The first installment in Karolinum's new Václav Havel Series--which aims to continue the philosop...

Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet 'Magor' (which translat...

A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV.Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy ...

Analyzes the historical significance of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

The first publication of a charming fieldwork memoir by a giant of legal anthropology.

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 world'...

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

From his panoramic views of Prague to his enigmatic still lifes, photographer Josef Sudek (1896-1...

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 collection of short stories by Czech women from the turn of the twentieth century.

Springtide

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...

In 1922, the same year that saw the establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, a for...

Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places--and even in the smallest ...

Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete ...

Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as 'one of the great prose stylists o...