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

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 P...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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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)
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
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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