Czech studies(100)

Čítanka mluvené češtiny

A Reader of Spoken Czech presents a selection of transcribed recordings from the Prague Spoken Corpus (in Czech abbreviated as PMK), whic...

Everyday Spooks

With famous Everyday Spooks (orig. publ. 1961), Prague-born Karel Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that...

Ďáblové, ženy a národ

This selection of essays and treatises by Robert B. Pynsent, one of the most renowned foreign experts on Czech studies (since 1991, a pro...

Výbor z úvah o české literatuře

Valenční slovník českých sloves

Valency, that is "the number and character of places (arguments), which a verb (...) ties to itself" (Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Czech, ...

Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp

The book is a novel-interview initiated by the Hungarian journalist, writer and anti-communist activist based in Slovakia László Szigeti....

Repertorium rukopisů 17. a 18. století z muzejních sbírek v Čechách II (K–O)

This publication is a follow-up to an extensive project of an Inventory of 17th and 18th Centuries Manuscripts, whose first part was publ...

We Were a Handful

A famous Czech humoristic novel depicting adventures of five boys from a small Czech town in the form of a child's diary written by Petr ...

Řeč ne řeč

An interview with prominent Czech poet Karel Šiktanc (1928–2021) about his life and poetry. Over a two year period Karel Šiktanc wrote hi...

Rozhovor Jaromíra Slomka s Karlem Šiktancem

Frazeologie a idiomatika česká a obecná. Czech and General Phraseology

This book provides the first self-contained and systematic overview of the whole field of phraseology and idiomatics within a wider lingu...

Frekvenční slovník mluvené češtiny

This Frequency Dictionary of Spoken Czech is the very first dictionary of its kind, presenting authentic spoken Czech which is contrasted...

Kapitoly o českém verši

Miroslav Červenka (1932–2005) was one of the most important personalities of the Czech literary science of the second half of the 20th ce...

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vančura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language ma...