A CZECH-ENGLISH PARALLEL-TEXT CONCISE NOVEL First published in Prague in 1922, this dark concise novel by Michal Mares (1893-1971), set in the Czechoslovakia of his day, explores, with anarchist undertones, the place of women in society. Mares is described as having developed from an early age a "dangerously profound sense of truth, justice and human freedom" (Pavel Koukal) and under Communism he became the first Czech whose writing led to expulsion from the official writers' union, the Syndicate of Czech Writers, followed by seven years in prison on political charges. With an introduction and afterword by David Short, Teaching Fellow, Czech and Slovak, University College London. "From this wretched land I greet all THOSE WHO SUFFER, who live everywhere, even in prosperous countries, everywhere where the sun of God shines down on womankind." Jantar Publishing aims to publish a variety of Central and East European works of literature that are in their way "trapped in amber" and awaiting discovery.

Andelickarka - The Angel-Maker: A Czech-English Parallel-Text Concise Novel

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Mares, Michal

Words, Language & Grammar

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Prague, I See a City...

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hodrová, Daniela

Fantasy

Kytice was inspired by Erben's love of Slavonic myth and the folklore surrounding such creatures as The Noonday Witch and The Water Goblin. First published in 1853, these poems, along with Mácha's Máj and Němcová's Babička, are the best loved and most widely read 19th century Czech classics. Published here in the expanded 1861 version, the collection has moved generations of artists and composers, including Dvořák, Smetana and Janáček. "There is no such degree of precision, clarity and truth as is found in The Water-Goblin" - Leoš Janáček Translated and with an introduction by Susan Reynolds, Curator of the Czech, Slovak and Lusatian Collections at the British Library.

Kytice: Czech & English Bilingual Edition

Literature & Fiction

Erben, Karel Jaromír

Poetry

First published in 1853, these poems are among the best-loved and most widely read 19th century Czech classics. Kytice was inspired by Erben's love of Slavonic myth and the folklore surrounding such creatures as the Noonday Witch and the Water Goblin. Ex

Kytice

This novel about the twentieth century begins when time was linear and ends when the notion of progress becomes less well defined. "It strikes me that Josef Brehme lived in an epoch when time still proceeded in a straight line from the past to the future

Three Faces of an Angel

Jiri Pehe

Literary

Daniela Hodrova shares her unique perception of Prague, through playful poetic prose, and by imaginatively blending historical and cultural motifs with autobiographical moments. A Kingdom of Souls is the first volume of this author's literary journey - a

A Kingdom of Souls (Prague City of Torment)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Prague, I see a city... is a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting, and journeys in search of her true identity. Suffused with the atmosphere immediately following the end of the Communist regime, Hodrova's novel is a conscious addition to the tradition of Prague literary texts by, for example, Karel Hynek Macha, Jakub Arbes, Gustav Meyrink, and Franz Kafka, who present the city as a hostile living creature, or as a labyrinthine place of magic and mystery, in which the individual human being may easily get lost. Translated by David Short.

Set in Stalinist-era Central Europe, GraveLarks is a triumphant intellectual thriller navigating the fragile ambiguity between sado-masochism, black humor, political satire, murder, and hope. Zderad, a noble misfit, investigates a powerful party figure i

GraveLarks

Křesadlo, Jan

Agnieszka Dale's characters want to find greatness, but discover greatness isn't their thing. But what is? And what is great anyway? In "Peek-a-boo," a mother breastfeeds her child via Skype, at work. In "Hello Poland," a man reunites with his daughter i

Fox Season: And Other Short Stories

Dale, Agnieszka

A wildly comic story about the fate of a Czech family from the 1960s onwards. At turns humorous, ironic, and sentimental, an engaging portrait of their attempts to flee from history (meaning the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia) - or at least to ignore it as long as possible. The author depicts his parents' life stories and also his own adolescence with humorous hyperbole. The account focuses on the difficulties of the father, an idiosyncratic workaholic whose efforts to protect his family regularly involve losing his dignity. At the same time, the extraordinarily gifted Kvido, an aspiring writer, narrates his own teenage troubles, in a world that is not of his own choosing.

Bliss Was It in Bohemia

Viewegh, Michal

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Andelickarka - The Angel-Maker: A Czech-English Parallel-Text Concise Novel

Prague, I See a City...

Kytice: Czech & English Bilingual Edition

Kytice

Three Faces of an Angel

A Kingdom of Souls (Prague City of Torment)

Prague, I See a City...

GraveLarks

Fox Season: And Other Short Stories

Bliss Was It in Bohemia