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Does God Exist? by Mark Corner 9781498223430
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498223430Author Mark CornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint -
The Pied Piper by Viktor Dyk
Booksplease Price: £9.55For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for his story of a... -
Summer of Caprice by Vladislav Vancura
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the complexities of... -
Saturnin Zdenek Jirotka 9788024632889
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected if temporary reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation. In the years... -
We Were a Handful by Karel Polacek
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek at the height... -
Behind the Lines: Bugulma and Other Stories by Jaroslav Hasek
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI soldier... -
Unsound Siblings Egon Bondy 9788024656274
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £16.93A new translation of Egon Bondy's classic critique and parody of Communist Czechoslovakia. Bondy's merry utopia, or rather anti-utopia, was written during the bleakest years of "normalization" in... -
Behind the Lines: Bugulma and Other Tales by Jaroslav Hasek
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £16.16Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel "The Good Soldier Svejk", a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant soldier in World... -
Of Mice and Mooshaber by Ladislav Fuks
Booksplease Price: £15.57Ladislav Fuks (1923-94) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. Fuks is best known for...