fiction(77)

Klapzubova jedenáctka

This already classic story by Eduard Bass from 1922 tells the story of father Klapzuba, who has raised his eleven sons as phenomenal socc...

Rambling On (paperback)

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czec...

An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hora Zlodějka

The five fairy tales presented in this book, written by Karel Šiktanc and named after one of them, are accompanied by similarly brilliant...

Engel des Erinnerns / Anděl vzpomínek

Das deutsch-tschechische Lesebuch Engel des Erinnerns stellt fünf deutsche Gegenwartstexte im Original und in der Übersetzung von jungen ...

Deutsch-tschechisches Lesebuch / Německo česká čítanka

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia’s postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Jo...

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 ...

Un été capricieux

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 ...

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Ladislav Fuks is an outstanding Czech writer, whose works primarily consist of psychological fiction focusing on the themes of anxiety an...

Rambling On

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czec...

An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Rukověť pábitelského učně

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turnin...

Povídky

Saturnin - rusky

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best-seller. This is entirely appropriate, for while Saturnin draws on a trad...

Un'estate capricciosa

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