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Prague : a traveler's literary companion / edited by Paul Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Traveler's literary companion
- A Traveler's literary companion
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prague (Czech Republic)--Description and travel.
- Prague (Czech Republic).
- Czech prose literature.
- Travel.
- Czech Republic--Prague.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 242 pages : map ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Whereabouts Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- Magnificent stories by many of the finest Czech writers--including Franz Kafka, Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hasek, Egon Irwin Kisch, and others--provide fascinating cultural insights for travelers to Prague. Here are crime stories, love stories, legends, sketches, and anecdotes for anyone seeking to travel to the very heart of one of Europe's great cities. Includes a map of the city.
- Contents:
- I see a great city ... / Daniela Hodrova
- Bells / Jiri Karasek ze Lvovic
- The first vision / Gustav Meyrink
- What shall we do with it? / Jan Neruda
- The little bulldog / Karel Pecka
- American heating / Jindriska Smetanova
- The sword of St. Wencelas / Frantisek Langer
- A psychiatric mystery / Jaroslav Hasek
- The golem / Gustav Meyrink
- The legend of the old town clock / Alois Jirasek
- Description of a struggle / Franz Kafka
- G M / Gustav Meyrink
- The Hotel Pariz / Bohumil Hrabal
- The case of the washerwoman / Egon Erwin Kisch
- The magic flute / Bohumil Hrabal
- The past / Michal Ajvaz
- The receipt / Karel Capek
- Mendelssohn is on the roof / Jiri Weil
- A Prague eclogue / Jiri Kovtun
- A race through Prague / Ota Pavel
- Invasion day / Ivan Divis
- A visit to the train station / Jachym Topol
- Tenor sax solo from Washington / Josef Skvorecky
- The spirit of Prague / Ivan Klima.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Prague.
- ISBN:
- 1883513014
- 9781883513016
- OCLC:
- 31753956
- Online:
- Publisher description
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