Čeští autoři v anglickém jazyce (Czech authors in English)

Four years planning and preparing, this new edition features 200 pages of Erben's poetry with illustrations by Míla Fürstová; an introduction by Professor Geoffrey Chew explaining how these poems inspired composers like Antonín Dvořák to compose his symphonic poems; 13 scary folk-tales written as poems; Erben's...

Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind. In time they rebel, laying siege to the strongholds of their former masters in a global war for supremacy. R.U.R., or Rossum's...

One of the most 'original and compelling pieces of political writing' to come out of the Eastern Bloc, published in Vintage Classics on its fortieth anniversary. Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a...

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...

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...

An invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity from one of Europe's most celebrated literary stars, the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and...

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected if temporary reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation. In the years since, the novel has been hailed as a classic of Czech literature, and this translation makes it available to...

Gleich anderen europäischen Nationen erfreut sich auch das tschechische Volk eines seit Jahrhunderten liebevoll bewahrten Märchenschatzes. Manche dieser Märlein erscheinen uns fremd und exotisch, andere Motive tragen dagegen vertraute Züge. Es ist dem Sammlerfleiß von Bo?ena N?mcová (1820-1862) und Karel Jaromír Erbe...

A beautiful book that will be enjoyed by both adults and children. HB in English. This "family" book for children and adults is meant not only for persons who didn't pay attention in school (who will learn some surpising information about human history), but also for the entertainment of history buffs. (The more...

From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener s life. First published in Prague in 1929, The Gardener s Year combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a...