Prague Tales
Jan Neruda author Michael Henry Heim translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Central European University Press
Published:15th Apr '96
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
“How often is a reviewer privileged to make so marvellous a discovery?” * The Spectator *
ISBN: 9789639116238
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 480g
368 pages