V. Čutta Books

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in 1875 in Chicago, Illinois. Although Burroughs wrote in many genres he is best known for creating the jungle hero Tarzan. Burroughs began writing for pulp fiction magazines and in 1912 he published Tarzan of the Apes. Thuvia is the fourth book in the Martian adventure series. Carthoris is in love with the princess Thuvia. Astok the Prince of Dusar steals her and Carthoris attempts to follow her across Barsoom. On his journey he encounters many strange and fascinating otherworldly creatures.

The Czech author Božena Němcová (1820-1862), born in Vienna, paints an entirely unsentimental portrait of the country habits and customs of Bohemia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and depicts the people she encountered during her childhood: teachers, maids, farm workers, millers, foresters, priests, to name but a few. The central character of this story, set in Eastern Bohemia, is a grandmother, full of simple wisdom, goodness and love, who personifies an ideal of maternal care. The Prošek family live in this country idyll but their father’s work means that he is compelled to spend a large part of the year in the imperial city of Vienna. Thus, their grandmother is brought home to look after the children and the property. This is the background against which the author unfolds the most important prose work in Czech literature and creates “one of the best female characters in world literature”.

Malým čtenářům pohádky nejmilejší vypravuje L. Tesařová. Vlk a kůzlátka, Almužna, Jak Honza pracoval, Bratříček a sestřička, Jak šla zvířátka do světa, Sněženka a sedm trpaslíků, O skleněném vrchu, Jak Honza prodával, Stolečku, prostři se!, Zlatovláska, Kocour v botách, O Pecivalovi, Sedm jednou ranou zabil, Boží trest.