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  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

    by Vítězslav Nezval, David Short (Translator) ...
    Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood on the night of her first menstruation. Referencing Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Marquis de Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu, Nezval employs the language of the pulp serial novel to ... Read more

    $11.76 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Czech Beginner to Intermediate Course

    Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new language with Teach Yourself

    by David Short ...
    This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding audio support.- You can purchase the book and audio support as a pack (ISBN: 9781444106916)- The audio support is also sold separately (ISBN: 9781444107012)(copy and paste the ISBN number into the search bar to find these products)Are you looking for a complete course in Czech which takes you effortlessly from beginner ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Sound of the Sundial

    by Hana Andronikova ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    The Sound of the Sundial is the internationally acclaimed novel by Czech sensation Hana Andronikova, told over the course of a single day and night, but spanning three continents and much of the twentieth century.In this intimate and affecting love story about a Jewish teacher and a German-Czech builder, Andronikova sends her readers on a captivating journey through time and memory, from the Czech ... Read more

    $17.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares into Swords

    by Vladislav Vancura, Rajendra Chitnis ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    The first English-language translation of a classic Czech antiwar novel written in the wake of WWI.Originally published in 1925, Ploughshares into Swords is an expressionist antiwar novel in which Vladislav Vančura tells the story of the denizens of the Ouhrov estate in language as baroque as the manor that ties them all together. The fragmented narrative introduces the reader to such characters ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Rambling On

    An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

    by Bohumil Hrabal, Václev Kadlec ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by the time of his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation’s greatest twentieth-century writers. Hrabal’s fiction ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp

    An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by László Szigeti

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Capek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation’s greatest twentieth-century writers. Known for writing ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Why I Write?

    The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    “Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal’s later virtuosity.”—New Yorker“A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership.”—Kirkus ReviewsThis collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, “the moment when Hrabal ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Bohumil Hrabal

    A Full-Length Portrait

    by Jirí Pelán ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order),” Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most important, most translated, and most idiosyncratic Czech authors. In Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait, Jiří Pelán ... Read more

    $7.89 USD

  • Everyday Spooks

    by Karel Michal ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    Prague-born Karel Michal (1932–84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakia’s oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man, he fruitlessly cycled through a number of professions before finally turning to writing in the early 1960s. Michal’s works—which include detective fiction, historical novels, short stories, and screenplays—offer ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Rambling On

    An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by the time of his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation’s greatest twentieth-century writers. Hrabal’s fiction ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • God's Rainbow

    by Jaroslav Durych, Rajendra A. Chitnis ...
    Translated by David Short ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to prevent. Set in the Czechoslovakian borderland shortly after WWII amid the sometimes violent expulsion of the region’s German population, Jaroslav Durych’s poetic, deeply symbolic novel is a literary touchstone ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Problems of Semantics

    A Contribution to the Analysis of the Language Science

    Translated by David Short ...
    by L. Tondl ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Ladislav Tondl's insightful investigations into the language of the sciences bear directly upon some decisive points of confrontation in modern philos ophy of science and of language itself. In the decade since his Scientific Procedures was published in English (Boston Studies 11), Dr Tondl has enlarged his original monograph of 1966 on the promise, problems and achievements of modern semantics: ... Read more

    $188.09 USD