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The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.49The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's moving homage to Vladimir Boudnik, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet... -
Cutting It Short by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that'In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska,... -
Gaps: A Novel by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810125506Author Bohumil HrabalFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Northwestern University... -
Harlequin's Millions: A Novel by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Best Translated Book Award (Fiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780981955735Author Bohumil HrabalFormat... -
In-House Weddings by Bohumil Hrabal 9780810124301
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Inspired by "Mrs. Tolstoy and Mrs. Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have now been published in Prague," Bohumil Hrabal decided to produce his own autobiographical work, ostensibly... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an... -
Mr Kafka Bohumil Hrabal 9781784871178
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his... -
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway... -
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal 9780811228954
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.74In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his... -
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal 9780241752142
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.11Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries – about his virginity, his love for the... -
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers,... -
The Death of Mr. Baltisberger by Bohumil Hrabal 9780810127012
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal's considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising... -
Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $10.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788090217195Author Bohumil HrabalFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher... -
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal 9780811216876
Booksplease Price: $16.19First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times),... -
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal eSkvoreckay 9780810112780
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Tender Barbarian: Pedagogic Texts by Bohumil Hrabal 9788086264523
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264523Author Bohumil HrabalFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher... -
Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab Bohumil Hrabal 9788024632865
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made... -
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous... -
Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab Bohumil Hrabal 9788024623160
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.98Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly... -
Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait Jiri Pelan 9788024639093
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $14.04Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip,... -
Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.38Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present the Czech master Bohumil Hrabal at the height of his... -
Why I Write?: The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.36This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Mar chal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing." Taken from the... -
I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL'Our very best writer today' Milan KunderaSparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable... -
I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell by Bohumil Hrabal 9781529976472
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City Alfred Thomas 9780226795409
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a... -
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity,... -
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.67'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at the bottom of society, he lives a... -
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars Joseph Roth 9781783788477
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William Boyd In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through... -
Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Paul Wilson 9781883513016
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.98Travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek, eavesdrop on... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family. ... -
Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History by Derek Sayer
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.18A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural... -
Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History Derek Sayer 9780691264554
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural... -
Dvorak in Love: A Light-Hearted Dream by Josef Skvorecky 9780393305487
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $25.76Here is a wonderfully imagined picture of a little known period in American musical history. In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Antonin Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia... -
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Literature and Film from East Europe's Forgotten "Second World": Essays of Invitation by Professor Gordana P. Crnkovic 9781501370656
Booksplease Price: $123.18Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces... -
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Literature and Film from East Europe's Forgotten "Second World": Essays of Invitation by Professor Gordana P. Crnkovic 9781501370694
Booksplease Price: $41.10Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces... -
Samizdat Past+Present Tomas Glanc 9788024640334
Booksplease Price: $24.03Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature-the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others-has, in fact, just recently... -
Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change by Daniel Just 9781032290157
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and... -
Jozef Ignác Bajza, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences: An edition with commentary of the first Slovak novel: 2025 Dobrota Pucherová 9781836242529
Booksplease Price: $126.33This volume marks the first translation into another language of the first Slovak novel, Rene, or: A Young Man's Adventures and Experiences, published in 1783-1785. At a time when the Slovaks lived... -
Czech: An Essential Grammar by James Naughton
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $48.79Czech: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Czech. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar...