Analyzes the historical significance of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Centering around the unique story and testimony of a Romani family, greater insight into the Lova...

Containing meticulous research of a long under-represented part of the Holocaust, this book provi...

With their courageous and engaging critique of Communism in the 1950s, these critically acclaimed...

This groundbreaking book unveils the crucial role of network science in understanding the lexical...

This collection of Cold War essays and reflections enthralls any reader seeking a pointed dissect...

An English translation of Slovak Jewish writer Leopold Lahola's collection of short stories that ...

A new translation of Egon Bondy's classic critique and parody of Communist Czechoslovakia.

Reexamines mid-60's state policies toward Czechoslovak Roma from the overlooked perspective of th...

Explores how physical space is represented and affects the work of two British novelists. Of Spac...

It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization,...

Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixt...

For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon lege...

In Fragments of Lives, Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the ...

Japanese novelist Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993) is best known for his 1966 novel 'Kuroi' ' Ame' (publi...

The history, origins and development of the government and state as an institution is an essentia...

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, 'Saturnin' was a best-seller, its gentle satire offe...

The Atlas of Religions in Czechia represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the...

St Vitus' Cathedral in Prague Castle is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coro...

Originally published in Czech in 2002 and now available in English, 'Medieval Painting in Bohemia...

The Communist regimes of Europe collapsed more than a quarter century ago, and the Third Reich fe...

Dealing with not only specific artists in the context of their national identity, but also with o...

The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles Vin Paris in 1378. T...

Hrabal s books are distinctive witness to the life of ordinary people only at first glance. In th...

This publication, written by Czech professor of art history Jan Royt, renders a vivid image of th...

'Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity.'--New Yorker

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a varie...

Josef Safařík's Seven Letters to Melin is an exploration of man's alienation from nature--and fro...

A collection of seven short stories about wierd and fantastic creatures that inhabit the strange ...

Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River...

A famous Czech humoristic novel depicting adventures of five boys from a small Czech town in the ...

The English version of the major book from Petr Wittlich, which charts the crisis and development...

Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech liter...

Written in the years 1954-57 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postw...

'Summer of Caprice,' a winning comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech writing...

Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he ...

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a...

'The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist.'--Giovanni Papini It is a max...

Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petráň an...

Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Prague has become one of Europe‿s‿and the wor...

At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague'...

The book presents to the reader the first ever English translation of short stories, so far for n...

Ladislav Fuks is an outstanding Czech writer, whose works primarily consist of psychological fict...

The Master of the T ebo Altarpiece was one of the most important Gothic artists of the internatio...

A World Apart and Other Stories: Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle

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Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, The Shop on Main Street is the story that inspired...

A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a smal...