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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.
Author | : Alena Ježková |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : 9788072521395 |
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.
Author | : Egon Erwin Kisch |
Publisher | : Plunkett Lake Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-08-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague (Marktplatz der Sensationen) is the memoir of the writer who elevated journalism to the status of literature in 20th century Europe. Taking his cue from the blind Czech balladeer who sang in the courtyard of his family’s Prague apartment in the 1890s, Egon Erwin Kisch created a body of work based in fact. Kisch wrote Sensation Fair in Mexico during his exile from Nazi-occupied Europe as Stefan Zweig was writing The World of Yesterday in Brazil. Although the writers were Central European Jewish contemporaries, they could not have been more different. Sensation Fair is the memoir of a former police reporter and dedicated Communist. His rollicking, ironic, muckraking portrait of turn-of-the century Prague is a passionate argument for the value of non-fiction narrative. “delightfully and cleverly done, with dozens of good yarns and stories in it ... He writes with a touch and a wit of his own.” — The New York Times “Sensation Fair is brisk story and haunting picture of a youth in old Prague, journalism in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ... conspicuously varied both in substance and mood. Egon Erwin Kisch can see life and write of it with incisive concentration and romantic allusiveness, tenderness and ribaldry, humor and candor and scorn ... a lively and mellow picture, personal and not too nostalgic, of a bygone world.” — The New York Times “One feels in the presence of this book, as in the presence of the author himself, a richness and zest that cannot be defeated in the most difficult conditions of exile ... at once considered and colloquial ... one sees reflected the buoyancy and seriousness which are equally basic to [Kisch’s] character.” — The New Masses
Author | : František Langer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : |
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.
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
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.
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.
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