Prague Tales (Central European Classics)
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Book Description
Prague Tales ia a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, and bitter-sweet 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 realist--considered by many to be the
Charles Dickens of nineteenth-century Czechoslovakia. Through Neruda's writings, the reader can fully appreciate Prague's ever increasing awareness of itself as a Czech, rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic collection by a writer whose influence hass been acknowledged by
generations of writers, including Capek, Kafka, Kundera, Skvorecky, and Ivan Klima, one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary Czech writers, who has contributed an Introduction to this new translation.
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech
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Prague Tales (Central European Classics),Jan Neruda,Michael Henry Heim,Central European University Press,9639116238,Classics,Humor,Literary,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Short Stories (single author),19th century fiction,Short stories
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