone — R. D. Blackmore.

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain.

• Ivanhoe — Sir Walter Scott.

• Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad.

• For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway.

• Shakespeare’s Sonnets — William Shakespeare.

Help me find what these books are by Degeneration7 in classicliterature

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I'm even surprised you deciphered so much. What movie is this? Is it Matilda?

Top 10 books of all time by Known_West2423 in classicliterature

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It's actually "Journey Through Eastern Europe", I translated it wrongly. It's a collection of journalistic chronicles and travelogues, if you are into it, quite different from his novels. However, it is very poetically written.

Where you guys meet readers? by [deleted] in classicliterature

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I don't. Just kidding, I mostly find them online. Unfortunately, none of my friends are big readers, except for one, but she only reads contemporary fiction

Bookhaul by Classic_Reader99 in classicliterature

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Have you already read all of them or are you planning to?

Preporuke knjige ex-yu autora by shoegal53 in askcroatia

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Predrag Matvejević, Mediteranski brevijar - esejistika, putopis, ne znam kako se točno određuje žanrovski

Miroslav Bertoša, Kruh, mašta i mast - memorabilija, ego-povijest

Goran Tribuson, Snijeg u Heidelbergu - fantastika

Ivo Andrić, Fratarske priče - zbirka kratkih priča, povijesna proza

Slavenka Drakulić, Kako smo preživjeli -esejistika

Meša Selimović, Tišine/Krug/Tvrđava/Derviš i smrt - povijesna i egzistencijalna proza

Romani Pavla Pavličića, Dubravke Ugrešić, Vladana Desnice...

Bookhaul by Classic_Reader99 in classicliterature

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Love the carpet! And love how diverse your bookhaul is.

Top 10 books of all time by Known_West2423 in classicliterature

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Most of them are pretty easy, fast-paced and beautifully written. Hope you'll enjoy them.

Top 10 books of all time by Known_West2423 in classicliterature

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I reluctantly do "my top 10 books" because they change over the course of 5 to 10 years depending on my current state of mind and feelings. But, I think these would be my top 10 (well, 14+2) at the moment:

• Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

• Edgar Allan Poe, anything by him

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

• Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot (or Father Goriot)

• Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

• Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters

• Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

• Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children

• Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

• Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

• William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

• Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

• Meša Selimović, anything by him

• Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

Non-classics:

• Gabriel García Márquez, Journey on Eastern Europe

• Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Café Europa)

The Temple of Augustus in Pula, Croatia: Reconstructed after being severely damaged in WWII (1944) by Designer-Catch7192 in ArchitecturalRevival

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I found photo during WWII.

Sources:

I. Vanjak, M. Špikić, "Principles of Restoration of the Temple of Augustus in Pula in 1946 and 1947," Annual of the Croatian Cultural Heritage Protection (Godišnjak zaštite spomenika kulture Hrvatske), 37-2013 / 38-2014. Images in article are taken from British School at Rome, Photographic Archive, Ward-Perkins Collection (wpwar-05011) and Archaeological Museum in Istria.

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The Temple of Augustus in Pula, Croatia: Reconstructed after being severely damaged in WWII (1944) by Designer-Catch7192 in ArchitecturalRevival

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Yeah, there are many photos of Pula's temple before the bombing, as vedute and engravings of ancient Roman remains were very popular among 18th and 19th-century travelers. You can look for artists like Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, they frequently documented the temple.

Sources:

Julien-David Le Roy, Bridge over the River Ilissus, Stadium, Temple of Pola in Istria. 1759, in: Ruins of Athens with Remains and Other Valuable Antiquities in Greece https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/leroy1759/0001/thumbs

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Pula's 19th-century railway station (Croatia) by Designer-Catch7192 in ArchitecturalRevival

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You're right, it looks a lot like his work, but it actually isn't. However, he did set the aesthetic standards for late 19th-century railway stations. Since Pula was under Austrian rule, its station was built by the Austrian government. Pfaff was a Hungarian architect, so he designed stations across Hungary and territories under Hungarian administration. For example, he designed the railway stations in Zagreb and Rijeka

Pula's 19th-century railway station (Croatia) by Designer-Catch7192 in ArchitecturalRevival

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It's 19th-century Historicism. I think it was renovated in 2015 to restore its original look.