Česká beletrie v anglickém jazyce (Czech Fiction in English)

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kniha "Metamorphosis" spadá do žánru Cizojazyčná literatura. Autorem je Franz Kafka. Kniha je brožovaná. Obsahuje 95 stran. Jedná se o počin nakladatelství "Arcturus Publishing" z roku 2025. Přejeme příjemné čtení.

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...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can...

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...