Čeští autoři v anglickém jazyce (Czech authors in English)

It's 1954 and nine-year-old Mira's life is about to change forever. After a typhoid outbreak rages through her town, robbing her of her parents and siblings, the orphaned child is forced to live with her mysterious, depressive Aunt Hana, a figure both frightening and fragile.Gradually, Mira uncovers the secrets of...

A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world...War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but also to speak. As th...

The award-winning novel by Czech author Kateřina Tučková--her first to be translated into English--about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world. 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father...

A History Of The Czech Lands podává soustavný výklad naší historie od pravěku až po vstup České republiky do Evropské unie v roce 2004. Kniha sleduje vývoj českého státu a národa, stejně jako menšin žijících na českém území, zejména Židů, Němců, Slováků a Poláků. Osu výkladu tvoří proměny státu (včetně území, která k...

A window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer 'You are the knife I turn inside myself' Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenská - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka...

The Greatest Czech Fairy Tales are a graphic adaptation of five classical fairy tales by Karel Jaromír Erben. His oeuvre is regarded as the Czech equivalent of the brothers Grimm, and belongs among the greatest treasures of the Czech fairy tale tradition. Three strange friends travel the world for adventure in th...

An interview with the renowned physiotherapist Professor Pavel Kolář on movement in medicine, sports and everyday life "We move too little or in the wrong ways; movement is vanishing from our lives and from medicine,” says Professor Pavel Kolář, a physiotherapist at the forefront of rehabilitative and sports...

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover-these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Kundera's first since "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting." In a world in which lives are shaped b...

Známý český historik a popularizátor historie vybral a poutavě napsal patnáct nejzajímavějších příběhů z české historie od nejstarších dob po současnost. Kniha určená zahraničním turistům a studentům.

Once Upon A Time... Eleven of the most beautiful Czech fairy tales for readers young and old Alongside purely Czech stories like The Seven Ravens or The Little Wood Goblin, this collection also features well-loved tales found throughout Europe – such as Briar Rose or The Gingerbread House. However, here you...