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.
- ISBN10 9639116238
- ISBN13 9789639116238
- Publish Date 15 April 1996 (first published 5 August 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country HU
- Imprint Central European University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 368
- Language English