A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a smal...
Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete ...
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914 97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a...
Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's post...
In this compact yet informative book, former dissident, occasional politician, software developer...
The Philosophy of Living Nature focuses on the approach of the Western philosophical tradition to...
In this unusual and important new work, Miroslav Vanek interviews twelve experts on oral history ...
In 1936, following the sale of Newton's unpublished manuscripts at auction, the scientific world ...
Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech liter...
Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London-its rich diversity ...
On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offeri...
Ladislav Fuks (1923-94) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psych...