Prague Tales

Prague Tales
Author: Jan Neruda
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1993-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9633864658

This is a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bittersweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth-century realist, the Charles Dickens of a Prague becoming ever more aware of itself as a Czech rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic by a writer whose influence has been acknowledged by generations of Czech writers, including Ivan Klíma, who contributes an introduction to this new translation.

Two Stories of Prague

Two Stories of Prague
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1994
Genre: Prague (Czech Republic)
ISBN: 9780874517897

The first English translation of two stories from Rilke's earliest prose work.

Prague Stories

Prague Stories
Author: Richard Bassett
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525659579

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of stories set in Prague, by an international array of brilliant writers. The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual center of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city’s past and present, from the Jewish fable of the golem, a creature conjured from clay, to tales of German and Soviet invasions. The international array of writers ranges from Franz Kafka to Ivan Klíma to Bruce Chatwin, and includes the award-winning British playwright Tom Stoppard and former American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, both of whom have Czech roots. Covering the city’s venerable Jewish heritage, the glamour of the belle-époque period, World War II, Communist rule, the Prague Spring, the Velvet Revolution, and beyond, Prague Stories weaves a remarkable selection of fiction and nonfiction into a literary portrait of a fascinating city.

The Prague Cemetery

The Prague Cemetery
Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547577613

The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man? “Choreographed by a truth that is itself so strange a novelist need hardly expand on it to produce a wondrous tale... Eco is to be applauded for bringing this stranger-than-fiction truth vividly to life.” —The New York Times

My Merry Mornings

My Merry Mornings
Author: Ivan Klíma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1985
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Witty stories from Prague before the Velvet Revolution, each day in the week of a great dissident writer.

Haunted Prague

Haunted Prague
Author: Esther Feske
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781572161207

Prague is the most haunted of places. It is a city where magic and mystery can be found at every turn. The thirty-nine supernatural legends in this book, all but one associated with notable tourist attractions, are more than fascinating stories set in Prague. They also capture the city's images and imagination better than any guidebook or history book. This is not a collection of folktales, but only of supernatural legends for which Prague is unsurpassed. The writing is original, and the setting of each tale is described in detail to allow even an armchair traveler a magical tour of this captivating city. The stories also serve as the framework for providing an overview of Czech history and culture as we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Old Prague Legends

Old Prague Legends
Author: Magdalena Wagnerová
Publisher: Nakladatelství PLOT
Total Pages: 134
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

29 tales of legends associated with several well-known sites of old Prague