Prague Tales
Jan Neruda
Translated by Michael Henry Heim
With an introduction by Ivan Klima
Prague Tales 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.
"How often is a reviewer privileged to make so marvellous
a discovery?" - The Spectator
1993
368 pages
ISBN 978-963-9116-23-8 paperback $17.95 / €13.95
/ £12.99
Published in the series:
Central
European Classics
ISSN 1418-0162
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