In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twen ...

Hasek s most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungaria ...

„Když se Řehoř Samsa jednou ráno probudil z nepokojných snů, shledal, že se v posteli proměnil v jakýsi nestvůrný hmyz. ...

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literar ...

This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together the ...

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous verm ...

In "America" Karl Rossmann is 'packed off to American by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here ...

In 1984, Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986) was the first Czech to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Although Seifert lived ...

Slavný humoristický román Zdeňka Jirotky vyšel poprvé v roce 1942 a od té doby se dočkal 15 vydání v českém jazyce. Po v ...

One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturb ...

Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the f ...

A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality

Readers are taken through a midsummer''s night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interw ...

"Leah" is set in Theresienstadt, the ghetto created by the Nazis in northern Bohemia as a staging post for the transport ...

Presents the story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to Am ...

Toto pro školu a studium obzvlášť vhodné vydání předkládá nejenom text s kresbami, ale přináší i informativní obrazový p ...

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twent ...

A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when t ...

Dear children and others, we are informing you that everything is in the best disorder, and so we are again meeting you ...

Over a generous time span, this book follows the varied lives of several high-school classmates, from their teenage grow ...

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her m ...