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Prague Tales ia a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, and bitter-sweet 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 realist--considered by many to be the Charles Dickens of nineteenth-century Czechoslovakia. Through Neruda's writings, the reader can fully appreciate Prague's ever increasing awareness of itself as a Czech, rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic collection by a writer whose influence hass been acknowledged by generations of writers, including Capek, Kafka, Kundera, Skvorecky, and Ivan Klima, one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary Czech writers, who has contributed an Introduction to this new translation.
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Prague Tales, Jan Neruda
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Prague Tales
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jan Neruda
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1858660580
- ISBN13
- 9781858660585
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Czech Literature, Love, Classics, Short Stories, Stories, 19th century, Adapted for Film, Prague, Czech Republic, Required Reading, Czech Short Stories, Malá Strana (Prague)
- Original title
- Povídky malostranské
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- Prague Tales ia a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, and bitter-sweet 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 realist--considered by many to be the Charles Dickens of nineteenth-century Czechoslovakia. Through Neruda's writings, the reader can fully appreciate Prague's ever increasing awareness of itself as a Czech, rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic collection by a writer whose influence hass been acknowledged by generations of writers, including Capek, Kafka, Kundera, Skvorecky, and Ivan Klima, one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary Czech writers, who has contributed an Introduction to this new translation.