"The four case studies provide substantial grist for those interested in generalizations about successful state building. Furthermore, specialists should find the cross-country comparisons on the development of tax regimes interesting. Summing up: recommended." – Choice on State-Building
"Filled with new information and original ideas and offering intriguing incentives for further research, this well-edited volume is not only a remarkable edition to the literature on European eugenics but provides invaluable insights into the broader currents of intellectual life in central and southeast Europe.” – Slavic Review on Blood and Homeland
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 $16.95/ €13.95 /£9.95
