CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics). Prague Tales / / Jan Neruda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Neruda, Jan,
• MitwirkendeR: Heim, Michael Henry,; Klíma, Ivan,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)

This 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Week in a Quiet House -- Mr Ryšánek and Mr Schlegel -- A Beggar Brought to Ruin -- The Tender Heart of Mrs Rus -- Evening Chitchat -- Doctor Spoiler -- The Water Sprite -- How Mr Vorel Broke in His Meerschaum -- The Three Lilies -- The St Wenceslas Mass -- How It Came to Pass -- Written This Year on All Souls’ Day -- Figures -- Notes -- Central European Classics