Prague Tales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neruda, Jan, 1834-1891.

Contributor:

Heim, Michael Henry.

Series:

CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)

Standardized Title:

Povídky malostranske. English

Language:

Czech

English

Subjects (All):

Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 1996.

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.

Contents:

A Week in a Quiet House 1

I In Night Clothes

II Most of the House Begins to Stir

III At Home with the Landlord

IV A Lyrical Monologue

V Bachelorhood is Bliss

VI A Manuscript and a Storm Cloud

VII Fragments from the Notes of a Scrivener

VIII At the Funeral

IX Further Proof of the Pudding

X In a Moment of Agitation

XI A First Attempt at Fiction

XII Five Minutes after the Recital

XIII After the Draw

XIV A Happy Family

XV The Week Draws to a Close

Mr Rysanek and Mr Schlegel 108

A Beggar Brought to Ruin 123

The Tender Heart of Mrs Rus 134

Evening Chitchat 142

Doctor Spoiler 157

The Water Sprite 167

How Mr Vorel Broke in His Meerschaum 176

The Three Lilies 184

The St Wenceslas Mass 188

How It Came to Pass 204

Written This Year on All Souls' Day 228.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-72145-1

963-386-465-8

9781003721451

OCLC:

655041009