Famous as the libretto for Antonín Dvořák’s opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil’s poem Rusalka is an intriguing work of literature on...
A Lyrical Fairy Tale in Three Acts
published: october 2020
recommended price: 280 czk
This book is subtitled "A Humorous – If Possible – Novella from the Ghetto." It was published in 1969 by a famous satirist from Prague, a...
A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto
published: april 2018
recommended price: 380 czk
In the terrifying reality of the Terezín fortress, children were living and coming of age in the shadow of death, which was often only a ...
published: november 2018
recommended price: 290 czk
Vladislav Vančura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language ma...
published: may 2006
recommended price: 480 czk
In Summer of Caprice (the classic novel of the Twenties that was adapted into the beloved film of the Czech New Wave in the Sixties) the ...
published: october 2016
recommended price: 280 czk
Trained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, scholar, and political and cultural activist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) dev...
published: july 2022
recommended price: 280 czk
“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.” It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and per...
published: october 2016
recommended price: 280 czk
Eduard Bass' story from 1922, a classic of Czech literature, has been published in English (Karolinum 2008). The translation, distinctive...
published: february 2009
recommended price: 390 czk
From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own lif...
published: june 2022
recommended price: 340 czk
For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-c...
published: april 2018
recommended price: 280 czk
A classical work of the 1960s Czechoslovak literature and film in a new publication of Iris Urwin Lewit’s translation. An original and re...
published: august 2019
recommended price: 280 czk
Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obskurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at...
Selected Poems and Graphic Artworks, 1925–1971
published: september 2017
recommended price: 490 czk