Early Stories (18731876): English Edition

In these early stories, Rikard Jorgovanic emerges as a distinctive voice of 19th-century Croatian prose-at once intimate, lyrical, and quietly unsettling.Written between 1873 and 1876 and first published in leading Croatian periodicals of the time, these works trace the formative phase of a writer drawn to the fragile boundaries between love and loss, illusion and reality. Set against rural landscapes and small-town interiors, the stories move from youthful idealism to moments of emotional fracture, where ordinary lives are marked by longing, misrecognition, and sudden reversals of fate.This volume brings together four of Jorgovanic's early prose works: The Millers' Children, By the Lake, Women's Tears, and Love on the Deathbed. Though diverse in tone, they form a coherent whole-progressing from social narrative through tragedy to a more reflective and complex emotional register.Presented in a new English translation, this edition is based directly on the original 19th-century publications, preserving the linguistic character and stylistic nuance of the texts. Accompanied by concise annotations, it offers both general readers and scholars a rare entry into a lesser-known but compelling strand of European literary history.Part of the 19th Century Croatian Fiction series, this volume restores an overlooked author to his historical context and literary voice.

Pages: 230, Paperback, Independently published