Czech studies(88)

The Chattertooth Eleven

Eduard Bass' story from 1922, a classic of Czech literature, has been published in English (Karolinum 2008). The translation, distinctive...

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, ...

Repertorium rukopisů 17. a 18. století 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...

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....

Řeč ne řeč

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

Rozhovory 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...

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 ...

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