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CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics). Prague Tales / Jan Neruda.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)Publisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789633864654
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.8/6/3/4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Week in a Quiet House -- Mr Ryšánek and Mr Schlegel -- A Beggar Brought to Ruin -- The Tender Heart of Mrs Rus -- Evening Chitchat -- Doctor Spoiler -- The Water Sprite -- How Mr Vorel Broke in His Meerschaum -- The Three Lilies -- The St Wenceslas Mass -- How It Came to Pass -- Written This Year on All Souls’ Day -- Figures -- Notes -- Central European Classics
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Week in a Quiet House -- Mr Ryšánek and Mr Schlegel -- A Beggar Brought to Ruin -- The Tender Heart of Mrs Rus -- Evening Chitchat -- Doctor Spoiler -- The Water Sprite -- How Mr Vorel Broke in His Meerschaum -- The Three Lilies -- The St Wenceslas Mass -- How It Came to Pass -- Written This Year on All Souls’ Day -- Figures -- Notes -- Central European Classics

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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