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I served the King of England / Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson.

LIBRA Special PG5039.18.R2 O2713 1990
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Genre:
  • Fiction.
  • History.
  • Picaresque literature.
Penn Provenance:
  • Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
241 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:
First Vintage International edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Vintage International, [1990]
Summary:
A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.
Notes:
  • Translation of: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále.
  • "Originally published in hardcover by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., in 1989"--Title page verso.
  • "Vintage books."
ISBN:
  • 0679727868
  • 9780679727866
OCLC:
21594777
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