Malá Strana stories. A week in a quiet house
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a central figure of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School." His prolific output, encompassing both journalism and poetry, profoundly shaped the literary landscape of his era. Neruda masterfully captured the life and spirit of his generation.







This is a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bittersweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth-century realist, the Charles Dickens of a Prague becoming ever more aware of itself as a Czech rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic by a writer whose influence has been acknowledged by generations of Czech writers, including Ivan Klíma, who contributes an introduction to this new translation.