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

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

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The ...

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

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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. H ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jo ...